Dr. Vikrant Abbot | Faculty | Pharmacy

Dr. Vikrant Abbot
Associate Professor

ACADEMIC, RESEARCH, AND INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE (in years)

• Academic Experience – 7 years
• Research Experience – 4 years
• Industrial Experience – 3 years

AWARDS/HONORS/ACHIEVEMENTS

• Received a Grant of 2 Lacs INR from Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) for organizing International Conference on “Thermodynamics & Pharmacokinetics in Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery” held at Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Jhanjeri, Mohali, Punjab in January 2025.
• RSC Travel Grant Award from Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to attend “Faraday Joint Interest Group Conference” at Sheffield, United Kingdom in April 2020.
• Young Scientist International Travel Grant from Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB) to attend “Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference” at Dresden, Germany in May 2019.
• Associate Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC, United Kingdom) from November 2018 to date (Membership Number – 664977).
• Member of American Chemical Society (ACS, USA) from November 2019 to date (Membership Number – 32184936).
• Lifetime member of Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI: Membership ID – PU/LM-472).
• Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports, a journal of Nature Group (Impact Factor – 3.8).

Brief Profile/Bio

Dr. Vikrant Abbot completed his Bachelor of Pharmacy from Swami Vivekanand College of Pharmacy, Banur, Punjab, in 2010. He started his professional career as a Production Chemist at Comed Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Baddi. Thereafter, he got the opportunity to work for Sun Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Jammu, as a Junior Officer. Meanwhile, he took the chance to pursue a Master of Pharmacy in Medicinal Chemistry at Jaypee University of Information & Technology, Solan, in 2012. He completed his project on “Synthesis of new quinazolinone-benzothiazole hybrid compounds as potential anticancer agents” under the guidance of Dr. Poonam Sharma (Associate Professor) in the Department of Biotechnology, Bioinformatics & Pharmacy. Thereafter, he worked as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) under the supervision of Dr. Poonam Sharma in the DST-SERB-sponsored research project entitled “Physico-chemical Study of Flavonoid-Surfactant Interaction: Utilization in Neomycin Topical Formulation” at Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, for 4 years. He completed his PhD from the same university in September 2021.

He started his academic career as an Assistant Professor at the Global College of Pharmacy, Anandpur Sahib, Punjab. Thereafter, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga, Punjab. After completing his PhD, he worked as an Assistant Professor at PCTE Group of Institutes, Ludhiana, Punjab. Thereafter, he worked as an Associate Professor at Saraswati College of Pharmacy, Gharuan, Punjab, India, and Chandigarh Pharmacy College, Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Jhanjeri, Mohali, Punjab, India. He works as an Associate Professor at the School of Pharmacy, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Till now, his research work has resulted in 33 papers and 11 patents being published. He also presented his work at various international and national conferences.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3715-3329
Scopus ID:  https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56222185400
Vidwan ID: https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/434304
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VsTzqW4AAAAJ&hl=en

