Clinical Pharmacology

Undergraduate Research Projects

2003
1. For Project entitled " Evaluation of the utility of therapeutic drug monitoring for patients of bipolar disorder" under the Indian Council
of Medical Research's STS scheme (short term studentship) for 3rd MBBS student, Urmi Sheth, May-July 2003.

2. Project entitled " Evaluation of efficacy of azithromycin in patients of drug-induced gingival hyperplasia."under the Indian Council of Medical Research's STS scheme (short term studentship) for 3rd MBBS student, Neha Goyal, May-July 2003.

3. For Project entitled " Evaluation baseline characteristics and biochemical markers in patients of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum malaria, under the Indian Council of Medical Research's STS scheme (short term studentship) for 3rd MBBS student,
Kevin Patel, May-July 2003.

2004
Kishore Vygyanik Prothsahan Yojana (KVPY) undergraduate studentships sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology-2004

-Kiran Sahane, 2nd year MBBS student- Project on "Time to thrombolysis in a tertiary referral centre", August-September 2004

-Amrut Borade, 2nd year MBBS student- Project on "Pharmacoeconomics of malaria", August-September 2004. This project was
short listed by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for the award.

2005
Kishore Vygyanik Prothsahan Yojana (KVPY) undergraduate studentships sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology

-Divya Bajpai, 1st year medical student - Evaluation of adverse events presenting to a tertiary referral center and their economic
burden. This project won the KVPY award for the year 2005, awarded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) sponsored undergraduate studentships
1. Abizer Kapadia, IIIrd MBBS student- Can we predict anti-tubercular drug induced hepatotoxicity? : Use of the lymphocyte toxicity test as a predictive tool in patients with anti-tubercular drug induced hepatotoxicity.

2. Karishma Mehra, IIIrd MBBS student- Suitability of saliva as a biological matrix for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of anti-epileptics in children and adults with epilepsy: a comparison with plasma.

3. Abbas Rupawala, IIIrd MBBS student- Evaluation of pharmacokinetics of intravenous Phenytoin as a guide to dosing and therapy in patients with head injury receiving prophylactic antiepileptic therapy

4. Uday Kulkarni, IInd MBBS student- Saliva as a non-invasive matrix for therapeutic drug monitoring of digoxin in children