Professor
KLES College of Pharmacy
India
Dr. Pramod J. Hurkadale, Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy, KLES College of
Pharmacy, Belagavi, Karnataka, India has completed his B. Pharm degree from Kuvempu
University, Shivamogga obtained his M. Pharm degree with distinction from Rajiv Gandhi
University of Health Sciences. Bangalore. He has been awarded Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical
Sciences from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru under AICTE sponsored
quality improvement program and also Diploma in Clinical Research from Catalyst Clinical
Services Ltd, New Delhi. Dr. Pramod has put-up Twenty-Two years of teaching and research
experience in UG, PG and guided 10 scholars for their Ph. D programs under KLE University.
He has published and presented research papers in national and international
journals/conferences and authored a book in Elsevier publishers, CBS publishers and book
chapter in Studium Press, USA. He also been invited as speaker for international conferences at
Malaysia, South Africa, Dubai, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Srilanka, Nepal, Egypt, Saudi
Arabia, Bangladesh and Japan
He has been awarded Best of the Batch Award from Zydus-Indon Cadila Health Care
Ltd, Ahmedabad, Best Paper in International & National Conferences and Best Teacher Award.
He is also the Member for various professional bodies APTI, ISP, SFE, KSPC etc. He has also
worked as Secretary to organize several workshops/ conferences National and International
which was sponsored by ICMR, AICTE, UGC, IPA, etc. and currently EC Member &
Coordinator, Society of Pharmacognosy, India and Co-ordinator for society for
Ethnopharmacology for Belagavi Chapter.
His areas of research interest are, herbal formulations /excipients, biosurfactants,
traditional medicines, ethnomedicinal plants and their screening for various pharmacological
activities and jointly collaborated with National Institute of Traditional Medicine, ICMR,
Belagavi on tissue culture studies of Medicinal Plants from Western Ghats region.