I am currently working as Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vignan’s Foundation for Science, Technology and Research (Deemed to be University) Guntur, India. I have been actively engaged in teaching and research the field of Pharmaceutical and Allied Sciences for over 13 years. I work in the areas of Medicinal Chemistry, computer-aided drug design (CADD), drug discovery for infectious diseases (malaria and bacterial infection), drug repurposing, phytochemistry, and polyphenols. My current research interests include:- Small molecule drug discovery for bacterial infections, malaria, inflammatory disorders- Rational drug design using computational (CADD) tools- Drug repurposing and multi-target drug discovery- Dietary polyphenols and antioxidant effects- Phytomedicine/polyphenol-rich extracts and phytochemical profiling