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Dr. Virupaksha Ajit Bastikar
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Biotechnology
Amity Institute of Biotechnology (AIB)
Qualifications
Ph. D., Master of Science (Bioinformatics)
Experience
13 Years
Research Interests
1) Working as a Computational Medicinal Chemist with primary expertise in the areas of Molecular Modeling, Proteomics, Ligand-based and Structure based drug design.
2) A Principal Researcher and Consultant with in-depth exposure in the field of Drug Discovery, Therapeutic Application, Molecular design and lead Discovery ;
3) Proficient at developing novel ways to implement and integrate computational tools; applied acquaintance of lead optimization, development and discovery.
4) Competency to work with a wide variety of computational chemistry software’s like – Vlife-MDS, TRIPOS- Sybyl, Schrodinger, MOE, Accelrys and techniques associated with spectrometry, chromatography.
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11
Professional Affiliations
Registered Pharmacist of Maharashtra State Council, India
Professional Activities
Coordinating Member of the EU approved Consortium ‘Daksh Foundation’ for FP7 with PIC-972461764
Other Achievements
1) Best poster award in recognition of scientific work for “GQSAR analysis of camptothecin analogs”, presented at VLife Sciences annual award function held on 1st June 2013 at Pune.
2) Awarded European Union’s Erasmus Mundus “Mobility for life fellowship” for Research work for the duration of August 2010 – September 2011.
Contact Information
vabastikar@mum.amity.edu
Amity Institute of Biotechnology (AIB)