Speakers

• Dr. Krutika K Sawant Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda
  

  Dr. Krutika K Sawant

  Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda

  Prof. Krutika K Sawant is the Head, Pharmacy Department, (since 2-5-2017) and Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy (since Oct 2019), The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara.
  She obtained her B Pharm, M Pharm and Ph D from The M S University of Baroda.
  Her Broad area of Specialization is Formulation and Development of Controlled and Novel Drug Delivery Systems.
  She has more than 33 years of Teaching and Research Experience.
  She has 1 Indian patent granted, 5 Book chapters, 110 Publications and nearly 80 Papers Presentations.
  Prof Sawant has 4548 Citations with h-index of 36 and i10-index of 73.
  She has guided 25 Ph D and 82 M Pharm students.
  She is a Reviewer for more than 25 Scopus Indexed peer Reviewed International Journals. She is a Member of Board of Studies in Pharmacy and Faculty Board of MSUB and few other Universities.
  She has acted as a Resource person for various Seminars, Workshops, Conferences and Staff Development programs.
  She is a Member, Research Monitoring Committee / Doctoral Advisory Committee for Gujarat Technological University, Nirma University, CHARUSAT University, Dharamsinh Desai University, Parul University etc.
  She has also acted as Examiner for B.Pharm., M.Pharm. and Ph.D. courses at various Colleges and Universities.

• Dr. Swati Biswas Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacy, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad
  

  Dr. Swati Biswas

  Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacy, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad

  Professor Swati Biswas completed B. Pharm and M. Pharm from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and earned a Ph.D. degree in 2008 from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Later, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Wayne State University for one year and Northeastern University for four years. Professor Biswas joined BITS-Pilani Hyderabad as an Assistant Professor in 2013 and was later promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. Her current research interest includes drug delivery to cancer and the eye via nanoparticles systems such as liposomes, polymeric micelles, solid lipid nanoparticles, and inorganic nanoparticles. The lab is actively working on developing nanomedicines capable of executing multiple functions, such as combination drug delivery, chemo-photodynamic therapy, photothermal-chemotherapy, etc., for successful tumor regression. Prof. Biswas has 80 peer-reviewed publications in reputed journals, four book chapters, sixty conference proceedings, and ten patents (Indian and international) to her credit. Prof. Biswas received research supports from DST-Fast Track, DST-SERB, DBT-BioCARe, DST-Indo-Belarus, CSIR, ICMR-DHR, Daewoong Pharmaceuticals, Ltd, Hyderabad, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratory, Hyderabad, and Sun Pharmaceutical Advanced Research Company, Vadodara. Dr. Biswas has been featured among the world’s top 2 % scientists in the single year 2019 and 2020 in a publication of science-wise author databases by Stanford University. Dr. Biswas has recently been nominated as an Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Journal, ACS Molecular pharmaceutics for 2021-2023.