Professor & HOD

Dr. Raghunandan Deshpande received his PhD at Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University, Hyderabad (JNTU), India, in Pharmaceutical Sciences in the specialization of Nanobiotechnology on the topic ‘Silver Nanoparticles as Drug Delivery Systems’. He is working as Associate Professor and Head of the Department in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, HKES’s Matoshree Taradevi Rampure Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences working since 15 years. He is also working as Principle collaborator in the project sponsored with Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences BRNS, (Department of Atomic Energy, DAE). Worked as Research Associate in various research projects funded by VGST, UGC, AICTE and DST. He is a post doctoral mentor appointed by Science and Engineering Research Board (NPDF-SERB), government of India. His research H-index is 15, i10 index is 19, RG index is 25 and g index is 29. Apart from research and teaching experience, the full backing of knowledge about the medicinal chemistry as he had worked in the field of Marketing, Product management and Visual aid development, Quality Assurance, Bulk Drug Manufacturing, Formulation, Quality Control and Product Research & Development and their applications in different Industries for considerable time. In this Field of Research, he has received quite a good encouragement and appreciation in the form of awards won at different academic conferences. He has more than 50 publications and applied 4 patents. He is awarded as a Karnataka state government sponsored Young Scientist from Bharataratna Prof. CNR Rao .