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Dr. Yuva Priya M A
Assistant Professor
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School/College
Faculty of Pharmacy
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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 Experience11 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.