Anil Kumar
Panjab University, India
Biography
Anil Kumar is currently Professor of Pharmacology, UIPS, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Dr. Kumar obtained his postgraduate degree (M. Pharm) and Ph.D degree in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences with specialization in “Pharmacology” at the Panjab University. Besides, Dr. Kumar has been trained through various international and national training programmes such as BOYSCAST fellowship, IBRO fellowship, School of neuroscience, INSA-Visiting fellowship, IBRO-VLTP, RIKEN Brain Science summer (BSI, Japan) fellowships. Dr. Anil Kumar has a wide experience of working in the areas of neuroscience, special focus on neurological problems such as Alzheimer diseases, Huntington disease, stress, stroke, sleep and diabetes complications (neuropathy and nephropathy) and related problems. Dr. Kumar’s main aim is to explore various neuroprotective strategies and possible mechanism for these problems. Dr. Kumar’s research hypothesis has been well funded by various national and industrial funding agencies. Dr. Kumar has extensively published his research work (more than 120 research paper with H Index 23, Citation index 2090) in various national and international journals of repute such as British Journal of Pharmacology, Psychopharmacology, Neuroscience, Brain Research, Neurotoxicology, Neuroscience letter etc. Dr. Kumar supervised several postgraduates (>21) and doctoral (> 8) thesis and currently 07 PhD students and 02 postgraduates students are working in his laboratory.