Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh College of Pharmacy, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, India

Dr. Ajmer Singh Grewal, Professor (Pharmaceutical Chemistry), Guru Gobind Singh College of Pharmacy, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana (India), is having academic and research experience of 13+ years in medicinal chemistry. He had completed PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in the subject area of Computational and Medicinal Chemistry from I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab (India) in 2020. His present areas of research include structure-based drug design and medicinal chemistry of MMP2 and MMP9 inhibitors as anticancer agents, antibacterial drug resistance (NDM-1), GK activators as anti-diabetic agents, AR inhibitors for diabetic complications, PPAR agonists for metabolic syndrome, multi-potent anti-Alzheimer’s agents, selective PDE-4 & -7 inhibitors as anti-inflammatory agents and environmental chemistry. He owns to his credit more than 100 publications in national and international journals of repute, 25 book chapters, 20 books, 6 patents and 3 designs. He serves as a reviewer for reputed international journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, SAGE, and Frontiers. He is a life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE). He had worked on various sophisticated analytical instruments including UV-Vis and FTIR spectrophotometer, Flash chromatography, and HPLC; and also, on various molecular modeling softwares including ChemSketch, ChemDraw and Marvin Sketch; Open Babel and Frog2 for structure optimization; PyMOL for molecular graphics, Glide (Schrodinger), AutoDock Tools, AutoDock Vina, Discovery Studio (Dassault Systemes BIOVIA), Omega and Open Eye for in silico molecular docking studies.