
Professor and Principal
Prof. (Dr.) Shivalingrao N. Mamle Desai
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: M. Pharm., Ph. D
EXPERIENCE: 35 years
PRESENT POSITION: Professor and Principal
DEPARTMENT: Pharmaceutical Chemistry
RESEARCH PROJECTS GUIDED: 50
RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED: Several
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS: 52
PATENTS:Nil
FDP/CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS ATTENDED:05
BOOKS: 04 books
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
Worked as
Executive Committee ( Syndicate) Member, Goa University
Dean faculty of Pharmacy, Goa University
Academic Council Member, Goa University
Chairman, Board of Studies in Pharmacy, Goa Univerity
External Member, Board of Studies in Pharmacy (UG),KLE University (KAHER) Belagavi

Professor
Prof. Celina Nazareth
NAME: Prof. Celina Nazareth
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: B.Pharm, M.Pharm, Ph.D.
EXPERIENCE: 27 years
PRESENT POSITION: Professor
DEPARTMENT: Pharmaceutical Chemistry
RESEARCH PROJECTS GUIDED: 31 M.Pharm, 03 B.Pharm.
RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED: 23
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS: 20
PATENTS: NIL
FDP/CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS ATTENDED: 30
BOOKS CHAPTERS: 02
ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Dada Vaidya Award for scoring the highest marks in Dispensing Pharmacy at IInd Year B.Pharm Examination.
- Secured First Rank and bagged Gold Medal at the Goa UniversityPharm. Examination (1995).
- IPA Award for securing the First Rank at Fourth Year B.Pharm Examination.
- Passed GATE (1995) Examination with a score of 91.31 percentile and AIR of 94.
- Secured First Rank and bagged Gold Medal at Goa University M.Pharm. (Q.A.) Examination at the Goa University (1997).
- IPA Award for securing the First Rank at M.Pharm (Q.A.) Examination.
- An International Travel Grant by Indian Council of Medical Research for oral presentation at the 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Analytical & Bioanalytical Techniques” held at Beijing, China.
- P.D Sethi Annual Award-2013 for the best research paper titled, “Development and Validation of HPTLC method for simultaneous analysis of Olmesartan and Indapamide in bulk drug and combined tablet formulation”.
- First prize in Oral Presentation at the 1st International Conference on “CRIHS” organized by WIP INTER CONS/ IPA, held at Ravindra Bhavan, Margao, Goa, India, in September, 2019.
- First Woman Professor in Goa State Pharmacy Colleges.
PROFESSIONAL BODY MEMBERSHIPS:
- Life member APTI (GO / LM-026).
- Life member IPA, Goa branch (GOA / LM/ 0205).
3 Registered Pharmacist: Goa State Pharmacy Council (No. A-172).
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
- D Guide of Goa University.
- Examiner for Ph.D./M.Pharm. and B.Pharm. examination of Goa and neighboring state Universities.
- Appointed member of Board of Studies in Pharmacy by Goa University.
- Appointed member of Faculty Board in Pharmacy by Goa University.
- Resource person for conducting sessions on Family Welfare Programs.
- Director of Central Assessment Programme (CAP-2016) for the B.Pharm examinations of Goa University (December 2016).
- Served as Student Counselor for PES’s Rajaram and Tarabai Bandekar College of Pharmacy, Farmagudi, Goa.
- Served as Chairperson for Committee for prevention of sexual harassment of women at workplace, at PES’s Rajaram and Tarabai Bandekar College of Pharmacy, Farmagudi, Goa.
- Served as Chairperson for Gender Sensitization Cell of PES’s Rajaram and Tarabai Bandekar College of Pharmacy, Farmagudi, Goa.
- Chief Proctor for maintaining Discipline at PES’s Rajaram and Tarabai Bandekar College of Pharmacy, Farmagudi, Goa.
- Interviewed in Shubhprabhat Program on All India Radio (Mhadei Channel) in connection with International Women’s Day on 7th March 2022.
- Interviewed on Television (Doordarshan) on the topic ‘Arogya Sampada’ on the 12th March 2022 (https://youtu.be/sSIByqgw2kU).
- Organizing Secretary for International E–Symposium organized by the School of Pharmacy, Sultanate of Oman and Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran on “Precision medicine- emerging trends in health care”.
- Invited speaker at Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences Deemed to be University Krishna Institute of Pharmacy, Karad on topic: “Basics in Mass Spectroscopy”.
- Moderator for the inaugural function of the World Congress on Pharmaceutical Sciences (WCPS -2017) held at Goa, India.
- Co-chair for the scientific session of the World Congress on Pharmaceutical Sciences (WCPS -2017) held at Goa, India.
- Co-chair for the M. L. Schroff Memorial Lecture at the 25th Annual National Convention APTICON 2022, held at JSS University, Mysuru.
- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ATTENDED:
- The 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Analytical & Bioanalytical Techniques” during August 18-20, 2014 in Double tree by Hilton Beijing, China for oral presentation.
- The 74th FIP World Congress 2014, during 31 August - September 4, 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand, for poster presentation.
- The 2nd “Global Conference on Pharmaceuticals and Clinical Research”, during November 23-24, 2023 at Dubai, UAE.

