Faculty Distinguished Faculty

Professor Sharma possesses more than 45 years of professional experience including, teaching, research and academic administration in India as well as Universities abroad. He graduated in Pharmacy from prestigious Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani in 1970 with gold medal followed by M. Pharm (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) from Panjab University and Doctorate from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi. Prof Sharma opted for academics as career by joining Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi as founder faculty of the present day Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Technology and served it in various capacities, last being Professor & Head and Dean of Students Welfare. While serving B.I.T., he was deputed to Nigeria as expert for the establishment of Central Testing Laboratory, River State Government, Port Harcourt. He has also acted as Honorary Consultant for improvement of pharmaceutical services at B.M. Birla Memorial Heart Research Centre and Calcutta Medical Research Institute, Calcutta.

After serving B.I.T. for more than 23 years, Prof Sharma joined University of Asmara, Eritrea as the founder faculty and Associate Dean of College of Health Sciences and worked for more than 12 years. He was nominated on the expert panel for formulation of National Drugs List. Ministry of Health, government of Eritrea. He was also invited to Chair the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at University of Medical Sciences & Technology, Khartoum, Sudan on sabbatical. Prof Sharma has also worked as Director, Institute of Pharmacy & Emerging Sciences, Baddi University of Emerging Sciences & Technology, Baddi and Director, Sardar Bhagwan Singh Post Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences & Research, Dehradun.

Prof Sharma had been elected as a member, National Cultural Committee of Association of Indian Universities and also nominated on a high power committee of Ministry of Health and F.W. on Quality control of Drugs & Pharmaceuticals. He has supervised 9 doctoral and large number of post graduate theses. He has been on Expert Panel and Board of Studies of universities in India and overseas. Prof Sharma has about 50 research publications and two books to his credit.