The Group

Vinod Prakashrao Venkatpurwar

 

Vinod obtained his Bachelor of Pharmacy and Master of Pharmacy from Government College of Pharmacy, Aurangabad and Poona College of Pharmacy, Pune, Maharashtra, India in 2002 and 2005 respectively. He has submitted his dissertation for fulfilment of Doctorate of Philosopy to Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune, India in Aug 2011. He worked as a Research Trainee and Research Associate in formulation development unit of two renounced organizations Sanofi-aventis group, aventis Ltd., Goa, India and Lupin Research Park, Lupin Ltd., Pune, India from Aug 2005 to Aug 2006 and Sep 2006 to Oct 2007 respectively. From Aug 2011 he joined as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
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Awards

  • Travel grant (€ 750) was awarded by 8th International Symposium on Polymer Therapeutics: from Laboratory to Clinical Practice, Valencia, Spain, 24-26th May 2010 for oral presentation of a scientific project.
  • National Doctoral Fellowship (NDF) of All India Council for Technical Education, Delhi, India. (2008 to 2011)
  • Post graduate fellowship of All India Council for Technical Education, Delhi, India (2003 to 2005).

Patent

  • Varsha B. Pokharkar, Vinod P. Venkatpurwar and Kakasaheb R. Mahadik, "Green synthesis of colloidal metal nanoparticles using natural sulfated polysaccharide for pharmaceutical applications", Indian patent application number: 1398/MUM/2010.

Education

 

    Doctor of Philosophy (Pharmaceutical Sciences)

  • Poona College of Pharmacy, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Erandwane, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
  • Master of Pharmacy (Pharmaceutics) (2005)

  • Dept. of Pharmaceutics, Poona College of Pharmacy, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Erandwane, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
    First Class.
  • Diploma In Intellectual Property Law (2005),

  • New Law College, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Erandwane, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
    First Class.
  • Bachelor of Pharmacy (2002)

  • Government College of Pharmacy, Osmanpura, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.
    First Class.

Select Publications

  • Vinod Venkatpurwar, Anjali Shiras and Varsha Pokharkar, Porphyran capped gold nanoparticles as a novel carrier for delivery of anticancer drug: In-vitro cytotoxicity study, International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 409, 314-320 (2011), Impact factor- 3.60
  • Vinod Venkatpurwar and Varsha Pokharkar, Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using marine polysaccharide: In-vitro antibacterial activity, Materials Letters,65, 999-1002 (2011), Impact factor- 2.194
  • Vinod Venkatpurwar and Varsha Pokharkar, Biosynthesis of gold nanoparticles using therapeutic enzyme: In-vitro and in-vivo efficacy study. Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology Vol. 6, 1-8 (2010), Impact factor – 2.617.
  • Chinna Reddy Palem, Sweta Patel, Vinod Venkatpurwar and Varsha B. Pokharkar, Influence of atorvastatin calcium-cyclodextrin complexation on solubility, stability and pharmacodynamic activity, Acta Pharmaceutica Sciencia, 51: 297-312 (2009).
  • Varsha Pokharkar, Abhishek Khanna, Vinod Venkatpurwar, Sheetal Dhar and Leenata Mandape, Ternary complexation of carvedilol, β-cyclodextrin and citric acid for developing mouth dissolving tablet formulation, Acta Pharmaceutica 59 (2009) 121–132, Impact Factor – 0.9.

Research Highlights


  • Vinod Venkatpurwar and Varsha Pokharkar, Marine algal shape nanoparticles, Nature India, DOI:10.1038/nindia.2011.22; Published online 15 February 2011.

Paper Presentations

  • Charu Mendiratta, Vinod Venkatpurwar and Varsha Pokharkar, Porphyran capped silver nanoparticles: In vitro antibacterial, antifungal and in vivo wound healing activity in experimental rat model, 4th Winter School on Nanotechnology in Advance Drug Delivery, NIPER, SAS Nagar, Punjab, India, 28 Feb.- 04 March 2011.
  • Vinod Venkatpurwar and Varsha B. Pokharkar, Marine polysaccharide reduced gold nanoparticles for anticancer drug delivery, 8th International symposium on Polymer Therapeutics: Laboratory to clinical practice, Valencia, Spain, 24th May 2010 to 26th May 2010.
  • Vinod Venkatpurwar and Varsha Pokharkar, Synthesis and evaluation of gold nanoparticles for drug delivery applications, Second Winter School on Nanotechnology in Advance Drug Delivery, NIPER, SAS Nagar, Punjab, India, 24-28 Feb. 2009.

Poster Presentation

  • Vinod Venkatpurwar and Varsha Pokharkar, Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using marine polysaccharide: Study of in-vitro antibacterial activity, NANOCON 2010, Pune, Maharashtra, India, 14th Oct. to 15th Oct 2010.
  • Salunkhe S.S., Venkatpurwar V.P. and Pokharkar V.B., Optimization of ibuprofen loaded nanoemulsion prepared by nanoprecipitation method, 10th International symposium of controlled release society Indian chapter on Advances in technology and business potential of new drug delivery systems 2010.
  • Kadam V.V., Waghmare M.U., Venkatpurwar V.P. and Pokharkar V.B., Formulation and characterization of glipizide –metformin HCl sustained release bilayer tablet, 10th International symposium of controlled release society Indian chapter on Advances in technology and business potential of new drug delivery systems 2010.
  • Salunkhe S. S., Shivale D.M., Venkatpurwar V.P. and Pokharkar V. B, Development of fast dissolving tablets of Valsartan, 61st Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, 2009, Ahemadabad, India.
  • Kadam V. V., Waghmare M.U., Venkatpurwar V. P. and Pokharkar V. B., Preparation and evaluation of glipizide - metformin HCL sustained release bilayer tablet. 61st Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, 2009, Ahemadabad, India.
  • Venkatpurwar Vinod and Pokharkar Varsha, Green synthesis of gold nanoparticles using therapeutically active enzyme, Indo-US workshop on nanotechnology: applications and implications (2009), IICT, Hyderabad, India.
  • Vinod Venkatpurwar, Mahesh Padamwar, Sheetal Dhar and Varsha Pokharkar, Chitosan reduced gold nanoparticles: A novel carrier for the preparation of spray dried liposomes, 6th International Nano Drug Delivery Symposium'08 (18th –19th Oct' 2008.), University of Toronto, Canada.
  • Vinod Venkatpurwar, Lalit Gurg and Anant Paradkar, "Preparartion and characterization of aceclofenac beads by melt solidification technique". "Controlled release society-Indian Chapter" 8th international symposium, Ahemadabad, Gujarat, India.

Professional Activities

  • Participate in "Pharma Cricket Cup 2000" organized by Poona College of Pharmacy, Pune.

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