Associate Professor

Dr Sushama Talegaonkar is working as Associate Professor in Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, DPSRU, New Delhi She has about 21 years experience in teaching and research. Dr Talegaonkar has granted recently one Indian Patent and filed 6 Indian patents. She has published more than 220 research papers in high impact factor International reputed journals and 30 papers in National journals with h-index 47, i10-index -126 and more than 9300 google scholar citations. Besides this, she has co-authored five books and authored 15 chapters in International reference books. She has presented papers in more than 50 National and International conferences and participated in more than 50 symposia and workshops. She has travelled to Canada, United Kingdom and Singapore to present her research papers. Recently, she has been conferred “Prof C J Shishoo award” for best research in Pharmaceutical Sciences by APTI. She has also been conferred the “UGC Research Award 2014-2016. She has also received Best Paper Award in Pharmaceutics for article published in IJPER by APTI in its 18th Annual National Convention 2013. Her research paper titled “Development and bioavailability assessment of remipril nanoemulsion formulation” has received most cited research paper award on behalf of Elsevier and board of European Journal of pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics. She was awarded prestigious Motan Devi Dandiya Biennial Prize for best publication in Pharmaceutical Sciences for the period 2010-11. Dr Talegaonkar has so far supervised 26 Ph.D and 60 Master Students. Currently, she is supervising 05 Ph.D. scholars and M Pharm project works of 04 students. She is actively involved in developing wide variety of smart and functionalized nano drug delivery systems for targeted anticancer drug delivery. She has executed research projects sponsored by various national funding agencies like University Grants Commission, All India Council for Technical Education, Department of Biotechnology and Science and Engineering board. She is also the member of editorial board of Recent patents on drug delivery and Formulation, Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology etc