Advanced Pharmacology

Dr. Bikash Medhi is a Professor & Ex-Additional Medical Superintendent (AMS) in PGIMER, Department of Pharmacology. His area of expertise is Experimental Pharmacology, Clinical Research, Regulatory Pharmacology, Development of nanoformulations, Pharmacogenetics, Pharmacogenomics and Stem cells etc. He has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience and has owned more than 65 prestigious National and International Awards, namely, Dr. D N Prasad memorial award with Gold medal 2009 from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, V K Bhargava Award with a Gold medal from National Academy of Medical Sciences 2013, Col. R N Chopra Oration 2014 by Indian Pharmacology Society (IPS), NN Dutta Award 2016 by Indian Pharmacology Society (IPS), Dr. B N. Ghosh Oration at 43rd Annual Conference of IPS and International Conference on "Pharmacology & Translational Research" He is in core panel of expert for Task Force in IND application & Regulatory Affair, lead GLP Inspector, lead GCP inspector, Principle Assessor for NABH, He is in several committees in DCGI office, ICMR, DBT, DST, CSIR, NBE, MCI etc.He has authored five books and 150 chapters and published more than 400 articles in National & International journals. Further, he was selected as a member of various central government committees (GOI) and central government funding agencies: in the IND committee, FDC Committee, Compensation Committee, Sub-committee of Drug Regulation, Amendment Committee, Central Working Group Committee for Pharmacovigilance (PvPI), Signal Preview Committee, Member of Biologic Task Force DGCI-DBT committee, Member of GCP inspection team DCGI, Core Training Panel Committee Pharmacovigilance (PvPI), National Formulary Committee (NFI)-IPC, Chairman selection Committee for TA (IPC), Special Invitee for national Advisory board of Hemovigilance programme, Special Invitee for Central Ethics Committee ICMR, member of the committee for evaluation of Spurious Drugs, antimicrobial evaluation committee (ICMR). Basic Medical Sciences Project evaluation Committee (ICMR), HCG Vaccine Committee (ICMR), Member of Apex Technical committee for ICMR institute, Core member for Committee ICMR-NIREH Bhopal, member of ICMR funding to CDRI, Special Invitee - TB Task Force, DBT Task Force member, the Expert member for antidoping (NADA) and member of Expert group NADA, National Board Examination (NBE), Senate and selection committee member for NIPER, Member of Board of studies of Panjab University, Chandigarh, Working as GLP inspector for GLP monitoring authority (DST, New Delhi), member of Technical committee Department of Health Research (DHR), Ministry of health etc. He has been working in the national task force for COVID-19 and central ethics committee ICMR and working groups for COVID-19.