Drug Design: Principles and Applications

Applications of Computer aided drug design.- Advanced drug discovery for Alzheimer's disease: Challenges and strategies.- Modern approaches in Cancer pharmacology.- Contemporary approach for Malaria drug discovery.- The story of kinase inhibitors development with special reference to allosteric site.- Recent advancement in the chemotherapy of visceral leishmaniasis.- Strategies for tackling drug resistance in Tuberculosis.- ADMET properties: Overview and current topics.-Cheminformatics approaches in modern drug discovery.- Pharmacogenetics and personalized medicines.

Dr. Abhinav Grover is currently working as Assistant Professor in the School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He did PhD from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi in the year 2011. Prior to joining JNU, he received the coveted INSPIRE fellowship from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and worked as Assistant Professor at University of Delhi. His main area of research includes Drug Design and Development, Bioprocess Technology and Plant Biotechnology.Dr. Grover is a prolific publisher as he has authored 60 international papers and 2 book chapters in a short span of scientific career. He is recipient of the prestigious NASI Young Scientist Award in 2014, INSA Medal for Young Scientists in 2013, Indo-Swiss Joint Research Fellowship and many more. Notably he has also won ICAR-Jawaharlal Nehru Award in 2013 for outstanding PhD thesis. He is life member of National Academy of Sciences, India; Indian Science Congress Association; Society of Biological Chemists, India; etc. He is also member of International Society for Computational Biology. He has delivered invited talks at several national and international conferences and symposia of high repute.