Clinical Pharmacology & Biopharmaceutics
Open Access

Biography

Vikas Kumar is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology in the Department of Pharmaceutics in Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India. He completed his Ph.D in 2001 and started his career as a Scientist C. He has differennt publications like Paper (National & International), Abstracts (national & International), Books and Chapters in Books.

Research Interest

Ultimate goal of his research efforts is to discover therapeutic hits and leads suitable for drug development purpose, or for better standardization of therapeutically used herbal extracts. For such purposes, efforts are made to identify bioactive constituent(s) of plant extracts and to clarify their molecular mechanisms of actions. Therapeutic areas of my major interest are: 1) mental health problems, 2) metabolic disorders and 3) co-morbidities encountered in patients with these disorders. In short, his major research interest is to be able to translate traditionally known medicinal uses of herbs in terms of modern concepts of evidence based medicine. Knowledge and know how evolving from efforts made to achieve this goal is necessary for triggering the interest of rapidly growing Indian pharmaceutical industry in proper exploitation of herbs for health care purposes around the globe.

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Publications

The Yellow Fever Outbreak in Global Perspective is Serious and of Great Concern

Therapeutic Targets for Diabetes Mellitus: An Update

Prashant Swapnil, Mukesh Meena, Vikas Kumar and Jyoti Goutam

Research Article: Epidemiology (Sunnyvale) 2017, 7: 331

DOI: 10.4172/2161-1165.1000331

Antidepressant-like Activity of Andrographis paniculata in Type-2 Diabetic Rats

Nivedita Tiwari, Ajit Kumar Thakur, Vinay Kumar, Amitabha Dey and Vikas Kumar

Review Article: Clin Pharmacol Biopharm 2014, 3:117

DOI: 10.4172/2167-065X.1000117

Perspective of Andrographis paniculata in Neurological Disorders

Ajit Kumar Thakur, Shyam Sunder Chatterjee and Vikas Kumar

Research Article: Clinic Pharmacol Biopharmaceut 2014, S2

DOI: 10.4172/2167-065X.S2-003

Vikas Kumar, Ajit Kumar Thakur and Shyam Sunder Chatterjee

Mini Review: Clinic Pharmacol Biopharmaceut 2014, S2

DOI: 10.4172/2167-065X.S2-005