Dr. VISHNU LAL SHARMA
 




Scientist E II
Medicinal & Process Chemistry Division
Central Drug Research Institute,
Lucknow- 226001
 
Educational Qualifications M.Sc., Ph.D.
Date of Birth 07-02-1958
E- Mail vlscdri@rediffmail.com
Date of Birth 07.02.1958
 
 POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
 
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 University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf (Germany) from Oct.1994 to Dec.1994
 
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
 
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 Synthetic Organic Chemistry (28 years)
 
CURRENT AREAS OF INTEREST
 
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 Design and synthesis novel Spermicides with anti-HIV/STI activities, Antispermatogenic agents and
Agents /compounds for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer.
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ( Total Publications - Research Papers 37 Patents 2)
 
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 V. S. Kiran Kumar Srimath Tirumala, Lalit Kumar, Vishnu L. Sharma, Ashish Jain, Rajeev K. Jain, Jagdamba P. Maikhuri, Manish Kumar, Praveen K. Shukla, and Gopal Gupta, “Carbodithioic acid esters of fluoxetine, a novel class of dual-function spermicides” European J. Med.Chem., 2008, 43(10), 2247-2256.
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 Anil Kumar Dwivedi , Vishnu Lal Sharma, Niharika Kumaria, S. T. V. S. Kiran Kumar, Pradeep Kumar Srivastava., Abdul Haq Ansari,. Jagdamba Prasad Maikhuri , Gopal Gupta, Janak Dulari Dhar, Raja Roy, Bhawani Shankar Joshi, Praveen Kumar Shukla , Manish Kumar, and Satyawan Singh, “Synthesis of disulfide esters of dialkylaminocarbothioic acid as potential spermicidal agents” Bioorg. Med.Chem., 2007, 15(21), 6642-6648.
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 V.S. Kiran Kumar S.T., Vishnu Lal Sharma, Pratibha Tiwari, Divya Singh, Jagdamba Prasad Maikhuri, Gopal Gupta & Man Mohan Singh, “ The spermicidal and antitrichomonas activity of SSRI antidepressants” Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 2006, 16(9), 2509-12.
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 S.T.V.S. Kiran Kumar, V.L.Sharma & A.K.Dwivedi, “A simple and convenient method for the synthesis of 1-dialkylaminocarbothioic acid S-[(2,3- epithio)propyl] esters” J. Het. Chem., 2006, 43 (1), 001-005.
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 S.T.V.S. Kiran Kumar, Vishnu Lal Sharma, Manish Kumar, Praveen Kumar Shukla, Pratibha Tiwari, Rajeev Kumar Jain, Jagdamba Prasad Maikhuri, Divya Singh, Gopal Gupta, and Man Mohan Singh,
“Synthesis of Benzenepropanamine analogues as non-detergent spermicides with antitrichomonas and anticandida activities” Bioorg. Med. Chem., 2006, 14(19), 6593-6600.
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 R.K. Jain, J.P. Maikhuri, S.T.V.S. Kiran Kumar, V.L.Sharma, A.K.Dwivedi, K. Maitra, V.K. Bajpai and G. Gupta, “ Novel disulfide esters of carbothioic acid as potent, non-detergent spermicides with low toxicity to Lactobacillus and Hela cells in vitro” Human Reproduction, 2006, 22,708-716.
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 Anita Mukherjee, Mohammed S. Akhtar, Vishnu L. Sharma, Manju Seth, Amiya P. Bhaduri, Anila Agnihotri, Puroshottam K. Mehrotra and Ved Prakash Kamboj, “Synthesis and Bioevaluation of ubstituted Dihydropyridines for Pregnancy- Interceptive Activity in Hamsters”. J. Med. Chem., 1989, 32, 2297-300.