Date : July 24, 2020 and July 25, 2020 9:30AM onwards

COVID-19 Disease Control – Opportunities and Challenges for Drug Discovery and Development; Drug Repurposing and Alternative Medicine organized by Centre for Bio-Separation Technology (CBST)

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Prof. N Srinivasan (Professor & Chair, Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bengaluru)
Repurposing drugs against the main protease of SARS-CoV-2: Mechanism-based insights supported by available laboratory and clinical data

Dr. Rishi Jain (Vice President, Medical, Clinical & Regulatory Affairs, India Business and ROW, Wockhardt, Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Artificial Intelligence in Drug Designing and Development

Dr. C.N. Ramchand (CEO, Saksin Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, Chennai)
Reverse Pharmacology, Drug discovery

Prof. M.U.R. Naidu (Director, Natco Pharma, India)
Corona Virus & COVID-19- Drug & Vaccine Development

Dr. Balaram Patro (CEO, GRK labs, Hyderabad)
Recent global coronavirus issue: drug discovery and therapeutic options in this study

Dr. Chandrasekhar Korapala (Seniors lead Investigator, Syngene International, Bangalore)
An Overview of drug discovery, design and development with an emphasis on Coronavirus

Dr. Dinkar Sahal (Visiting Scientist, Malaria Drug Discovery, ICGEB, New Delhi)
Drugs should be combinations that cure, thwart resistance and enable the personalized body physiology to assist in the curative process

Dr. Nagendra Singh (Assistant prof. School of Biotechnology, Gautam Buddha University)
COVID19 pandemic: Structure based drug design approaches

Dr. S. Narasimhan (Founder and Managing Director, Asthagiri Herbal research Foundation, Chennai)
Herbal Intervention in COVID-19 Management

Dr. Ramesh. R . Varier (Managing Director & Senior Physician, AVN Arogya Ayurvedic Hospital, Madurai)
Ayurvedic Medicine for enhancing Immunity

Dr. Ramasamy Rajesh Kumar (Research Scientist, Key laboratory of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences of Ministry of Agriculture of PR China)
Coronavirus and Traditional Chinese medicine

CHIEF PATRON
Dr. G.Viswanathan, Chancellor

PATRONS
Mr. Sankar Viswanathan (Vice President)
Dr. Sekar Viswanathan (Vice President)
Mr. G.V Selvam (Vice President)
Ms. Kadhambari S. Viswanathan ( Asst. Vice President)
Dr. Sandhya Pentareddy (Executive Director)

CO-PATRONS
Dr. Anand . A. Samuel (Vice Chancellor)
Dr. S. Narayanan (Pro Vice Chancellor)
Dr. Sathiyanarayanan (Registrar)

CONVENER
Dr. Krishnan.V Director,CBST

ADVISOR
M.A.Vijaylakshmi, Former Director,CBST

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Dr. Jayaprakash N S (Assoc. Professor Sr.)
Dr. Ayesha Noor (Assoc. Professor)
Dr. A S Kamalnathan (Asst. Professor Sr.)
Dr. T Kali Kishore Reddy (Asst. Professor Sr.)
Dr. Sanjit Kumar (Asst. Professor Sr.)
Dr. Sabareesh V (Asst. Professor Sr.)
Dr. Priyankar Sen (Asst. Professor Sr.)