Funding
Ongoing Projects
External Funded Project
26. Project Title: Chemometrics as Inventive Tool for Quality Assessment of Medicinal Plants: A Case Study with Aconitum heterophyllum (Nation Priority Plant).
Duration: 36 Months (Upto November 2024) (Role: PI)
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB).
File No.: CRG/2021/000878.
25. Project Title: Development of Chemomatric Database: A Futuristic Approach for the Quality Assurance of Commercially Important Himalayan Medicinal Plants.
Duration: 36 Months (Upto Februray 2026) (Role: PI)
Funding Agency: National Medcinal Plant Board (NMPB).
File No.: Z.18017/187/CSS/R&D/HP-01/2022-23-NMPB-IV A.
24. Project Title: Collection, Conservation and Characterization of Fritillaria cirrhosa germplasm.
Duration: 36 Months (Upto Februray 2026) (Role: Co-PI)
Funding Agency: National Medcinal Plant Board (NMPB).
File No.: Z.18017/187/CSS/R&D/HP-02/2022-23-NMPB-IV A.
23. Project Title: Value Addition and Product Diversification in Tea.
Duration: 36 Months (Upto March 2025) (Role: Co-PI)
Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology (NER-BPMC)
File No.: BT/PR45264/NER/95/1920/2022.
22. Project Title: Process optimization and up-scale production of lignocellulosic extremozymes from Himalayan microbes for biomass
valorization/depolymerization.
Duration: 36 Months (Upto March 2025) (Role: Co-PI)
Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology (NER-BPMC)
File No.: BT/PR45190/NER/95/1902/2022.
21. Project Title: Technology Trasfer Agreement to establish processing technology for extraction of steviol glycosides.
Duration: 60 Months (Upto 2028) (Role: Co-PI)
Funding Agency: Industry.
CSIR-Agri Nutri Biotech Mission
20. Project Title: CRM 2-Candidate Indian Certified Reference Materials (CRMs)/ Bhartiya Nirdeshak Dravya (BND) of Phyto & Aroma Chemicals for Quality and Safety Assessment of Derived Products.
Duration: 24 Months (Upto March 2026) (Role: Co-PI).
Funding Agency: CSIR Agri Nutri Biotech Mission.
File No.: No.FTT-FTC/02/05/IMD/2023.
CSIR-Specialty Chemicals for Industrial Applications Mission
19. Project Title: Tannins from Regenerable Parts of Plants for Vegetable Tanning.
Duration: 36 Months (Upto March 2027) (Role: Nodel)
Funding Agency: CSIR Mission Mode Project Specialty Chemicals for Industrial Applications.
File No.: No.4/SPECHEM/2023-IMD.
CSIR-Aroma Mission (Phase-III)
18. Project Title: CSIR-Aroma Mission.
Duration: 36 Months (Upto March 2026) (Role: Co-PI)
Funding Agency: CSIR
File No.: -
Completed Projects
17. Project Title: Bio-prospecting and product development from Curcuma longa (turmeric) in Uttarakhand.
In collaboration: Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Utterakhand.
Duration: 18 Months (Upto September 2022) (Role: Co-PI)
Funding Agency: Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, DST, Uttarakhand
CSIR-Agri Nutri Biotech Mission
16. Project Title: Exploration of Himalayan Plants for Novel Antimalarial Agents: Characterization of potential molecules (Phase II).
Duration: Three Years (Upto March 2023).
15. Project Title: Next generation genomics for genetaic improvement of Stevia rebaudiana.
Duration: Three Years (Upto March 2023). (Role: Co-PI)
CSIR-Immunity Mission
14. Project Title: Development of nutraceutical formulation for kidney health.
Duration: Two Years (Upto March 2023). (Role: Co-PI)
13. Project Title: Development of Immunomodulatory Products based on Carum carvi and Bunium persicum.
Duration: Two Years (Upto March 2023). (Role: Co-PI)
CSIR-Aroma Mission (Phase-II)
12. Project Title: Value-Addition of Aromatic Crops.
Duration: Three Years (Upto March 2023). (Role: Co-PI)
CSIR-EMR
11. Project Title: Development of the natural glycoside (stevioside/rebaudioside A) based drug delivery nano-probe-carrier for cancer therapeutics.
Duration: Three Years (Upto March 2023). (Role: Co-PI)
CSIR-Healthcare Mission: Drugs and APIs for COVID-19
10. Project Title: Evaluating SARS-CoV-2 Main protease (Mpro) inhibitors identified from the library of FDA approved drugs and novel CSIR molecules.
(IMTECH & IHBT)
Duration: Half Year (Upto Nov. 2020). (Role: PI)
CSIR-Agri Nutri Biotech Mission
9. Project Title: Exploration of Himalayan Plants for Novel Antimalarial Agents: Characterization of potential molecules (Phase I).
Duration: Two Years (Upto March 2020). (Role: PI)
8. Project Title: Identification of improved clone(s) of Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni).
Duration: Two Years (Upto March 2020). (Role: Co-PI)
7. Project Title: Development of process for converting raw cellulosic biomass into textile fiber and nanocellulose.
Duration: Two Years (Upto March 2020). (Role: Co-PI)
CSIR-Pytopharmaceutical Mission
6. Project Title: Phytopharmaceutical development from as Cissampelos pareira per regulatory guidelines of AYUSH
Duration: Three years (Upto March 2020) (Role: PI)
5. Project Title: Technology Packages for production of GMP grade medicinal plant extracts of Ginkgo biloba.
Duration: Three years (Upto March 2020) (Role: PI)
4. Project Title: Phytochemical investigation of selected high value rare, endangered and threatened (RET) medicinal Plants .
Duration: Three years (Upto March 2020) (Role: PI)
CSIR-Nutraceuticals and Nutritionals Mission
3. Project Title: Nutraceutical formulation for boosting bone and cartilage health.
Duration: Two years (Upto March 2020) (Role: Co-PI)
2. Project Title: A kaempferol-enriched nutraceutical formulation for ageing bone: to concurrently stop bone loss and restoring lost bone. (CDRI, IHBT)
Duration: One year (Upto August 2019) (Role: Co-PI)
DST Funded Project
1. Project Title: Transition Metal Catalyzed Simultaneous Distant C-H Activation and Hetero-atom Transfer:
Direct Synthesis of Bioactive Derivatives of Heterocyclic Compounds.
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, DST, India (EMR/2014/001023)
Duration: Three years (From 5th October, 2015 to 4th October 2018) (Role: PI)
Industrial Assignment Completed
Jagsonpal Pharmaceutical Limited on developing analytical methods for their reaction mixture and isolation of reaction products.