Probiotic Research in Therapeutics

Dr Indu Pal Kaur is presently the Professor and Chairperson, at the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. She has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience to her credit. She was Director Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility, Panjab University, from 2012 to 2015 and Dean - Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, for session 2017-18. Her research forte is enhancing bioperformance of drugs, plant extracts/phytochemicals and small/large biomolecules viz. siRNA and probiotics using active-tailored delivery systems. She has been granted four Indian and one US patents and has filed 22 patents in the past 10 years. She has produced 23 PhDs and 55 postgraduates. She received funding to the tune of 72.3 million INR from Government agencies and has a couple of Industrial consultancies amounting to 15.3 million INR. Her research work was funded twice (2017 and 2020) by DST and Science and Techno^ 130 high impact International publications, and her group has received 31 Best Paper awards at National and International Conferences. She is a US-Fulbright fellow (2017-18) and was awarded Women Scientist Award -2018 by Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI). She has also been graced with BRIC Technology Exposition Award, consecutively for 2019 and 2020, Tynor Innovation Award- 2019 and Researcher of the Year award 2019, by Sunpure Research Incubation Center. Emphasis of her work lies on Industrial and clinical translation and is reflected through her three technology transfers to two Indian industries.

Dr Parneet Kaur Deol, is presently working as Assistant Professor at G.H.G. Khalsa College of Pharmacy Gurusar Sadhar Ludhiana, Punjab, India. She has more than 10 years of experience in probiotic research and has published her work in highly reputed peer reviewed international journals. She has 21 international publications to her credit with cumulative impact^50. She has co-edited a special issue for 'Current Pharmaceutical Design' with Prof. Indu Pal Kaur in the year 2019. Dr Deol has presented her work at various national and international platforms. She was awarded with the 'Dr. Harpal Singh Buttar and Mrs. Harinder Kaur Buttar Award of Excellence in Pharmaceutical Sciences' in the year 2016 and Mekaster Young Scientist Award in 2018 for her research work. Recently she fetched two research projects from Department of Science and Technology-Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB), New Delhi worth 65 lakh.