Prof. Dr. Gita Chawla

Alternate Email :

gita.chawla@yahoo.in

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Professor & HOD

Department & School :

Pharmaceutical Chemistry, SPER

Qualifications :

M.Pharm. PhD

State Of Domicile :

Delhi

Research Thrust Areas :

Synthetic medicinal chemistry and Pharmaceutical analysis, Design and synthesis of bioactive molecules with special reference to heterocyclic moieties in the field of anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antidepressant, antianxiety and antidiabetic activities

Details Of Courses Taught

B.Pharm.-Inorganic medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry, Pharmaceutical Organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry including practical. Practice school, Project work M.Pharm.- Advanced organic chemistry-1, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Practical-1, Advanced Pharmaceutical Analysis, Pharmaceutical Analysis Practical 1,Food analysis, Herbal and cosmetic analysis, Seminar, Research work, PhD- Course work- Research guidance

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3 book chapters.

1. Chawla G, Pradhan T, Gupta O. The Challenges of Developing Norovirus Vaccines and Therapies. Emerging Infectious Disease: Unravelling Norovirus and Pandemic Dynamics. 2026 Apr 21:359-78.

2. Chawla G, Gupta O, Pradhan T. Role of AI in molecular cancer pharmacology. InEmerging Trends in Cancer Pharmacology 2026 Jan 1 (pp. 209-233). Academic Press.

3. Chawla G, Pradhan T. 2 lead-hit-based methods for drug design and ligand identification. Computational Drug Discovery: Molecular Simulation for Medicinal Chemistry. 2024 Oct 7:23.

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Academic Press, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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2

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ICMR and DST-SERB (Rs. 90,38,441/-)

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Felicitated with Certificate of Appreciation on National Science Day, February 27th 2026, for publishing a research article in high impact journal. 

Felicitated with Certificate of Recognition on National Science Day, February 28th 2017, for publishing a research paper in the Arabian Journal of Chemistry with an impact factor more than 3 by Jamia Hamdard

Felicitated with Certificate of Appreciation on National Science Day, February 28th 2024, for receiving a Research grant from ICMR, New Delhi.

Felicitated with Certificate of Recognition on National Science Day, February 28th 2024, for an article published in Open Chemistry Journal with citation more than 100.

Secured 2nd position as research paper presenter in 26th Annual conference of IPGA held on 2nd April 2011, New Delhi.

Junior research fellowship by UGC in 1990.

Senior Research Fellowship by UGC in 1992.

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Jamia Hamdard

Jamia Hamdard

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Coordinated lecture series 2021 of SPER.

Organized one-day online workshop on “Cloud-based Hands-on Workshop: Rational Computational Drug Design Approaches” in collaboration with Schrodinger, May 4, 2022.

Organized a two-day Cloud-based Hands-on Workshop on “Computationally Driven Drug Design Workflows” in collaboration with Schrodinger on 29-30th March 2023.

Organized a one-day workshop on “Infrared Spectroscopy Unleased: Workshop on Bruker Alpha II Operation” on 6th September 2023 in collaboration with Lab India Analytical Instruments Pvt. Ltd. 

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Sponsoring Agency :

1. Acting as Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, SPER.
2. Acting as Chairperson, SGRC (Students Grievance Redressal Committee)
3. Acting as Chairperson, EOC (Equal Oportunity Cell)
4. Worked as team leader to coordinate flying squad work assigned by the University many times.
5. Acted as convenor and Deputy superintendent to conduct various examinations such as DODL, Medical entrance, PhD examinations, etc.
6. Acted as a member of the admission committee and admission promotion committee.
7. Acted as member of faculty-level anti-ragging committee.
8. Acting as a teacher in charge to conduct sessional examinations of B. Pharm and M. Pharm courses and conducted PhD examinations also.
9. Acted as a member of the convocation organizing committee.
10. Acted as tabulator of examination work.
11. Acted as member of the board of research studies, board of studies and academic council.