Parag Jain

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About Parag Jain

Dr. Parag Jain, M.Pharm, Ph.D Pharmacology, Currently, working as PostDoctoral Research Fellow, University of Texas, Houston, US. He was Associate Professor at Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Science and Research Bhilai, India. He worked as Assistant Professor in Department of Pharmacology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Koni, Bilaspur. He completed his master’s degree in 2013 from Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University (Columbia Institute of Pharmacy, Raipur). He has been honoured by Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bangalore in 2012 for promotion towards research. He has selected for P.C. Dandiya prize for poster presentation on anti-inflammatory activity of Artesunate in 2013. He has been won few national elocution competitions and oral presentation awards. He availed in edge cutting research work at Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine CSIR, Jammu for six months and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi for two months during his master’s, where he got expertise in diabetes, toxicity testing, preclinical studies, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, with equal inclination to ethnopharmacology. His areas of interest include diabetes, neuropharmacology, toxicology, molecular biology, ethnopharmacology and so on. He has recognized publications in national and international journals to his credit and few more in pipeline. His present work lies on exploring the natural sources for treating type-2 diabetes.