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Dr. Shwetha K
Assistant Professor
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School/College
Faculty of Pharmacy
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Department
Department of Pharmaceutics
Dr. Shwetha K works in the capacity of Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, with a teaching experience of more than 13 years. Her educational accomplishments include a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree, Master of Pharmacy in Pharmaceutics from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences and Doctoral degree from M.S.Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences. She is actively involved in teaching and mentoring B. Pharm, Pharm. D, M. Pharm and Pharma MBA students. Her research interests include development of of functional biomaterials for female contraception, wound management, and cosmetic applications along with the formulation of novel drug delivery systems for synthetic therapeutic agents and herbal activities
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics
Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, 2024
- Advance Diploma in Pharmaceutical Product Management and Drug Regulatory Affairs (Dual Specialization)
NCK Pharma Solution Private Limited, Bangalore, 2015
- Master of Pharmacy in Pharmaceutics
Government College of Pharmacy affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, 2012
- Bachelor of Pharmacy
National College of Pharmacy affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, 2009
Experience
Total Years of Experience13 years 6 months
Academic Experience
- 13 years 6 months in the Faculty of Pharmacy
Training Experience
- Completed the following online courses from Coursera platform:
- Pricing strategy organized by IE Business School
- Drug Development organized by University of California, San Diego
- Drug Commercialization organized by University of California, San Diego
- Completed online course from Udemy on Tyoosis Patent Drafting course for pharmaceutical inventions organized by Monk Akarshala
- Attended AICTE Sponsored Online Quality improvement programme on ‘Current trends in formulation development and quality assurance’ during 23rd Nov - 08th Dec 2020 organized by KLE College of Pharmacy, Belgavi, Karnataka.
- Certificate course on ‘Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics’, conducted by Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (SSX), 2021, India
- Cloud-based Hands-on Workshop on Molecular Docking, Pharmacophore Modeling, and Machine Learning organized by the Bioinformatics Division, ICMR – National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida and Schrodinger Inc.
- Vaginal contraceptives
- Hemostatic formulations
- Herbal activities
- Cosmetics / cosmeceuticals
- Wound healing
- Contributed chapters to the textbook "Computational Modeling in Pharmaceutical Science' (First Edition-2024, ublisher: Nirali Prakashan)
- Sharon Furtado, Shwetha Krishnamurthy, Sangavi C and Sindhu Abraham*. “Stability issues and probable approaches of Polysaccharide - PEGylated nanocarriers”. In: Pranav Kumar Prabhakar, Neeraj Mishra and Sumel Ashique (eds.) PEGylated Nanocarrier for Targeted Drug Delivery, (433–460) © 2026 Scrivener Publishing LLC Wiley
- Sindhu Abraham, Shwetha K and Sharon Furtado (2026). “Type of Vaccines and their Preparation”. In: Anilkumar Parambath, Deepanjan Datta (eds) Nanotechnology empowered vaccine delivery. Springer Nature
- Received Best Paper Award for the at 18th International Conference on ‘Trace Elements in Man and Animals’ held during 8-12 November 2024
- Recipient of Dr. Narasimha Murthy Award instituted by American Association of Government College of Pharmacy Alumni- New York, for the best research proposal
- State 10th rank in Karnataka PGCET 2010 for admission to M. Pharm
Conference Presentations: 18
Publications (Indexed and others): 22
- Life member of Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI)
- Life member of Karnataka State Pharmacy Council
- No. of Patents Filed – 06
- No. of Patents Granted: -01
- “A Method and Composition of a Pharmaceutical Excipient Using Calcium Carbonate” Indian Patent No: 380409
Grants
- Secured a seed grant of Rs. INR 3,50,000/- (Three Lakhs Fifty Thousand Rupees Only) as Principal Investigator under Department of Sponsored Research, Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences for the research project titled “A multifunctional, biomimetic, bilayered piscean collagen scaffold to combat diabetic wounds” during 2023-2025
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