Group Alumni

Past Graduate Students

Name, Year of Graduation, Thesis Title

Alekha Kumar Dash
Ph.D., 1990; Development of Implantable Polmeric Drug Delivery Systems to Treat Bone Infections

Srinivasan Venkatesh
Ph.D., 1993; Characterization of Polymer-Mucin Bioadhesive Systems

Nithya Iyer
M.S., 1994; Effect of Storage Under High Relative Humidity on the Properties of Carbamazepine Tablets

Neelima V. Phadnis
Ph.D., 1997; Novel Applications of X-ray Powder Diffractometry in the Study of Pharmaceutical Solids

Jitesh Tank
M.S., 1997; Changes in the Solid-State of Tehophylline upon Aqueous Wet Granulation

Jun Han
Ph.D., 1998; Influence of Enrionmental Conditions on the Dehydration of Pharmaceutical Hydrates

Raghu Cavatur
Ph.D., 1999; Characterization of Phase Transitions During Pharmaceutical Processing

Sophia Yinghua Li
Ph.D., 2000; Preparation and Characterization of Amorphous Pharmaceuticals

Suneel Rastogi
Ph.D., 2000; Phase Transitions and Decomposition Reactions in Pharmaceutical Solids

Abira Pyne
Ph.D., 2001; Crystallization Behavior of Mannitol and Glycine During Freeze-Drying

Rahul Surana
Ph.D., 2002; Influence of Thermal History and Interaction with Plasticizers on the Properties of Some Amorphous Pharmaceuticals

Smita Ramkanai Debnath
Ph.D., 2003; An Approach to Identify Drugs for Physical Characterization

Koustuv Chatterjee
Ph.D., 2004; Chemical Reactivity and Physical Stability of Lyophilized Solids

Chitralekha Dilip Telang
Ph.D., 2004; Pharmaceutical Lyophilizaiton: Physical Stability Issues and Application of Ternary State Diagram

Cletus Nunes
Ph.D., 2006; Use of High Intensity X-radiation in Pharmaceutical Characterization: Quantification of Crystallinity and Study of Solid-State Reaction Kinetics

Sisir Bhattacharya
Ph.D., 2008; Molecular Mobility in Amorphous Pharmaceuticals - Implications of Heterogeneity

Enxian Lu
Ph.D., 2008; Stabilization of Amorphous Pharmaceuticals by Excipients

Dabing Chen
Ph.D., 2009; Hygroscopicity of Pharmaceutical Crystals

Paroma Chakravarty
Ph.D., 2010; Phase Behavior of Thiamine Hydrochloride Physical Forms

Prakash Sundaramurthi
Ph.D., 2010; Solute Crystallization in the Frozen and Freeze-Dried Systems: Inhibition of Crystallization to Enhance Pharmaceutical Stability

Sunny Bhardwaj
Ph.D., 2012; Molecular Mobility in Amorphous State: Implications on Physical Stability