Dr. Krishna veni Nagappan is presently working as professor & Head, Department of Pharmaceutical analysis (DST FIST Sponsored), JSS College of Pharmacy, (JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Mysuru) Udhagamandalam, India. She holds a M Pharm in Quality Assurance and Ph D in Pharmaceutical Sciences. With more than 20 years of teaching and research experience, She is actively involved in administrative activities of the Department with two industry relevant PG programs (Pharmaceutical Analysis & Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance). She was also instrumental in getting the DST FIST grant (Rs.56.40 Lakhs) for the department and enhancing the instrumentation facilities. In addition, she is Program Coordinator, PG Programs and Warden, Girl’s Hostel. Her broad area of research includes nutrikinetic assessment of functional foods, Assessment of nutritional deficiencies and impurity profiling of pharmaceuticals. She had received research/conference grants worth of Rs. 117.80 Lakhs from various funding agencies to carry out research work and to organize national/International Conferences. To her credit, She had published about 90 research/review articles in peer reviewed journals and one patent grant. She had guided about 07 research scholars and about 60 PG scholars. Through DST-NCSTC funding she organized exhibitions, quiz programs to popularize health education, nutrition, hygiene among the school children of Nilgiris. She is passionate in training college girls for mensural hygiene/ nutritious intake and delivered lectures for them.
