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Dr. Yuva Priya M A

Assistant Professor

  • School/College

    Faculty of Pharmacy

  • Department

    Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Dr. M. K. Yuvapriya is working as Assistant Professor in the department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in faculty of Pharmacy, RUAS. She has obtained her B Pharm & M Pharm in Pharmaceutical Analysis and interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Analysis with CSIR GATE JRF Fellowship. She did full time research focusing on peptide & peptidomimics design, characterization and Bioactivity. She has over five years of teaching experience. She is proficient in teaching modules of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Quality Assurance, Pharmaceutical Organic chemistry , Pharmaceutical Inorganic chemistry & Principles of Drug Discovery.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D.

    Central Leather Research Institute, Madras University, 2021

  • M.Pharm

    Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Pharmacy, Dr. M. G. R. Medical University, 2009

  • B.Pharm

    K. M. College of Pharmacy, Dr. M. G. R. Medical University, 2006

Experience

Total Years of Experience

11 Years

Teaching Experience: 6 Years

(M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences)

Industry Experience: 5 Years

Central Leather Research Institute (Research Experience)

Training Experience (With Topics)

Gained expertise in NMR operation & interpretation

  • Design of Anticancer & Antimicrobial short peptides and peptidomimics
  • Synthesis & characterization of peptidomimics
  • Exploring the Bioactivity of peptidomimics

  • Received Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - GATE Junior Research Fellowship (CSIR GATE JRF) for pursuing Ph.D. Programme.
  • Awarded First Rank in Academics in BPharm at Silver Jubilee Celebration in K. M. College of Pharmacy

International Conference Papers
  • Poster Presentation titled “Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Biological evaluation of beta aminoacid conjugates” at IIT- Chennai in Medicinal Chemistry Conference held in 2013.
  • Oral presentation in World congress on infectious diseases & Antibiotics titled “ Novel β3 phenyl β-unusual aminoacid as antibiotic scaffold at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru in 2018.
International Journal Papers
  • Yuvapriya MK, Selvakumar P, Balachandran C (2017) Novel synthetic unnatural amino-acids via acid hydrolysis of diazepinones as synthons for antibiotics, American Journal of Pharm tech Research, ISSN:2249 - 3387
  • Geetha S, Yuva Priya MK, Chandralekha K, Thennarasu S, Lakshmi S (2016). N-[3‑Methyl-1-phenyl- 1-(1H-tetrazol-1-yl)butan-2-yl]acetamide IUCr data reports ISSN:2414 - 3146.

  • Registered Pharmacist in the Tamil Nadu Pharmacy Council.

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ADDRESS

Vidya Soudha (Heritage Block)

M. S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences,

Gnanagangothri Campus

New BEL Road

MSR Nagar, Bangalore - 560054