Dr. Rahul Kumar Maurya

Associate Professor · Amity Institute of Pharmacy

Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus

Author

APID

5069

ORCID

0000-0002-8841-7411

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LeqwhtkAAAAJ&hl=en

Location

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Expertise

Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design Synthesis of novel N-heterocycles Synthetic Method Development Medicinal and computational drug discovery, Phytochemistry

Areas of interest

Diabetes, Neurodegeneration, anti-cancer

Member since

December 2023

Biography

Dr. Rahul K. Maurya received his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from CDRI Lucknow in 2019. His current position is Associate Professor at the Amity Institute of Pharmacy on the Lucknow Campus of Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India. Fifteen years of his professional life have been spent in the world of academics and scientific discovery and won different prizes. He has presented his findings at prestigious national and international conferences and published his findings in scholarly journals. His research interests include the development of new therapies for diabetes, infectious diseases, and central nervous system disorders via the discovery, design, and synthesis of novel nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds such as functionalized indoles, indazoles, TZD, benzimidazoles, isoxazoles, and nitroimidazoles. He has extensive experience in multidisciplinary research and computer-assisted drug design. He also contributes as a reviewer for several scholarly publications. He has guided the research of various students at the undergraduate and graduate levels to fruitful findings.

Publications

1. An overview on medicinal perspective of thiazolidine-2,4-dione: A remarkable scaffold in the treatment of type 2 diabetes
2. Geraniol reverses obesity by improving conversion of WAT to BAT in high fat diet induced obese rats by inhibiting HMGCoA reductase
3. Neuroprotective Potential of Trachyspermum Ammi Essential Oil against Monosodium Glutamate Induced Excitotoxicity by Reducing Accumulation of β-Amyloid.
4. PIDA-Mediated Intramolecular N-N Bond Formation to Access 2-Aminoindazoles and 2,2′-Biindazoles
5. Protective effect of vanillin on the management of cecal ligation and puncture induced sepsis rat model
6. Recent Development in Synthesis of Carbon Dots from Natural Resources and Their Applications in Biomedicine and Multi‐Sensing Platform