Dr. Ajai Prakash Gupta
Principal Technical Officer & Associate Professor AcSIR
Drug Testing Laboratory (QMI)
India
Biography
More than 32 years of post-M. Sc. experience in Analytical Chemistry of Natural Products and Pharmaceuticals. Expertise in method development, identification, validation, and quantification of bio active constitutions of microbes, medicinal plants, and tissue culture samples using sophisticated types of equipment like GCMS, UPLC, HPTLC, LC/MS/MS, LC-MS-TOF, and HPLC. His area of expertise also includes analysis of Pharmo-kinetics & Pharmo-dynamics (PKPD) samples, drug metabolites, and their mechanistic studies. Published more than 120 research papers in journals of National and International repute, 10 best paper awards, 37 invited lectures, attended 26 conferences national & International and 11 book chapters. Attended several related courses/workshops involving awareness program for NABL assessors on ISO/IEC 17025:2005 to ISO/IEC 17025:2017, Chandigarh, NABL conclave, New Delhi, total Quality control & ISO 9000, awareness program on ISO 9001:2000 QMS, at IHBT, Palampur (HP), Internal Auditors Course on ISO 17025:1999 QMS, at IHBT, Palampur, 12 days training at Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, Ghaziabad, National Conference on Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), at CSIR-Industrial Toxicological Research Centre, Lucknow, and workshop on Validation of Analytical methods FDA and EU, Anacon, Mumbai. He has attended International Symposium on Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics (DMPK) at NIPER, Mohali, Indo-USP workshop on Pharmacopoeial Monographs of Ayurvedic/Herbal Medicines organized by PCIM & H and USP, the USA at Delhi, NABL 5 days Assessor training on Laboratory Assessors Course as per ISO/IEC 17025:2005 at NITTR, Chandigarh organized by NABL, Gurgaon. Attended training on Q-TOF micro small molecules operator training course, at Manchester (UK), training GC-MS Techniques, Troubles-shooting and GCMS solution in GCMS-QP2010", at Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) Pvt Ltd, Singapore, training at Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission in Analytical Division, IPC, Ghaziabad, advance workshop on Patent Strategies, at Human Resource Development Center (CSIR), Ghaziabad.
Research Interest
Traditional Medicine, Natural products