Pulok Mukherjee

Pulok Kumar Mukherjee is an Indian scientist working as the Director of Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, an autonomous Institute under Department of Biotechnology, Govt.

of India, Imphal, Manipur, India; as well as an Associate Editor of the Phytomedicine Plus; Consulting Editor of the Pharmacological Research published by Elsevier.

He is the Professor (on lien) of Pharmaceutical technology at the Jadavpur University and former Director of the School of Natural Product Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Mukherjee obtained both his PhD and Master's in pharmacy from Jadavpur University in Jadavpur, Kolkata.

He then attended Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research in the Netherlands as a postdoctoral researcher.

Mukherjee is a past President of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology and Founder member of the Society for Ethnopharmacology, India (SFE-India), Kolkata, India.

Prof. Mukherjee is working on traditional medicine inspired drug discovery and development from Indian medicinal plants with major emphasis on their validation, formulation and standardization, metabolomic profiling, safety documentation and related aspects.

He has made significant contributions on translational research in biomedical sciences for drug discovery and development through evidence-based validation and documentation of traditional medicine for their quality, safety and efficacy.

He has made several innovative and outstanding contributions in academics and research in the area of natural product studies, Ethnopharmacology and evidence-based validation of herbs used in traditional medicine.

He has contributed a lot on evaluation and validation of drugs and pharmaceuticals from medicinal plants including their chemo-profiling, quality evaluation, safety documentation, related to the bioprospecting of medicinal plants leading to the development of safe and efficacious products.

Prof Mukherjee has also been working for the development of an electronic probe device (e-nose) with the help of Raman and Infrared spectroscopy which can have useful for evaluation of medicinal plants and products having adulterants and contaminants.

Prof. Mukherjee and his team have been working on the DNA barcoding and Next generation sequencing for quality evaluation of MAPs.

He has synergized different research activities to catalyze and strengthen the bio-economy from bioresources of the North Eastern Region of India.

Prof. Mukherjee has also been instrumental in establishing the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) facility at IBSD, Imphal.

His multidisciplinary concerted efforts for drug development from Indian medicinal plants (IMPs) and their validation with special emphasis on quality control, safety-related quality issues, synergy, value-added formulation development, metabolomics, marker profiling and related aspects have been appreciated by several industries and products have been developed, technology has been transferred through University-Industry collaborations.

His works on systematic data mining for validation of Indian medicinal plants are useful bio-prospecting tools for developing safe and effective products with scientific evidence, to bridge the gap between traditional medicine and modern science.

. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Science, India (FNASc); the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (FRSC) and fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India (FNAAS).

Major highlights are as follows:

Mukherjee and his group has published more than 230 publications in peer-reviewed reputed journals and contributed over 20 book chapters and authored, edited 7 books on different aspects of quality control, validation, efficacy evaluation, safety documentation on herbs and herbal formulations.

His works will help in the development of standardized, synergistic, safe and effective medicinal plants, which can offer economical and better alternatives in health care for the community at large.

Evidence-Based Validation of Herbal Medicine, Elsevier (ISBN 9780128008744).

Quality Control and Evaluation of Herbal Drugs, Elsevier (ISBN 9780128133743).

Evaluation of Herbal Medicinal Products, Pharmaceutical Press (ISBN 9780853697510).

Natural Medicines - Clinical Efficacy, Safety and Quality, CRC Press (ISBN 9781138733060).

Mukherjee has been working extensively on the dissemination of knowledge for the promotion of ethnopharmacology, ethnomedicine and Medicinal and aromatic plant research at large.

He has organized several very effective and successful International/National conferences/ workshops/symposiums with the involvement of renowned scientists and resource persons all over the world to develop national international collaborations and coordination.

Some of his contributions on the dissemination of knowledge in this area are as follows:

http://www.ethnopharmacology.in http://www.ethnopharmacology.org

http://www.pulokmukherjee.in https://www.ibsd.gov.in