Dr.Pulok K. Mukherjee is currently working as Director, School of Natural Product Studies, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.He has been working on Traditional medicine (TM) inspired drug development, based on the scientific validation of TM through the screening, evaluation, formulation and standardization. He contributed over 150 publications in peer reviewed impact journals, several patents, 17 books and chapters on evaluation of botanicals. He has delivered over 130 Scientific Lectures at various international and national podiums.
Dr.Pulok Mukherjee is a pharmacist and completed his master and PhD in pharmacy from Jadavpur University and post doctoral research from Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Netherlands. He has been admitted as Fellow of the Royal Society of chemistry [FRSC], UK. Dr.Pulok K. Mukherjee has worked as visiting scientist in several renowned universities abroad including The School of Pharmacy London; King's College, London; Leiden/Amsterdam Center for drug Research, Netherlands; School of Health science, Tokushima University, Japan; Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa; School of Oriental Medicine, Korea and others.
He has been awarded with the following prestigious awards:Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship from Associationof Commonwealth Universities, UK; -Outstanding Service Award from Drug Information association [DIA], USA; -Career Award for Young Teacher from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Govt. of India; -Overseas Award from Department of Biotechnology (DBT), BOYSCAST Fellowship from Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India;
Young Pharmacy Teacher Award from Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India; IPA Fellowship -Award from the Indian Pharmaceutical Association [IPA] and many others.
Dr.Pulok Mukherjee has to his credit "Traditional Medicines and Globalization - The Future of Ancient Systems of Medicine", the first ever mega ISE congress held in India on globalizing local knowledge and localizing global technologies in the area of traditional medicine.