Assistant Professor (Senior Scale)
Dr. Leena Sawaikar
NAME: Dr. LEENA SAWAIKAR
QUALIFICATION: B. Pharm., M. Pharm., Ph. D
EXPERIENCE: 17 years
PRESENT POSITION: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT: PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY
RESEARCH PROJECTS GUIDED: 10
RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED: 10
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS: 14
PATENTS:NIL
FDP/CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS ATTENDED: 31
BOOKS: 01
ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Third place in the oral presentation at International Conference on Emerging Trends in Drug Discovery and Development (ICETD3-2022) organized by Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra on 20th and 21st January 2022 and
- Third place in the oral presentation at the two days International Conference Green Chemistry and intellectual property for United Nations Sustainable Development Goals organised by Dyanaprasarak Mandal’s College and Recearch Centre Assagao Bardez in association with Directorate of Higher Education Goa on 22nd and 23rd March 2024
- Delivered a guest lecture on the topic Cancer Chemotherapy at Gomant Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya and Research Centre Shiroda on 11th April 2023 as a part of Samskara a PG orientation program.
- Delivered a lecture on Carcinogenic drugs and Chemicals at the one day Continuing Pharmacy Education programme for pharmacists organised by Goa State Pharmacy Council at the subdistrict hospital Margao on 6th August 2023.
- Delivered a lecture on Viral replication and Medicines at the one day Continuing Pharmacy Education programme for pharmacists organised by Goa State Pharmacy Council at PES’s Rajaram and Tarabai Bandekar Colllege of Pharmacy Farmagudi Ponda Goa on 24th March 2024.
- Delivered a guest lecture on the topic Research Methodology at Gomant Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya and Research Centre Shiroda on 16th January 2024 as a part of Samskara a PG orientation program
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
- Life member APTI (GO / LM-030).
- Registered Pharmacist: Goa State Pharmacy Council (No. A-1009)

Assistant Professor
Mrs. Soniya Phadte
MRS. SONIYA VIJAYSARATHY PHADTE, M. PHARM.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master of Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) 2013, E.S.’s Rajaram and Tarabai Bandekar College of Pharmacy, Farmagudi, Ponda-Goa
- Bachelor of Pharmacy, 2011, Goa College of Pharmacy, Panaji Goa
EXPERIENCE:
10 years and 9 months of Academic experience with 6 years of research experience.
Handling of modern pharmaceutical instruments like synthetic microwave, FTIR, UV spectrophotometer, HPLC, and spectrofluorometer .
Knowledge of software like docking software, Swiss ADME, Protox, Discovery studio, pkcsm, etc., is required for drug design, discovery, and synthesis of small-molecule inhibitors used as anticancer, hypoglycemic, antitubercular, and antimicrobial agents.
PRESENT POSITION:
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, P.E.S’s Rajaram and Tarabai Bandekar College of Pharmacy, Farmagudi. Ponda - Goa from 1st July 2014 till date.
RESEARCH PROJECTS GUIDED
Guided18M. Pharm.(PharmaceuticalChemistry)studentsintheirdissertationwork.
Ongoing: 4 students
RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED: 06
RESEARCH PUBLICATION: National: 08
International: 06
FDP/Conferences/Workshops attended
FDP: offline: 02 Online: 12
Conferences: offline: 07 Online: 22
Workshops: offline: 03 Online: 02
BOOKs: Nil
ACHIEVEMENTS:
- GPAT qualified 2013 and
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Sr. No. | Designation | Institute/Company | From | To |
1. | Assistant
Professor |
Goa College of Pharmacy,
Panaji-Goa |
01/01/2014 | 31/05/2014 |
2. |
Assistant Professor |
P.E.S.’s Rajaram and TarabaiBandekar College of Pharmacy, Farmagudi,
Ponda-Goa |
26/08/2014 |
Till Date |
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION:
- Registered Pharmacist of Goa State Pharmacy Council: No. A-700
- Member of APTI (Reg No. GO/LM-051)
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
- An Examiner for B. and M. Pharm. examinations conducted by Goa University and Outside state Universities.
- Appointed as a Nodal officer for NIRF ranking since July 2020 at the
- Appointed as Women Forum Convenor of APTI-Goa Branch (2022-2027).
- Appointed as chairperson of the committee for the Prevention of sexual harassment of women and internal complaints committee at the institute.
- Appointed as Secretary for the Red Ribbon Club of the Institute.

