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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
She has over nine years of teaching experience. She is the recipient of seed money grant from Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences. she has guided UG & PG research projects. She guides both UG & PG students in getting internships and projects from companies.
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 Experience14 Years
Teaching Experience: 6 Years
(M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences)
Industry Experience: 5 Years
Central Leather Research Institute (Research Experience)
Conference Presentations
Poster presentation at 74th IPC (2025) titled “Design, Solid phase Synthesis, characterisation and biological evaluation of beta amino acid anticancer peptidomimetics”
Training Experience (With Topics)
- Industrial perspective in Analytical methods and Hands-on training on Chemometrics Analysis, 17th to 18th July 2025, Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore, India
- 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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