VINEETA CHATURVEDI
 
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Scientist E-II
Drug Target Discovery & Development Division
Central Drug Research Institute
LUCKNOW

 
Educational qualifications M.Sc., Ph.D.
Date of Birth

10.07.1963

E mail vinitacdri@rediffmail.com
 
AREA OF RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION
 
  • Microbiology and immunology of mycobacterial infections
  • TB Drug Discovery
 
ACADEMIC AWARDS/ HONOURS
 

HIGH QUAILTY RESEARCH WORK Award (1987) of Hamdard National Foundation .

YOUNG SCIENTIST Award ( 1989) of Indian Science Congress.
ACWORTH LEPROSY HOSPITALRESEARCH SOCIETY AWARD (1992) of Indian Association of Leprologists.
IMMUNOLOGY FOUNDATION AWARD (2007) of Indian Association of Leprologists.
 
PUBLICATIONS
 
Over 35 original papers in referred journals.
 
PATENTS
 

4 Foreign
10 Indian

PRESENT AREA OF ACTIVITY
 

Mycobacteria- TB Drug Discovery

 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 
Ghosh S, Tiwari P, Pandey S, Misra AK, Chaturvedi V, Gaikwad A, Bhatnagar S and Sinha S - Synthesis and evaluation of antitubercular activity of glycosyl thio- and sulfonyl acetamide derivatives (2008) - Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 18, 4002-5
Parai MK, Panda G, Chaturvedi V, Manju YK and Sinha S - Thiophene containing triarylmethanes as antitubercular agents (2008) - Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 18, 289-292
Singh BK, Yadav AK, Kumar B, Gaikwad AN, Sinha SK, Chaturvedi V and Tripathi RP - Preparation and reactions of sugar azides with alkynes: synthesis of sugar triazoles as antitubercular agents (2008) - Carbohydrate Research 343, 1153-1162
Vinita Chaturvedi, B K. Girdhar, U Sengupta and S Sinha, 2007. Semi-quantitative detection of Mycobacterium leprae antigens in skin scrapings: Suitability as a laboratory aid for field diagnosis of leprosy. Transactions of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 101, 699-706.
M Saquib, MK Gupta, R Sagar, YS Prabhakar, AK Shaw, R Kumar, PR Maulik, A Gaikwad, S Sinha, AK Srivastava, Vinita Chaturvedi, R Srivastava, BS Srivastava, 2007. C-3 alkyl/arylalkyl1-2,3-dideoxy hex-2-enopyranosides as antitubercular agents: synthesis, biological evaluation and QSAR study. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 50, 2942-50.
Vinita Chaturvedi, N Dwivedi, RP Tripathi and S Sinha, 2007. Identification and evaluation of Mycobacterium smegmatis as a possible surrogate screen for selecting molecules active against multi-drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 53, 333-337.
G Panda, MK Parai, SK Das, Shagufta, M Sinha, Vinita Chaturvedi, AK Srivastava, YK Manju, AN Gaikwad, S Sinha, 2007. Effect of substituents on diarylmethanes for antitubercular activity. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 42, 410-419.
D Katiyar, VK Tiwari, N Tewari, SS Verma, S Sinha, A Gaikwad, A Srivastava, Vinita Chaturvedi, R Srivastava, BS Srivastava, RP Tripathi, 2005. Synthesis and antimycobacterial activities of glycosylated amino alcohols and amines. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 40, 351-360.
 
Chaturvedi V and Gupta HP. 2001. Evaluation of integral membrane antigens of Mycobacterium habana for serodiagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis : Association between levels of antibodies and Mycobacterium Tuberculosis antigens. FEMS Immunol MED Microbiol 33, 1-7.
 
Chaturvedi V, Srivastava A, Gupta HP and Srivastava BS.1999. Protective proteins of Mycobacterium habana are distributed between peripheral and integral compartments of plasma membrane. A study in experimental tuberculosis of mouse. Vaccine 17: 2882-2887
 
Chaturvedi V, Sinha S,Girdhar B K,Katoch K, Bhatia A S and Sengupta U.1991. Association of mycobacterium –specific and M.leprae specific antibody levels with clinical activity in tuberculoidleprosy: Acomparative study of three serological enzyme assays. Lepr Rev 62: 122-133