Ranjitsinh Devkar
The M S University of Baroda, India
Biography
Ranjitsinh Devkar is currently an Assistant Professor at the M S University of Baroda, India. His primary focus is on atherosclerosis and related lifestyle disorders. His work focuses on bioactive compounds of ethnomedicinal origin and their mechanism in alleviating the said diseases in relevant experimental models. He has about 70 publication and conference presentation history and is expanding research into three main areas viz. anthocyanins to alleviate atherosclerotic inflammation and myocardial necrosis, use of functional foods in mitigating atherosclerosis, and finding novel therapeutants in an endemic ethnomedicinal Indian herb.