Meet the editors

Dr. Charmy S. Kothari has more than 18 years of teaching and research experience. Her research interests include analytical and bioanalytical method development and validation, impurity profiling and stability studies, and isolation, identification, and characterization of marker compounds from plants and formulations. Her research also includes regulatory guidelines, registration procedures, evaluation and approval procedures

of various regulatory agencies worldwide, and the pharmacovigilance system. She has published more than fifty research and review papers in reputed journals. She is a recognized postgraduate and Ph.D. guide at the Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, India. She received several research grants from government funding agencies like the Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), and Department of Science and Technology (DST), and an international travel grant from DST-SERB.

Dr. Manan Pareshbhai Shah completed his Ph.D. titled "A Data mining approach to comprehensive signal detection of later generation contraceptive drugs" from the Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University under the guidance of Dr. Charmy Kothari. He received his Ph.D. award in Dec 2022. His main area of research is global pharmacovigilance systems and regulatory affairs. For his Ph.D. research work, Dr. Shah received

a fellowship from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) as Senior Research Fellowship (SRF). He has attended various national and international conferences in India and abroad. His research aims to identify the toxic signal (class-specific) for contraceptive drugs for the safe and rational use of the drug with the application of statistical methods like Disproportionality Analysis. He is also investigating the present regulatory framework of pharmacovigilance in India to identify the cognizance of pharmacovigilance among healthcare professionals. He is currently associated with a leading pharmaceutical company in India.
