Personal Information
Dr. Vikrant Singh Rajput
Assistant Professor
B. Tech (Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida); GATE (Life Science); Ph.D (Biological Science, CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu); PDF-Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee; DHR Young Scientist-JNU Delhi.
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- TB and anti-microbial therapeutics discovery and development.
- Bio-safety and bio-containment.
- Combating bacterial resistance using small molecules.
- Exploring novel drug targets against bacterial pathogens.
- Computational biology tools for drug discovery and vaccine design.
- AI for TB detection.
Academic Qualifications
2017 Ph.D (Biological Science), Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR), Jammu (J&K), India.
2010 B. Tech (Biotechnology), Amity University, Noida (UP), India.
Professional Experience
Dec, 2022-till date Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer (RJ), India.
Mar, 2022-Nov, 2022 Scientist, Foundation for Neglected Diseases Research (FNDR), Bengaluru, (KA), India.
Jan, 2019-Jan, 2022 Young Scientist, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Delhi,India.
Feb, 2018-Jan, 2019 Scientist, Bio-safety Support Unit, Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Lodhi Road, Delhi, India.
June, 2017-Feb, 2018 MHRD Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee (UK), India.
July, 2016-May, 2017 Adhoc Faculty, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Raipur (CG), India.
Awards, Fellowships and recognitions
| 2023 | Young Scientist Award for a research talk at SABINP-2023, KL University (A.P). |
| 2022 | EMBO travel grant to present poster at NACARB-2022, Ascona, Switzerland. |
| 2019 | Young Scientist Fellowship and research grant award by Dept. of Health and Research (DHR), Govt. of India (Research grant worth Rupees Forty Six Lakhs for 3 years). |
| 2017 | MHRD Postdoctoral Fellowship, by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee. |
| 2016 | Poster Prize on World TB day symposium organized by AIIMS Delhi. |
| 2015 | Best Patent Award by CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Jammu (Govt. of India). |
| 2013 | Award for “Significant contribution in Discovery Biology for novel scaffolds in Tuberculosis” by CSIR-IIIM (Govt. of India) |
| 2010 | Qualified the country-wide research fellowship exam GATE conducted by IIT’s and IISc for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) awarded by CSIR to pursue doctoral studies. |
My research interests majorly include novel anti-TB and antimicrobial scaffold discovery, elucidating mechanism of action of whole cell active molecules, exploring novel drug targets and combating drug resistance using small molecules. Over the years, I have developed expertise in High Throughput Screening (HTS) against enzymes as well as susceptible and drug resistant whole cell organisms (M. tb in particular), major drug discovery assays ranging from screening to in depth characterization of lead molecules, bio-assay standardizations and molecular biology work.
I am also interested in working on and developing technologies defining PK/PD profile of anti-bacterial drugs for making right selections for clinical trials, exploring new antigens for developing cost effective point of care TB diagnostics and innovatory biomedical technologies/applications improving upon existing healthcare systems against microbial pathogens.
Motivated research oriented candidates (B. Tech./M. Tech./Msc.) interested in intenships are welcome to contact during office hours.
Candidates interested to pursue postdoctoral reserach having their OWN fellowship or willing to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship (NPDF, Dr. D S KOTHARI etc) tenable at Universities with overlapping reserach interests are welcome to contact during office hours.
| S. No. | Authors | Title of Article | Journal/Conference Details | Journal/Conference | Publication Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vikrant Singh Rajput*, Ashish Runthala and Inshad Ali Khan* (*Corresponding Author) | Shikimate kinase inhibitors: An update on promising strategy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Current Drug Targets | Journal | 2023 |
| Title | Funding Agency | Role | Amount | Duration | Year of Sanction |
| Exploring the enoyl CoA hydratase as potential antitubercular drug target. | Dept. of Health Research (Govt. of India) | PI | 46 Lakhs | 3 years | 2019 |
Attended
Workshop
1. One Week FDP (01-07/07/2023) on blended learning concepts and tools from Teaching Learning Centre Ramanujan College, University of Delhi.
2. One Week FDP (29/05/2023-04/06/2023) on NEP-2020 from Teaching Learning Centre Ramanujan College, University of Delhi.
3. Four (4) Week Faculty Induction/Orientation Programme (20/01/2023-18/02/2023) for faculty in Universities/Colleges/Institutes of Higher Education completed with A+ Grade from Teaching Learning Centre Ramanujan College, University of Delhi.4. 5. Short term course on
4. Workshop on "Computational structure based drug design, Biologics design and Molecular dynamics" held from Dec. 14th -18th,2019 organized by Dept. of Biotechnology National Institute of Technology, Raipur with Schrodinger Inc. Bengaluru, India.
5. Biorisk Management Workshop conducted by Sandia National Laboratories, USA on 25, Aug 2014 at IIIM, Jammu.
Poster Presentation
1. Presented poster titled “Screening and identification of inhibitors of Shikimate kinase of M. tuberculosis from whole cell active library” in the international conference on Drugs for the Future: Infectious Diseases- 2014, Antimicrobial Drug Discovery: Challenges and Perspectives at NIPER, Hyderabad.
2. Presented poster titled “Identification of an allosteric inhibitor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Shikimate kinase” at world TB day Symposium "Challenges in tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment", on 30th March, 2016 at, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.
Invited Lecture/Oral presentation
1. Oral presentation/research talk at "International Conference on Current Sustainable Agricultural, Biotechnological, Nutritional and Pharmaceutical Interventions to Combat Global Challenges"-Dec. 2023 at KL University, Vijayawada. Abstract title: “Capsaicin analogues as potent antibiotic potentiator against Staphylococcus aureus”
2. Undertook invited academic lectures at K.L University Guntur, A.P in 2020 and 2021.
| Title | Attachment File | Other Link |
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 Vikrant S. Rajput CURAJ CV 2023 (1).pdf | https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=5ybfP0EAAAAJ |
