Specialization
Drug Design, Medicinal Chemistry and Process chemistry
M. Pharm., Ph.D.
Email Id
ashish.kanhed@nmims.edu
Phone No.
022-42332000 (Extn- 2029)
5.3 years (2.5 Years- R&D Industry; 8 months-PDF; 2.2 years-Academic).
He has obtained his PhD from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in year 2015-16. Post PhD he has worked as Research Associate and Senior Research Associate at Navin Saxena Research and Technology Pvt. Ltd. (Research center of Rusan Pharma) in API and CADD department, where his work area was Narcotic API process development, Non-narcotic NCE design and synthesis and reaction process optimization on Continuous Flow Reactors (CFR). He also was a post-doctoral Fellow at University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, South Africa (March to Nov. 2018) where the work area was design of novel computational models for the discovery of Hits against Tuberculosis, HIV and KSP target in Cancer treatment and their synthesis. Apart from these Dr. Kanhed has also worked as lecturer at Rahul Dharkar College of Pharmacy, Mumbai University. Duration- 1st January 2011 to 31st January 2012. He is associated with SPPSPTM, NMIMS University, Mumbai Campus since July 2019.
Interest areas:
• NCE Design and Synthesis (Alzheimer, Tuberculosis, Hypertension, HIV, Cancer): Development of Novel Computational models for the Identification of hits.
• API process development, Process optimization and process validation.
• Characterization and data interpretation of synthesized molecules using various analytical tools such as 1H NMR, 13C NMR, Mass Spectra, and HPLC etc.
• Reaction setup using Continuous Flow Reactor (CFR).
• Computer Aided Drug Design: using the computational software such as, Schrodinger, Accelrys Discovery Studio, 4D-LQTA, Derek Nexus, Pipeline Pilot, TOPKAT, BioSolveIT, Sybyl, Autodoc, Gromacs, Amber etc.
Research
• Publications – Total number 25 (International-24, National- 01)
Conferences/Workshops/Seminars attended- 22
Academic activities
He has guided 02 M. Pharm. students for their research projects.
Awards
Professional Memberships
Registered Pharmacist at Maharashtra State Pharmacy Council.
Recent Publications:
LC-MS/MS facility at the SPPSPTM
Dean Interview in Careers360 magazine June 2018 issue