Biophysical and Computational Tools in Drug Discovery

Dr. Anil K. Saxena, Emeritus Scientist, Ex-Chief Scientist Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India, is actively involved in the fields of Medicinal Chemistry & Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD). With 50+ years of research experience, several publications in journals and books, and 70 patents, he is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, INSA Young Scientist Medal , Themis Chemicals UDCT Diamond Jubilee Distinguished Fellowship, Ranbaxy Research Award in Pharmaceutical Sciences, an Honorary Medal for outstanding contributions to Medicinal Chemistry and International Scientific collaboration Moscow, Russia, 2004, and Prof. P.K. Bose Memorial Award (Indian Chemical Society, 2009). Dr. Saxena is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, and is also series editor of “Topics in Medicinal Chemistry” published by Springer. He is the Editorial Board Member of different journals like Medicinal Chemistry Research, SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry and online International journal ARKIVOC, and he is also member of several committees including the American Chemical Society.

• Kinetic profiling of fragments by TR-FRET.- Role of Structural biology in drug discovery with emphasis on X-ray crystallography.- A computational search for peptide vaccines using novel mathematical descriptors of sequences of emerging pathogens.- Solution NMR methods in Drug Discovery for the series.- Applications of Mass Spectrometry in Herbal Drug Research.- Generative machine learning for drug discovery.- Structure and ligand based virtual screening in drug discovery.- Quantum Chemical and Quantum Dynamics Techniques for Drug Discovery Including Bioinorganic Compounds.