Seema Bhatnagar (born: Seema

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) is an

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, working in the field of

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. She primarily works on synthetic chemistry approaches for targeted delivery of anticancer drugs in

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Education

Seema Bhatnagar completed her B.Sc. in Chemistry, Biology and Zoology (1992), followed by M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry (1994) from

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, Lucknow. She did her Ph.D. in Chemistry (1999) at

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, Lucknow and thesis executed under the doctoral advisor of Amiya Prasad Bhaduri.

Career

Bhatnagar has been associated with research and development in the field of drug discovery and worked with various government and non-government organizations before her current assignment with Amity Institute of Biotechnology,

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as Assistant Director. She had joined Amity University as a lecturer around the time of its inception in 2005. Prior to that she had worked Project Associate in Department of Cell Biology, National Institute of Immunology, India. (07/01 to 04/04) and Project Associate in Department of Immunopharmacology at National Institute of Immunology, India. (05/00 to 05/01).Seema Bhatnagar started her career as Senior Research Fellow (Extended) in Medicinal Chemistry Division, associated with "Lactam Acetals in Organic Synthesis" under the supervision of Nitya Anand. Project fully sponsored by

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being executed at New Drug Discovery Research (NDDR),

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. (6/99-12/99) Bhatnagar is currently working as Assistant Director at Amity Institute of Biotechnology with Amity University, Noida. Bhatnagar has been associated with the University since its inception. She began her research career with project sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (India) (DST).''

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'' She is currently pursuing project sponsored by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR),''

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'' along with her collaborator Bhudev Chandra Das. Apart from this she has developed active collaboration with Bhyravabhotla Jayaram at

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, Thankayyan Retnabai Santhosh Kumar at

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(RGCB),

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and Drug Discovery Unit at the

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to strengthen her research work. She has been the front runner at her Institute for being selected to attend

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Advanced Course in Small Molecule Drug Discovery. Prof Bhatnagar’s research credentials include several

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and

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.Seema Bhatnagar's profile at ''Google Scholar''
/ref> At Amity University along with the research, Prof.Bhatnagar also leads various initiatives, including collaboration of Foreign Universities and Scientific Research organizations, with Amity University, apart from Study Abroad Program and Three Continent Program. Prof.Bhatnagar has worked with the top research institutes and scientist in India during her Post Doc. including National Institute of Immunology, India

, Central Drug Research Institute.

Professional Training's & Fellowship/Awards/Achievements

*Small Molecule Drug Discovery organized by ''

'' at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge UK.1-6 June 2014 Fellowships/Awards *Got into the World's Top 2% Most Influential Scientists in the 2023 Stanford University List.*Awarded Fellow of The Indian Society of Agricultural Biochemists'2023" *Awarded Senior Research Fellowship (Extended) by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi. (06/99-12/99) *Nominated member of the Jury Panel (level 1) for the ‘Dupont India Challenge-2002 Science Paper Contest ‘(07/02)

Personal life

Bhatnagar was born in the city of

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and is the eldest daughter of to Ram Chandra

(1940-1999), who was Associate Director with

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and Meera Srivastava. Her younger brother is heading IT Operations in a MNC, and a youngest sister is a

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. Seema is married to an IT Consultant, and they together have one son and one daughter.

References

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