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Radhika Venkatraman KumarPhD

Radhika Venkatraman KumarPhD

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Teaching Track)

Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dr. Kumar has extensive teaching experience in life sciences, pre-pharmacy, pre-med, nursing and pharmacy programs. Her research interests are drug design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of potential anti-cancer drug molecules. She also has an interest in pharmacy education and in science of teaching and learning (SoTL) and has presented and published in this area.

As assistant professor at American University of Health Sciences, she instructed courses in pharmaceutics, biopharmaceutics, integrated pharmacotherapy, pharmaceutical calculations, and introduction to medicinal chemistry.

She received her MS and PhD in medicinal chemistry from the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at St. John’s University in New York, and her Bachelors in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Mumbai University, India.

 

    • Education

      St. John's University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

      PhD

      St. John's University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

      MS

      Prin. K. M. Kundnani College of Pharmacy

      BPharm

    • Selected Articles

      Focus of societal responsibility in the vision and mission statements of the United States pharmacy schools/colleges

      Pharmacy Education (2021)
      Islam MA, Yang S, Kumar RV, Dutta A, and Talukder R.

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      Structural and biological aspects of natural bridged macrobicyclic peptides from marine resources

      Arch Pharm (Weinheim)
      Dahiya R, Dahiya S, Kumar P, Kumar RV, Dahiya S, Kumar S, Saharan R, Basu P, Mitra A, Sharma A, Kashaw SK, Patel JK

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      Synthesis and anticancer evaluation of sulfur containing 9-anilinoacridines

      Recent Pat Anticancer Drug Discov
      upta P, Kumar RV, Kwon CH, Chen ZS

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    • Patents

      Synthesis and anticancer evaluation of sulfur containing Amsacrine derivatives (provisional patent)

      | 2008