Pulok Mukherjee

Pulok Kumar Mukherjee is an Indian Professor of Pharmaceutical technology at the Jadavpur University as well as an Associated Editor of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, published by Elsevier.[1] He is Director of the School of Natural Product Studies.[2] Mukherjee is the Director, School of Natural Product Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Biography

Mukherjee obtained both his PhD and Master's in pharmacy from Jadavpur University in Jadavpur, Kolkata in 1997. He then attended Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research in the Netherlands as a postdoctoral researcher. Before becoming a professor he worked as a visiting professor at the UCL School of Pharmacy, University of London, King's College and University of Tokushima in Japan.[1]

In 2007 Mukherjee along with Venkatesan Kumar, Mainak Mal, and Peter J Houghton discovered how to inhibit acetylcholinesterase to treat neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, senile dementia, ataxia and myasthenia gravis.[3]

Awards

Mukherjee is a fellow of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Royal Society of Chemistry as well as the Indian Pharmaceutical Association.[1] He received a Department of Biotechnology DBT TATA Innovation fellowship and a Department of Science and Technology DST BOYSCAST fellowship.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dr. Pulok Kumar Mukherjee". Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "ABC's Blumenthal Receives International Ethnopharmacologist of the Year Award". PR Newswire. 27 February 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  3. ↑ Pulok K. Mukherjee; Venkatesan Kumar; Mainak Mal; Peter J. Houghton (2007). "Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors from plants". Phytomedicine. Elsevier. 14 (4): 289–300. doi:10.1016/j.phymed.2007.02.002. PMID 17346955.
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