Areas Of Specialization
Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance
Renowned academician, researcher and administrator in pharmacy domain, Dr.Pancholihas more than 28 years of experience. Before joining at Shirpur campus of SVKMs NMIMS as Associate Dean SPTM, he has served as Principal, Shree S K Patel College of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, as well as Executive Dean Faculty of Pharmacy(FoP) & Faculty of Science (FoS) at Ganpat University (2020 – 2023); as Professor at Jazan University, Saudi Arabia (2014-2020), as Principal at Babaria Institute of Pharmacy Vadodara (2010-2014). Dr.Pancholihas worked with Core Healthcare Ltd. for 2 years as TQM officer and lead the team for ISO certification. He is in Pharmacy teaching profession since 1997 and has worked in different capacities at Lachoo College, Jodhpur, B R Nahata College, Mandsaur, Dhanvantary College, Kim, Ganpat University, Babaria Institute, Jazan University and ISFCP Moga.He is a graduate (B. Pharm.) from B N Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Udaipur. He has worked on "Chromatographic fingerprinting of Ocimum species” for his M.Pharm. (Quality Assurance) under supervision of Prof. C. J. Shishoo, and Prof. S. A. Shah, at L.M. College of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad. His Ph. D Dissertation work was on "Preparation and Characterization of Fast Dissolution Dosage Forms of Some Poorly Soluble Drugs”, supervised by Prof. G.P. Agrawal, at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. H.S. Gour University, Sagar. He is also a Law graduate (LLB) from JNV University, Jodhpur and has obtained General Certificate on Intellectual Property from WIPO academy and PGDIPR from IGNOU.
He has guided 28- B.Pharm. Projects; 35- M. Pharm.; 10 Pharm.D and 18- Ph.D, students. Currently 3 PG and 5 PhD scholars are pursuing their research under his supervision. He has to his credit 2 Indian Patents and 2 design patents published and 100 plus publications (36- international and 61- national) and 48 presentations in conferences and 21 invited lectures. He has been invited in various seminars to chair and evaluate the scientific proceedings and has convened seminars and conferences. He has undertaken several industrial, research and consultancy projects regulatory documentation, delivery systems, and analytical problem solving for KSH-Fiberich US, Vasa Pharmachem, Gujarat Minechem etc and granted project from AICTE, GUJCOST-DST, INSA, SERB etc. He has convened QIPs, STTPs, SDPs and National as well as International Conferences. He is an active life member of APTI, ICS, SPER and IPA. His interest includes- Formulation development, Analysis, Quality management and IPR.