Assistant Professor
Mrs. Saumya S Vernekar
SAUMYA S. VERNEKAR M.Pharm.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor of Pharmacy, PES’s Rajaram and Tarabai Bandekar College of Pharmacy, Farmagudi Ponda Goa 2012
- Masters in Pharmacy, PES’s Rajaram and Tarabai Bandekar College of Pharmacy, Farmagudi Ponda Goa 2014
- Pursuing D. in Pharmacy from Goa University.
EXPERTISE:
09 years of teaching experience and one year industrial experience.
PRESENT POSITION:
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, PES’s Rajaram and Tarabai Bandekar College of Pharmacy, Farmagudi, Goa, India.
RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED: 05
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:
National -05
PROFESSIONAL BODY MEMBERSHIP:
Registered Pharmacist at Goa state pharmacy council (No:A-900)
ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Secured first rank in Goa University in M.pharm Pharmaceutical Chemistry, August 2014.
- Awarded IPA Gold medal for securing first rank at GOA University for final year B.pharm, April 2012.
- Awarded best poster award at ‘World Congress on Pharmaceutical Sciences’ held on Oct 05-07, 2017 Goa for Development and validation of a UV spectrophotometric method for simultaneous estimation of Naproxen and Sumatriptan.
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
- Examiner for B. Pharm of Goa University.
- Examiner for D.Pharm of BTE
- Appointed as Nodal officer for Scholarships for students applying for national portal and state portal since 2020.
- Served as active organizing committee member in the 53rd IHPA Annual International Conference 2018.

Assistant Professor
Ms. Chaitali Satish Prabhu Tendulkar
Chaitali Satish Prabhu Tendulkar, M.Pharm
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
EXPERIENCE:
Sr.
No. |
Designation | Institute/Company | From | To |
1 | Assistant Professor | PES’s Rajaram and Tarabai Bandekar college of Pharmacy, Farmagudi, Ponda-
Goa |
16/08/2018 | Till date |
2 | Junior
Executive |
Abbott India Pvt
Ltd, Verna Goa |
July 2015 | July 2017 |
3 | Senior Officer | Teva Pharma India,
Verna Goa |
July 2017 | August 2018 |
PRESENT POSITION: Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
DEPARTMENT: Pharmaceutical Chemistry RESEARCH PROJECTS GUIDED: 02 (B.Pharm) RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED: 03 RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS: 03
PATENTS: NIL
FDP/CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS ATTENDED: 26
BOOKS: NIL
ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Goa University 3rd rank holder for Pharm (Pharmaceutical Chemistry)
- Goa University 3rd rank holder Third year B Pharm examination
- Won Prizes at National & State Level poster competitions held by State Pharmacy Council.
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
Professional Body Membership:
- Life member of Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI)
- Nominated as Co-ordinator Women’s forum of Goa State APTI branch for the tenure of five years (2022-2027)
Coordinated a Free Medical Camp and Health Awareness Program Organized and facilitated a free medical camp on 11th December 2022, which included health checkups by specialists in ophthalmology, orthopedics, dermatology and gynecology.

Assistant Professor
Ashwini Anil Jadhav
Ashwini .A. Jadhav, M.Pharm- Pharmaceutical Chemistry
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: M.Pharm- Pharmaceutical Chemistry
EXPERIENCE:
Jr. Officer at Indoco Remedies Ltd, March 2016- September 2019.
PRESENT POSITION:
Assistant Professor -Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department
DEPARTMENT:
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department
RESEARCH PROJECTS GUIDED: -
RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED: 1
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS: 1
PATENTS: -
FDP/CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS ATTENDED: 20
BOOKS: 0
ACHIEVEMENTS: -
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
Sr. No. | Date | Activities conducted |
01 | From 13th February to 11th March 2023 | Arranged One month industrial / Pharmacy training placements for third year students |
02 | From 19th February to 05th March 2024 | Arranged One month industrial / Pharmacy training placements for third year students From 19th February to 05th March 2024 |
03 | (2022-2027) | Nominated as State Executive Council Member of Goa State APTI
|

Assistant Professor
Miss. Prachita Gauns Dessai
Ms. Prachita Gauns Dessai, M.Pharm
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: M.Pharm in Pharmaceutical Chemistry
EXPERIENCE: 3 years
PRESENT POSITION: Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT: Pharmaceutical Chemistry
RESEARCH PROJECTS GUIDED: 2(B.Pharm students)
RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED: 02
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS: 04(International), 01(National)
PATENTS: 02
FDP/CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS ATTENDED: 18
BOOKS:00
ACHIEVEMENTS:
Gold medalist at Goa University for M.Pharm in pharmaceutical chemistry (2020)
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
- Member of APTI

Assistant Professor
Ms Sahili Sadanand Naik
Name: Ms Sahili Sadanand Naik
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: M. PHARM .
EXPERIENCE: 2 YEARS
PRESENT POSITION: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT: PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY
RESEARCH PROJECTS GUIDED: 01
RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED: 02
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS: 01
PATENTS: NIL
FDP/CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS ATTENDED: 06
BOOKS: NIL
ACHIEVEMENTS: Gold medal in Bpharm at Goa University
Second rank in Mpharm in pharmaceutical Chemistry at Goa university
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES: