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Professional experience

1. Apprentice trainee in plant tissue culture laboratory at Agricultural Research Station, Kerala Agriculture University, Kerala, India from April 2008 to September 2008.
2. Senior Lecturer at St.Joseph’s College of Pharmacy (University of Kerala), Kerala, From Nov 2008 to May 2009.
3. Assoc. Professor at Jamia Salafiya Pharmacy College, (Kerala university of health sciences), Kerala, India from 02nd Nov 2009 to 16th Dec 2016.
4. Associate professor at KMCT College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kallanthode, Calicut, Kerala, India from 1st August 2017 to 16th March 2018.
5. Research Director, Academic affairs and research at The Serve India Charitable Society, Gujarati Street, South Beach, Calicut, Kerala, India from 02nd April 2018 to 1st Aug 2019.
6. Assistant Professor at College of Pharmacy (Female), Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia from 6th October 2019 onwards.

• Total 9 years of experience (Post PhD experience- 2 years) in academics, associated research on infectious diseases, designing and implementation of projects in health allied area.
• Responsibilities
• Continuously performing various bacteriological and fungal studies like isolation of bacteria from different sources, their characterization, biochemical tests, microbial assays, Isolation of bacterial DNA, Gel electrophoresis and various enzymatic studies.
• Virological studies including, maintaining various cell cultures at animal cell culture lab in Dept. of Pharmaceutical biotechnology, JSS College of Pharmacy, Tamilnadu, India, includes cytotoxicity assays, virus titration, viral assays, virus-host interaction studies  etc.
• Worked as a group member in the institutional manuscript writing for publications in various reputed journals.
• Guided around 15 B.Pharm projects and 03 M.Pharm dissertations.
• Designed and implemented various projects in health allied areas such as drug discovery from natural sources, to improve regional sanitization conditions and the cultivation of medicinal plants etc.

• Technical Skills

• Microscopical techniques, Bacteriological studies, Biochemical tests
• Virological procedures, Antiviral assays, Cytotoxicity assays
• Assay of antibiotics, Microbial limit tests, Antibiotic sensitivity testing
• Isolation of biomolecules, Chromatographic techniques
• In vitro screening methods for various ailments
• Verbal and written communication skill in English language
• MS Office

• Fields of major scientific interests

• Study different kinds of bacteria, fungus, and their characteristics and biochemical parameters.
• Research on bacterial, fungal, and viral infections.
• Study on emerging and re-emerging viral infectious diseases.
• Natural and synthetic-based antiviral drug discovery and development against various infectious agents.
• Mechanistic studies of the isolated and newly synthesized molecules against infectious diseases.

• Honors/ Awards

• Secured First rank for M.Pharm from Dept. of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Biotechnology, JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty under The Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R Medical University, Chennai.
• Selected as a best outgoing student in M.Pharm during 2007-2008 and have been awarded the Mrs. Kanta. H. Sadhvani award and a gold medal from JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty, Tamilnadu.
• Received travel grant of 1000 Euros from International Society for Antiviral Research for attending 27th International conference on Antiviral research held in Italy during 10-15 May 2015.
• Bagged best poster award at ICMR sponsored International conference on herbal drug development: challenges and opportunities, held at Devakiamma memorial college of Pharmacy, Malappuram, India from 24th to 25th Nov 2016.
• Received best oral presentation award during PHARMACON III, National conference held at Nehru College of Pharmacy, Thrissur, Kerala, India during 14-15 October 2011.
• Selected for PhD program under Quality Improvement Programme (QIP) of AICTE, New Delhi, India.

• List of publications

• “In vitro antimalarial evaluation and phytochemical analysis of rhizomes Curcuma aeruginosa Roxb”. Anu V, Shijikumar PS, Anjana, Akhila S.mInternational Journal of Current Advanced Research. 2020 Feb; 9(2): 21331-335.
• “Taxifolin as dual inhibitor of Mtb DNA gyrase and isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase: In silico molecular docking, dynamics simulation and in vitro assays”. Charles K.Davis.; Nasla.K.; Anjana.A.K.; Rajankant G.K., In Silico Pharmacology. 2018 Mar;6(8).
• Phytochemical and Pharmacological Aspects of Strobilanthes ciliates Nees (Bremek.)- A review, Int.J. Res. Ayueveda. 2016 Aug; 7 (4): 72-77.
• “Synthesis, Doking studies and Pharmacological evaluation of imidazole analogues of Arecoline”. Manal Mohammed, K. Arul, Anjana. A.K, Remya K, Int J Curr Pharml Res, 2014; 6(1).
• “Development and Validation of HPLC Method for the Simultaneous Estimation of Quercetin and Rutin in Agarosma dichotoma (Roth) K. Schum”. Gomathy Subramanian, Subramania Nainar Meyyanathan, Yamjala Karthik, Anjana Karunakaran nair and Dhanabal S Palanisamy, Int. J. Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,  2014 ; 6 (2).
• “In vitro Antiviral screening of Psidium gujava L. against HSV-1 and HSV-2 by CPE Inhibition Assay”. Anjana.A.K, Prasanth Francis, Gomathy.S, Soumya.K.Vijayan, Manal Mohammed, M.J.N Chandrasekar. Asian J Pharm clin Res, 2013; 7(1).
• Nainar MS, Karthik Y, Nair AK, Ramisetti NR. Non-targeted high resolution tandem mass spectrometry (HR-MS/MS) screening and mutagenicity evaluation of photo-degradation products of Tartrazine (E102) in a commercial soft drink.  Food Research International (communicated).

• List of presentations

• Around 20 oral and poster presentations made in various National and International conferences.
• Presented research findings at “International conference on Antiviral Research” Held at Rome, Italy during 10th to 15th May 2015.

• Important conferences attended:

• National webinar series on “Holistic Approaches in the management of Lifestyle diseases” hosted by KMP College of Pharmacy, Kerala, India in association with Ministry of Education, Govt. of India on 4th Dec 2020.
• Workshop on “Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance: ADR Reporting and Risk Management" conducted by Dr. Maheswari at College of Pharmacy (Female) on 20th February 2020. 
• Workshop on “Modern Nalytical Techniques” conducted bt Dr.Meena Shanmugam at College of Pharmacy (Female) on 12th December 2019. 
• Workshop on “Recent Advances and Experimental Model for Neurodenerative Diseases Research conducted by Dr.Maheswari, at College of Pharmacy (Female) on 1st, December 2019. 
• Workshop on “Global Antibiotic Resistance and Its Consequence-What? How?. Best Practices to avoid Further Emergence” conducted by Dr.Meenashi Vanathi  at College of Pharmacy (Female) on 15th October 2019. 
• Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Sponsored International Conference on Herbal Drug Development Challenges and Opportunities held at Devakiamma College of Pharmacy, Malappuram, Kerala, India on 24-25 November 2016 and presented paper entitled “Bioactivity guided Isolation, Molecular Target Insight and in vitro Antiviral Evaluation of Strobilathes ciliatus Nees (Bremek.)”and agged best paper award.
• Ouality Improvement Programme (QIP) conducted by Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty, Tamilnadu, India on 8-21 February 2016 entitled  Prospective Approach of Biotechnology in Modern Research.
• Workshop on Hands of Training on Cell Culture Techniques, Cell Prolifertaion Assays and Gene Expression analysis by RT-PCR conducted by Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Department of Pharmacology, JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty, Tamilnadu, India on 14-16 July 2016.
• Seminar on Recent Advances in Drug Design Using Computational Chemistry Tools-Case Studies, held at JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty, Tamilnadu, India, on 4-5 November 2016.
• Ouality Improvement Programme (QIP) held at JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty, Tamilnadu, India on 1-15 September 2014 entitled Emerging Trends in Pharmaceutical chemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis.
• International Conference on Antiviral research (ICAR) organized by International Council for Antiviral Research held at Rome, Italy on 10-15 May 2015 and presented paper entitled “ Bioactivity guided Isolation and Characterization of AntiHSV-1 molecules from Nilgirianthus ciliatus”.
• International Conference on Current State of Art Computational Methods In accelerating the Discovery of Novel Biopharmaceuticals conducted by Department Of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty, Tamilnadu, India on 20-21 March 2015.
• Workshop on Drug Development and Neglecter Tropical infectious Diseases organized by Department of Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India on 22-27 February 2015 and presented paper entitled “ Anti-mycobacterial and Antiviral effect of from Nilgirianthus ciliatus”.
• International coneference on Recent Advances in Computational Drug Design organized by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 16-17 September 2013 and presented paper entitled “in silico design, synthesis and antidiabetic  Evaluation of novel DPP-IV inhibitors”.
• PHARMACON III Emerging Trends in Phytopharmaceuticals in Modern medicine held at Nehru College Of Pharmacy, Kerala, india on 14-15 October 2011 and presented paper entitled “Evaluation of antiviral Activity of methanolic extract of Psidium gujava  leaves against HSV-1” and bagged best paper award.