Charmy

Charmy Kothari, Author at Institute of Pharmacy
Institute of Management, Nirma University - Logo

Educational Qualification

    PhD

Research Area

    Pharmaceutical Analysis, Phytopharmacological screening and standardization of herbal drugs, Quality assurance and regulatory affairs, Analytical method development and validation for pharmaceutical ingredients, Analytical method development of small and large molecules, Pharmacovigilance

Designation

  • Associate Professor

Department

  • Pharmaceutical Analysis

PhD Scholars Guided

  • 5

General Information

Specialisation

    Bioanalysis , Pharmaceutical Analysis , Quality Assurance , Regulatory Affairs

About

  • Dr. Charmy S. Kothari has 20 years of teaching and research experience. Her research areas of interest are analytical and bioanalytical method development and validation, impurity profiling and stability studies as well as Isolation, identification and characterization of marker compounds from plants and formulations. Her research area also includes regulatory guidelines, registration procedures, evaluation and approval procedures of various regulatory agencies worldwide as well as Pharmacovigilance system. She has more than 50 research and review papers published in reputed Indian and International journals. Key papers published in prestigious Elsevier journals like Trends in Analytical Chemistry (IF=9.8), Food chemistry (7.5), Arabian J of Chemistry (5.165). She has presented a paper as well as various posters at international, national and state level conferences and received several awards for best oral and poster presentation. She is twice recipient of Dr. P. D. Sethi memorial annual national award for research paper certificate for the year 2007 and 2017. She is actively involved in various capacities in organizing National and International Conferences/Workshops. She has also received financial assistance from GUJCOST for organizing workshop and National seminar. She is a life member of various organisations like RAPS, ACS, APTI, IPA & ISTE. She is a recognized Post Graduate and Ph. D. Guide at Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University. Under her guidance, three PhD students were awarded ICMR-SRF research grant; while one PhD. student received prestigious CM fellowship-SHODH from Government of Gujarat for research work. She received research grants from government funding agencies like GUJCOST, ICMR, DST-BDTD. She also received DST-SERB International Travel Grant to attend International Conference AOAC at Toronto, Canada. She is reviewer of several national & international journals in her research area of interest.