Atul Kumar is a synthetic organic chemist, Professor & Chief Scientist at Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) and Chairperson Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division

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(CSIR-CDRI) at

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at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Raebareli.

Academic work

Kumar has about 24 years experience in

drug design Drug design, often referred to as rational drug design or simply rational design, is the inventive process of finding new medications based on the knowledge of a biological target. The drug is most commonly an organic small molecule that acti ...

, medicinal chemistry and Green Chemistry Dr.Kumar's major contributions are invention of Anti- osteoporosis Drug candidate CDRI-99/373 (CENTHANK), which is an currently in

phase 1 clinical trial The phases of clinical research are the stages in which scientists conduct experiments with a health intervention to obtain sufficient evidence for a process considered effective as a medical treatment. For drug development, the clinical phases ...

and NCE Anti-cancer Compound CDRI-S-007-1235 is currently in Pre-clinical stage.

References

External links

Official website at CDRI
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