Computer Aided Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery

Vikas Anand Saharan had obtained his B.Pharm from SBSPGI Dehradun, master’s from NIPER Mohali, and PhD from Mohanlal Sukhadia University Udaipur. He has 20 years of teaching and research experience in pharmacy, published 60+ papers in journals, presented 75+ papers in conferences, and supervised 39+ M.Pharm and 2 PhD thesis. He has authored 3 books and 19 book chapters. He has received an award for GATE guidance and appreciation awards for teaching and research. He is a reviewer and editorial board member of various national and international journals. He is a recipient of grant-in-aid under the AICTEMODROBS project. Presently he is also entrusted with the responsibilities of chief program coordinator for PhD and nodal officer for AISHE at Sardar Bhagwan Singh University.

History and Present Scenario of Computers in Pharmaceutical Research and Development.-Historical Developments on Computer Applications in Pharmaceutics.- Computer Aided Formulation Development.- Quality-by-Design in Pharmaceutical Development.- Teaching Principles of DoE as an Element of QbD for Pharmacy Students.- Computer-Assisted Manufacturing of Medicines.- Computer Aided Biopharmaceutical Characterization: Gastrointestinal Absorption Simulation and In Silico Computational Modeling.- Computer Simulation and Modeling in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics.- Physiologicallly Based Pharmacokinetic Modelling.- Computers in Clinical Development.- Artificial Intelligence (AI).- Robotic Automation of Pharmaceutical and Life Science Industries.- Soft Robots for the Delivery of Drugs.- Use of Computers and Internet in Scholarly Information Retrieval.- Patent Searching.- Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD).- Quantitative Structure Property Relationship (QSPR) Modeling Applications in Formulation Development.- Modeling Approaches for Studies of Drug-Polymer Interactions in Drug Delivery Systems.- Computers in Pharmaceutical Analysis.- Telemedicine.- Bioinformatics in Drug-Design and Delivery.- Statistical Modeling Techniques.- Molecular Modelling of Nanoparticles.- Pharmaceutics Informatics: Bio/chemoinformatics in Drug Delivery.- Computer-aided Development and Testing of Human Extra-thoracic Airway Models for Inhalation Drug Delivery.