LIST OF RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

• Bhagyashri Rathod, Sachin Puri, Vikrant Abbot and Kapil Kumar. Indolo-quinazoline in Medicinal Chemistry as an Anticancer Agents: Current Trends and Future Opportunities. Journal of Molecular Structure, 2025, 1339, 142351 (Impact Factor – 4.0).
• Suman Lata, Lucky Choudhary, Ankita Bharwal, Amit Pandit and Vikrant Abbot*. A Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Pharmacological Activities of 1,3,4-Oxadiazole Hybrid Scaffolds. Medicinal Chemistry, 2025 (Impact Factor – 2.9).
• Swalpanaa Singh, Poonam Sharma, Hemant Sood and Vikrant Abbot. Effects of acoustic waves on the growth, development and phytochemical contents of In Vitro raised Swertia chirayita. Next Research, 2025, 2 (1), 100158.
• Suman Lata, Gagandeep Mehmi, Hardeep Kaur, Anuradha Sharma, Amit Pandit Vikrant Abbot*. Synthesis and Evaluation of Coumarin Clubbed Sulfanilamide and 2-Aminobenzothiazole Hybrids for Antibacterial Applications. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 2025 (Impact Factor – 2.9).
• Ankita Bharwal, Isha Kapila, Suman Lata, Anchal Arora and Vikrant Abbot*. Unveiling herbal dentifrices: A comprehensive review of natural oral hygiene solutions. Next Research, 2025, 2 (1), 100106.
• Chou-Yi Hsu, Riyadh Abdulkareem, Harikumar Pallathadka, Vikrant Abbot, Mamata Chahar et al. A facile and green procedure in preparing dibenzo-chromeno-phenazine-diones using an effectual and recyclable Brønsted acidic ionic liquid. Scientific Reports, 2024, 14, 26758 (Impact Factor – 3.8).
• Mayur Kale, Mohit Umare, Nitu Wankhede, Rohitas Deshmukh, Vikrant Abbot, Khalid Anwer et al. Decoding the therapeutical potential of cannabis and cannabinoids in neurological disorders. Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2024 (Impact Factor – 2.6).
• Namra Aziz, Vikrant Abbot, Aishwarya Bajpai, Pranay Wal, Ankita Wal, Rakesh Verma and Mukesh Chandra Sharma. Comprehensive review on cervical cancer: Global health burden. Current Cancer Therapy Reviews, 2024 (Impact Factor – 0.4).
• Karishma Mahajan, Poonam Sharma and Vikrant Abbot. Thermodynamic characteristics and surface free energy analysis of bifonazole and lecithin with sodium dodecyl sulfate in hydroethanolic solvent systems. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2024, 410, 125594 (Impact Factor – 5.3).
• Hanan Shakeel, Aditya Sharma and Vikrant Abbot*. Comparison of rocuronium and succinylcholine: Onset of action, ease of intubation, and hemodynamic parameters during general anesthesia. Innovative Medicines & Omics, 2024, 1, 3196.
• Suman Lata, Ramandeep Kaur, Gurinder Singh, Divya Dhawal Bhandari and Vikrant Abbot*. Exploring the antimicrobial potential of novel 2-oxo-2-H-chromene conjugates with guanine, thiazole, and imidazole: Synthesis, characterization, and biological evaluation. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Reports, 2024, 12, 100179 (Impact Factor – 4.0).
• Deepak Sharma, Vikrant Abbot, Deepika Sharma and Abhishek Chaudhary. Comprehensive review on nanopollutant detoxification strategies in plants: Unraveling physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms employed by plants to mitigate nanopollution. Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring & Management, 2024, 22, 100969.
• Karishma Mahajan, Poonam Sharma, Vikrant Abbot and Kalpana Chauhan. Ethosomes as a carrier for transdermal drug delivery system: Methodology and recent developments. Journal of Liposome Research, 2024 (Impact Factor – 3.6).
• Isha Kapila, Ankita Bharwal, Poonam Sharma, Neeraj Choudhary and Vikrant Abbot*. Synthetic Marvels in Tuberculosis Research: An In-depth Review of 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives as Antitubercular Agents. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Reports, 2024, 11, 100150 (Impact Factor – 4.0).
• Rajashekar Perosumola, Vikrant Abbot, Gorab Saha, Mrinal et al. A perspective review on role of various nutraceuticals in management of cancer. Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research, 2023, 14 (11), 573-582.
• Abha Sharma, Poonam Sharma, Isha Kapila and Vikrant Abbot*. A Combination of Novel HIV-1 Protease Inhibitor and Cytochrome P450 (CYP) Enzyme Inhibitor to Explore the Future Prospective of Antiviral Agents: Evotaz. Current HIV Research, 2023, 21 (3), 149-159 (Impact Factor – 0.8).
• Dinesh Kumar, Diksha Verma and Vikrant Abbot. A review on pharmaceutical, pharmacological and chemical aspects of serratiopeptidase as anti-inflammatory agent. Materials Today: Proceedings, 2023 (In Press).
• Vikrant Abbot, Diksha Sharma, Himalya Attri and Poonam Sharma. An electrolyte induced thermodynamic study of quercetin and Tween 20: A physico-chemical approach for formulation development. Materials Today: Proceedings, 2023 (In Press).
• Vikrant Abbot, Abhishek Gupta, Varun Bhardwaj, Rita Devi and Poonam Sharma. Evaluation and characterization of SDS and carbopol assisted ethosomal loaded terbinafine hydrochloride topical gel formulations. Trends in Carbohydrate Research, 2023, 14 (4), 12-25.
• Vikrant Abbot, Tamanna Sharma, Varun Bhardwaj, Shailesh Sharma and Poonam Sharma. Development, characterization and in vitro antimicrobial evaluation of novel flavonoids entrapped micellar topical formulations of neomycin sulfate. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022, 111 (12), 3287-3296 (Impact Factor – 3.7).
• Vikrant Abbot, Diwakar Paliwal, Anuradha Sharma and Poonam Sharma. A review on the physicochemical and biological applications of biosurfactants in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Heliyon, 2022, 8, E10149 (Impact Factor – 3.4).
• Vikrant Abbot, Varun Bhardwaj and Poonam Sharma. Investigation of intermolecular interactions of anionic surfactant SDS and rutin: A physico-chemical approach for pharmaceutical application. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2021, 337, 116352 (Impact Factor – 5.3).
• Vikrant Abbot and Poonam Sharma. Investigating thermodynamic, acoustic and spectroscopic parameters of rutin trihydrate with cationic surfactant CTAB in hydro-ethanolic solvent systems. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2021, 328, 115489 (Impact Factor – 5.3).
• Vikrant Abbot and Poonam Sharma. Thermodynamics and acoustic effects of quercetin on micellization and interaction behaviour of CTAB in different hydroethanol solvent systems. Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 2021, 235, 1177-1207 (Impact Factor – 3.0).
• Vikrant Abbot and Poonam Sharma. Effect of quercetin on micellization behaviour of Tween-20 in hydro-ethanolic solvent system: An electrolyte induced thermodynamic study. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2020, 1451.
• Harjas Saini, Vikrant Abbot, Gopal Singh Bisht and Poonam Sharma. Study of the physico-chemical properties of vancomycin hydrochloride for determining its potential applications in formulation development. Indian Journal of Chemistry-A, 2020, 59A, 1113-1119 (Impact Factor – 0.4).
• Vikrant Abbot and Poonam Sharma. Thermodynamic and acoustic studies of quercetin with sodium dodecyl sulfate in hydro-ethanolic solvent systems: A flavonoid-surfactant interaction study. Chemical Physics, 2020, 538, 110921 (Impact Factor – 2.0).
• Vikrant Abbot and Poonam Sharma. Investigation of interactions between quercetin and Tween 80 through electrolyte induced thermodynamic approach. Materials Today: Proceedings, 2020, 28, 61-64.
• Subhajit Roy, Bawneet K. Narang, Manish K. Gupta, Vikrant Abbot, Virender Singh, Ravindra K. Rawal. Molecular docking studies on isocytosine analogues as xanthine oxidase inhibitors. Drug Research, 2018, 7, 395-403 (Impact Factor – 1.8).
• Ramandeep Kaur, Vibhuti Rani, Vikrant Abbot, Yagyesh Kapoor, Debabrata Konar, Kapil Kumar. Recent synthetic and medicinal perspectives of pyrroles: An overview. Journal of Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Chemical Science, 2017, 1, 17-32.
• Vikrant Abbot, Poonam Sharma, Saurabh Dhiman, Malleshappa N. Noolvi, Harun M. Patel, Varun Bhardwaj. Small hybrid heteroaromatics: resourceful biological tools in cancer research. RSC Advances, 2017, 7, 28313-28349 (Impact Factor – 3.9).
• Varun Bhardwaj, Divya Gumber, Vikrant Abbot, Saurabh Dhiman, Poonam Sharma. Pyrrole: A Resourceful Small Molecule in Key Medicinal Hetero-aromatics. RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 15233-15266 (Impact Factor – 3.9).
• Harun M. Patel, Malleshappa N. Noolvi, Poonam Sharma, Varun Jaiswal, Sumit Bansal, Sandeep Lohan, Suthar Sharad Kumar, Vikrant Abbot, Saurabh Dhiman, Varun Bhardwaj. Quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) studies as strategic approach in drug discovery. Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2014, 12, 4991-5007 (Impact Factor – 2.6).

