Dr. Nilesh W. Gaikwad, currently he is working as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Nutrition / Environmental Toxicology at University of California, Davis, United States. He did his Ph.D. in Metabolism at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He completed his Post doctorate in Carcinogenesis at University of California, San Francisco and worked as Research Associate in Chemical biology at Harvard Medical School, Boston. He own 4 patents.

Dr. Nilesh W. Gaikwad received many awards and honors and he is a member in professional societies and is also serving as Editorial Board Member and reviewer for peer reviewed journals.

Dr. Nilesh W. Gaikwad’s research interest inclues, UPLC-MS/MS Method Development for biological sample analysis.

-Development of Metabolomic Technology.

- Development of Biomarkers, Disease biomarkers, Biomarker Synthesis

-Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) Method Development: cation / anion exchange, phenyl, reverse / normal phase, 2D-SPE techniques.

-Structure elucidation (by NMR, UV, IR, Mass spectrometry) of small-molecule biomarkers/drugs/metabolites in biological matrices such as Serum, Urine, Nipple Aspirates and various tissues.

-In vivo and in vitro Drug Metabolism/Bioactivation / Biotransformations of organic molecules

-Elucidation of Metabolic Pathways. Modulation of Metabolic Pathways with Food Components/Toxins

-Drug-Protein, Drug-DNA interactions using UV/Florescence / ITC / NMR / Mass

-Assay Development: Enzymatic reactions, Enzyme assays, enzyme purification by chromatographic techniques.

-Chromatography: Normal Phase/Reverse Phase/Ion-exchange / Chiral HPLC with UV/ Fluorescence/ Electro Chemical / MS-MS detection, UPLC, GC.

-Spectroscopy: CD, IR, UV, Fluorescence, NMR, GC-MS, UPLC-MS/MS

-Multi-step organic syntheses.