Dr. Bhagawati Saxena is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University. She has around 14 years of research and teaching experience. She has completed M.S. (Pharm.) from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), S.A.S. Nagar, India and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India. She has received UGC-Junior Research Fellowship and CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship for carrying out her PhD research work. She has worked in the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Ahmedabad for nearly two years as an Assistant Professor. She has International Publications in journals like Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, Pharmacological Reports, Chemico-Biological Interaction, Stress, Fitoterapia etc to her credit. She has attended various seminars, workshops and presented papers at the various national and international level conferences including the one at AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition, New Orleans, USA and Singapore Pharmacy Congress for which she has received full travel assistance from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and INSA-CICS (Indian National Science Academy in association with Centre for International Co-operation in Science) respectively. She is reviewer for many journals like NeuroToxicology, Brain Research Bulletin, Neurotoxicity Research, Molecular Biology Reports etc. She has received the Best Poster award at the International conference of Recent Advances in Pharmaceutical Sciences (RAPS) at IIT (BHU). She has guided 14 post graduate students as Research Guide/Co-Guide. She is also a recognized PhD guide at Nirma University. She is a life member of professional bodies like the Indian Pharmacological Society (IPS), Indian Academy of Neuroscience (IAN), Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI) and Society for Ethnopharmacology (SFE)
