Prof. Navin Kumar is a highly motivated and result-oriented Professor and researcher with over 22 years of experience in academia, research, industry, and product development. He has authored more than 55 peer-reviewed research publications, holds three granted Indian patents, and has successfully guided eight PhD scholars. He was a member of the team that developed an RT-PCR–based typhoid detection kit (VANSCAN), which was transferred to Vanguard Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (2022–2023) and commercially launched on 27 April 2023. His teaching interests include Molecular Biology, Recombinant DNA Technology, and Omics Technologies, and his research focuses on molecular diagnostics, functional genomics, microbial pathogenesis, and AMR.
Research Area
- Molecular Diagnostics
- Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Drug Targets
- Peptide Therapeutics
- Drug Repurposing
- Fungal Pathogenesis
- Structure-based and AI-driven Drug Discovery
Awards
- Outstanding Researcher Award in the 15th Uttarakhand State Science and Technology Congress (2022) by Uttarakhand Council for Science & Technology (UCOST)
- IPR Excellence Award by UCOST (2021)
- Meritorious Award (2020) by STE (Save The Environment – NGO)
- Young Scientist Award (2015) in the 9th Uttarakhand State Science & Technology Congress
- University Research Performance Awards (2012, 2015, 2019, 2024) at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun
Professional Membership
- Life Member, Save the Environment
- Life Member, Association of Microbiologists of India
Research Detail
- Kamboj, N., Kumar, R., Kumar, N., Pal, M., & Gautam, P. (2025). Antibacterial and antiprotease activities of fermented barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea) protein hydrolysate. Food Chemistry: X, 102511.
- Kumar, R., Kamboj, N., Kumar, V., Kumar, S., Kumar, N., & Gautam, P. (2025). Assessing the contamination risk of Salmonella enterica subsp. in green leafy vegetables. Journal of Pure & Applied Microbiology, 19(1).
- Parveen, G., Ansari, W. A., Kumar, N., & Jaiswal, D. D. K. Harnessing secondary metabolites of endophytic microbes: A next-generation biopesticide for crop disease management. Frontiers in Microbiology, 16, 1705702.
- Chauhan, V., Kumar, A., Tripathi, S., Jha, M., Kumar, N., Poluri, K. M., & Gupta, P. (2024). An update on the pathogenesis and ethnopharmacological therapeutic approaches of vulvovaginal candidiasis. Discover Public Health, 21(1), 195.
- Kamboj, N., Kumar, R., Kumar, N., & Gautam, P. (2024). Potential and limitation of peptides from native plants of Uttarakhand. International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, 30(5), 55.
- Ansari, A., Kumar, D., Gupta, P., Poluri, K. M., Rai, N., Ameen, F., & Kumar, N. (2024). Mechanistic insights into antifungal potential of Alexidine dihydrochloride and Hexachlorophene in Candida albicans: a drug repurposing approach. Archives of Microbiology, 206(9), 383.
- Jha, M., Yadav, N., Rawal, S., Gupta, P., Kumar, N., Yadav, R. K., & Yadav, T. C. (2024). Vaccinomics: Structure-based drug designing computational approaches for the designing of novel vaccines. In Integrative Omics (pp. 133–141). Academic Press.
- Chamoli, P., Jhildiyal, S., Agrawal, P., Kumar, N., & Singh, P. (2024). Recent advances in the processing of Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum Schumach) as a potential bioenergy crop for bioethanol production. Journal of Applied Biology & Biotechnology, 12(4), 144–157.
- Joshi, S., Painuli, S., Misra, K., Kumar, N., Bachheti, R. K., Rai, N., & Singab, A. N. B. (2023). Analyses of Elaeocarpus sphaericus extract for antioxidant, antiproliferative and gene repression activities against HIF-1α and VEGF. Chemistry & Biodiversity, 20(8), e202300249.
- Kakkar, S., Gupta, P., Kumar, N., & Kant, K. (2023). Progress in fluorescence biosensing and food safety towards point-of-detection (POD) system. Biosensors, 13(2), 249.
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