Pooja A Chawla

Dr. Pooja A Chawla is working as a Professor, at the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, Punjab, India. She has 22 years of experience in the research, discovery, and development of iologically active pharmaceuticals. Dr. Chawla holds a PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences with a specialization in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and has published 6 books, 25 book chapters, and more than 150 papers in national/international journals and is serving as a reviewer for international journals of repute. Dr. Pooja is also privileged to serve as guest editor of two reputed journals CNS & Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets IF 2.8 and Current Organic Chemistry IF 2.5) of Bentham Sciences. She has been appointed as Academic editor of PLOS ONE journal IF 3.2 and recently she has been appointed as Assistant editor for Health Sciences Review Journal by Elsevier publishers. She has guided more than 60 postgraduate projects and her research team consists of 6 Masters and 4 Doctoral research scholars. Her area of research interest focuses on the design and synthesis of various heterocyclic moieties including 4-Thiazolidinones, 2,4-Thiazolidiedione, Coumarin, Pyrazolines, Schiff’s base derivatives to name a few for the discovery of medicinally important agents as anticonvulsants, antidepressants, anticancer, anti Alzheimer’s agents. She is well-versed with method development and validation and guiding research scholars in this field.