Professional Experience63

• Worked as the Director, Nirma University of Science & Technology,

• Director, School of Sciences, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad  

• Professor and Head, Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Technology Engineering, M. S. University of Baroda .

• Served  at NCL, Pune, IIT, Bombay, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, IISc, Bangalore  in various capacities. Prof.  

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Professional Services

Seminars, Conferences, Workshops & Posters:

• Poster presented in national conference entitled” Development and Validation of UV Spectrophotometric Method for the determination of Metformin HCl, Rosuvastatin Calcium and Telmisartan in bulk drug” at 69th IPC, Varanasi, 2017

• Poster Presentation Accepted for presentation entitled” Formulation, Evaluation and Optimization of Floating Oral In-situ Gelling System to treat gastric ulcers caused by H. Pylori infection” with abstract id 10203 in at the 41st Annual Meeting & Exposition of the Controlled Release Society, July 13 – 16, in the Hilton Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2014

• Attended the 28th Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacy Graduates’ Association (IPGA) on “Pharmaceutical issues and challenges of new decades” on 23rd Feb.,2013 as delegate at Hotel Grand Cambay, Ahmedabad, 2013

• Attended National Symposium on Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences (NSIPS-2013) on “Innovative insights on the Pharmaceutical Industry” as delegate, held on 16th Feb.,2013 at AMA, Ahmedabad, 2013

• Attended “APOCALYPSE-2012” at KBIPER, Gandhinagar as Judge of “MASTERMIND-2012”

• Abstract entitled: “Implementation of E-Prescribing in India- Beneficial or Detrimental” accepted for oral presentation in the International Conference on “The future vision and challenges in Hospital Pharmacy”, Bangkok, Thailand, 2012

• Attended the National Conference on "Innovations In Pharmaceutical Industry' on 28th-29th Jan, 2012 as judge in the pharmaceutical technology section of scientific poster presentation as well as the member of Organizing committee at LJ Campus, 2012

• Attended a workshop on Entrepreneurship organized by iCreate on 26th-27th Jan, 2012 at LJ Campus.

• Attended the two day workshop on ‘Patenting in Pharmaceuticals” organized by Gujarat Technological University on 3rd – 4th Sept, 2011

• Poster Presentation Accepted for presentation entitled” Formulation and optimization of Gastric floating matrix tablets of Norfloxacin with combination of polymers using Box-Behnken experimental design” as Poster 597 in Poster Session II: Oral Controlled Release Technologies at the 37th Annual Meeting & Exposition of the Controlled Release Society (CRS), at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR, USA , 2010

• Poster presented in national conference entitled” Formulation and Optimization of “Floating Multiple

• Unit Lipid Granules against H.pylori Infection” at 61st IPC, Ahmedabad, 2009

• Attended the one day seminar on “Intellectual Property Rights: Oppurtunities and Challenges” at Anand on 10th Sept, 2009

• Attended the national seminar on “Frontiers in Nanotechnology: A Pharmaceutical Perspective” as

• delegate at Nirma University, Ahmedabad on 20th March,2009

• Attended Faculty Development Program (FDP) organized by ICFAI University at Ahmedabad, 2008

• Poster presented in national conference entitled” Formulation, Characterization and Optimization of Multiple emulsion containing Isoniazid for Pediatric Tuberculosis (T.B.) disease” at 59th IPC, Varanasi, 2007

• Attended the Symposium on “Scientific writing: Skills and Ethics” organized by Shri B. M. Shah College of Pharmaceutical education and research, Modasa, Gujarat. 2007

• Attended the INDO-US/EU seminar organized by IPA-Industrial Pharmacy Division as delegate at Ahmedabad on 28th March. 2007

Research Guidence      

Research Papers

Article Published 

Books

Awards & Achievements

• Prof. Y. K. Agrawal has more than 45 years of teaching and research experience and published more than 500 research papers in International Journals of repute, 5 patents, guided 117 Ph. D. students in (Pharmacy, Chemistry, Engineering Forensic, and Bio-sciences) and also 70 M. Pharm., 5 M. Phil and 5 ME students. He is the first to receive the grant as Excellent in Nanotechnology by Gujcost in 2004. He is a Recipient of “Russian Science Academy Award 1985”, Hari Om Ashram Award 1989, Hari Om Ashram Award 1991, Royal Society of Chemistry, London Research Award in 1997, 1998 (on Supramolecules in Nanotechnology), H. K. Sen Memorial Award in Pharmaceutical Science, 1998, Dr. A. K. Ganguli Oration Award 2000 in Environmental Science, P. K. Bose memorial Award 2001, IDMA Eminent Pharmaceutical Analyst Award 2003, CSIR Bronze Medal for research contribution in Chemistry 2004, Dr. V.T. Athwale Award 2005 and IIT New Delhi SPARCS Award for outstanding work in Application on Research in Chemical Systems for Nano particles 2006. Prof. W.U.Malik Memorial Award-2009 as an eminent Indian Scientist in the field of chemistry by Indian Council of Chemists. He is a member of International Advisory Board of Fullerene Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructure (USA) and also Author of Fullerene Derivatives and their Analytical Applications being published by Kluwer (USA). He is a Member of Editorial Board mainly Inorganic Chemistry (Bentham),Mini Res.Rev.(Bentham), Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Indian Drugs, Indian Journal of Chemistry, Chemical Research etc. Prof. Agrawal has organized the National Seminar on Supramolecules, Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine since 2001 till date. Recently he has started MS programme in Forensic Nanotechnology. He is a member of the Atomic Energy, UGC, DST, CSIR, DSIR etc. and Indian Representative of Asian Analytical Society, Japan