MUKESH DOBLE
Professor
Bioengineering and Drug Design

Room No. BT 204
Tel: 91-44-2257 4107(O)
Tel: 91-44-2257 5122(L)
mukeshd@iitm.ac.in
mukesh.doble0@gmail.com

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Research Interests

1. Drug Design and QSAR for Anti-inflammatory, Antimicrobial, Antidiabetic,TB

*    Enzyme-Ligand Binding studies
*    Synergy of natural products and synthetic drugs
*    Modelling of drug delivery systems (polymer and drug- Interactions)

2. Polymers in Medical Applications

*    Analysis of arterial explants, urinary stents
*    Bacterial adhesion, Surface modifications

3. Biodegradation/Biofouling of Polymers

*    Marine and soil organism mediated
*    Biosurfactant


4. Scale-up of Chemical processes – (Rubber Chemicals, Plastics, Specialty Chemicals,    Explosives, Pharmaceuticals and Paints).

* Bioreactor design
* Reaction mechanism studies of homogeneous, heterogeneous and enzyme catalysed reactions

5. Systems modelling (EEG and disease classification, pathway of Parkinson disease)

6. Statistical process control, Biostatistics and Six-Sigma.

Educational Background

*    PhD: Process Control, University of Aston, Birmingham, UK

*    M Tech: Process control, Chemical engineering, I.I.T. Madras

*    B Tech: Chemical engineering , I.I.T. Madras

Post Doctoral Experience

*    Chemical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, USA (1988 - '89).

*    Chemical Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, UK (1980 - '83).

Honors and Awards
*     Editorial Board of open Enzyme Inhibition Journal(2008-)
*     Editorial Board of open Petroleum Engineering Journal(2008-)
*     Editorial Board of Chemical Engineering, McGraw Hill Publ, USA (2003-)
*     Indian Institute of Chemical engineers 'Herdilla award' for Excellence in Basic
       research in Chemical engineering (1995).
*     Prof Kane visiting fellowship, UICT, Bombay (2003-2004)
*     Lupin India visiting fellowship, UICT, Bombay (2002)
*     Dai Ichi Karkaria Fellowship, UICT, Bombay (2000)
*     Chinnamaul prize for best technical paper presented, IIChE Annual conf (1994).
*     Commonwealth scholarship for doing PhD at UK