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Dr Gopal Natesan is Professor of Medicinal
Chemistry and Director for Education Quality Audit Learning (EQUAL) Unit at
MAHSA University, Kuala Lumpur and also Fellow of Higher Education Academy
(FHEA) UK, where he has been since 2009. From 2009 to 2017 he served as Deputy
Dean for Academic Affairs and Research, Faculty of Pharmacy.
He received
his BPharm and MPharm (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) from Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical
University in 1993 and 1996. He obtained his doctoral degree (PhD) in
Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Hamdard University, New Delhi, India, in 2001 and
his Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning from Anglia Ruskin
University in 2016.
His research interests span both new-drug
discovery and the isolation of chemicals of
plant origin. Much of his work has been on the synthesising of new small
chemical entities and quinazolinones heterocyclic pharmacophore and their
preliminary screening in both in-vivo
and in-vitro models, mainly focusing
on pain and inflammation and also for newer microbial agents.
He has vast experience in teaching pharmaceutical
chemistry, medicinal chemistry, phytochemistry and pharmacognosy modules for
more than twenty years and has had international teaching exposure to different
chemistry modules as Franchise Lecturer for Liverpool
John Moores University, UK and Northumbria
University UK for MPharm and Bachelor of Biomedical Science programmes respectively.
He is also serving as an external examiner for undergraduate and post-graduate programmes
for several colleges and universities in India and for International Medical
University (IMU), Malaysia.
To date, he has successfully supervised and
completed six doctoral projects and several undergraduate and post-graduate research projects.
He has also completed three funded research projects, one with the Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of the Government of India and
another two internal-grant projects of MAHSA University. He has done undergraduate research projects
in collaboration with public universities and is currently supervising three PhD
scholars.
He has published more than fifty peer-reviewed
scientific papers in journals and presented ninety-six papers in conferences
and received a number of honours, including the Edward Kennedy Memorial Award
in 2017 by the Malaysian Medical Association, the BioGenesis Health Cluster,
India and the Young Scientist Award in 2013 from the International Society of
Nature and Health Care Inc, USA, and the University of Colombo and the University
of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
He has been an invited
speaker at international scientific meetings and conferences and serves as a
reviewer for several scientific international journals and has also served on
the editorial and advisory boards of various journals. He has
also been Chairman for
different international conferences and a member of organising committees. In addition, he was also
involved in conducting the “Pharma+BioAsia 2016”, an international conference,
as Knowledge Partner and part of the
Organising Committee with University Technology MARA (UiTM), Malaysia.
He is also a member of a number of national and international associations.