PATENTS

• Ritika, Rishu Sharma, Vikrant Abbot, Preeti, Rishav Kumar et al. Wrist band for mosquito eradication. Indian Design Patent, Design No. – 416512-001 (Granted on 16th April, 2025).
• Rita Chandel, Vikrant Abbot, Poonam Sharma. A process and composition for preparing 4-methoxyphenoxo complexes of mono and bis-(2,4-pentanedionato)zirconium (IV) chlorides. Indian Utility Patent, Patent No. – 563325 (Granted on 24th March, 2025).
• Poonam Sharma, Swalpanaa, Vikrant Abbot, Hemant Sood. Device for monitoring and analyzing plant acoustic frequencies. Indian Design Patent, Design No. – 427876-001 (Granted on 2nd December, 2024).
• Puneet Sudan, Vikrant Abbot, Swati Sharma. Choice maze for zebra fish. Indian Design Patent, Design No. – 422515-001 (Granted on 23rd August, 2024).
• Neeraj Choudhary, Lalit Kumar, Vikrant Abbot, Ritesh Rana, Naveen Sharma, Khushboo Rani. Muffle Furnace. Indian Design Patent, Design No. – 425472-001 (Granted on 19th September, 2024).
• Lalit Kumar, Neeraj Choudhary, Ritesh Rana, Vikrant Abbot, Neelam Sharma, Sahil Kumar. Tablet coating pan unit with hot air blower. Indian Design Patent, Design No. – 394630-001 (Granted on 9th April, 2024).
• Neeraj Choudhary, Lalit Kumar, Ritesh Rana, Vikrant Abbot, Neelam Sharma, Sumit Kumar. Capsule filling machine. Indian Design Patent, Design No. – 402413-001 (Granted on 22nd February, 2024).
• Prevesh Kumar, Vikrant Abbot, Vinay Kumar Gupta, Laxminarayan Patidar et al. Mouth cancer detection equipment. Indian Design Patent, Design No. – 396250-001 (Granted on 18th January, 2024).
• Lalit Kumar, Neeraj Choudhary, Ritesh Rana, Vikrant Abbot, Neelam Sharma, Puneet Sharma. Ampoule washing machine for pharmaceuticals. Indian Design Patent, Design No. – 394329-001 (Granted on 26th October, 2023).
• Rajaputana Lakshmi Manisha, Pranshul Sethi, Mrinal Sharma, Vikrant Abbot, Mineshkumar Ashvinkumar Patel et al. Apparatus for animal tissue preservation in laboratories. UK Design Patent, Design No. – 6301341 (Granted on 13th August, 2023).
• Poonam Sharma and Vikrant Abbot. A composition and a method for investigating intermolecular interactions of bioactive molecule and surfactant. Republic of South Africa, Application No. – 2022/08660 (Granted on 26th October, 2022).