Dr. Swati Kaushik

Assistant Professor

Interest Area(s)

Renal PharmacologyRespiratory Pharmacology

Dr. Swati Kaushik is an academician in the field of Pharmacology with six years of teaching experience in higher education. She is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the School of Medical and Allied Sciences at KR Mangalam University, Gurugram. She holds a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, along with postgraduate and undergraduate degrees in Pharmacy.

Her academic responsibilities include undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, laboratory instruction, curriculum implementation, and student mentoring. Dr. Kaushik has been associated with academic institutions in both teaching and research capacities and has guided postgraduate students in pharmacology-related projects. She has been involved in institutional academic activities such as NAAC coordination, timetable planning, laboratory committee work, and diploma programme coordination.

Dr. Kaushik has contributed to scholarly work through publications in national and international journals and has participated in conferences and academic forums. She has also been associated with externally funded research projects during her doctoral work. She is an active reviewer for reputed journals and holds professional memberships with recognized pharmaceutical and scientific bodies. Her academic engagement reflects a consistent involvement in teaching, academic administration, and subject-related scholarly activities.

Ph.D. (Pharmacology) (August 2015-January 2022)
M. Pharmacy (Pharmacology) (2020-12)
B. Pharmacy (2006-10)

Assistant Professor, Staerx University, Gurugram- March, 2021- July 2022.
Senior Research Fellow, ICMR- March 2019- January 2021.
Junior Research Fellow, DBT- October 2015- May, 2016.
Assistant Professor, Ram Gopal College of Pharmacy, Gurugram- December 2012- January 2015.

Pulmonary pharmacology

Got awarded with P.C. Dandia award (Best poster presentation) for abstract entitled ‘Sesamol modulates mechanistic pathways in a dose dependent manner in bleomycin induced pulmonary toxicity in rats’, at 5th IUPHAR World Conference on the Pharmacology of Natural Products & 51st Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society (held from 5th-7th December, 2019, at ICMR-NIN, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

5th IUPHAR World Conference on the Pharmacology of Natural Products & 51st Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society (held from 5th-7th December, 2019, at ICMR-NIN, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

Author(s)	Title	Name of Journal	Volume	Page	Year
Swati Kaushik, Manjusha Choudhary*, Shami Rajpal	Antiurolithiatic efficacy of combination preparations of Dolichos biflorus and Crataeva nurvala: folk medicines used in Indian traditional medicine	Future Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences	7	21	2021
Swati Vashist , Manjusha Choudhary, Shammi Rajpal , Deepali Siwan , Vikas Budhwar	Varuna ( Buch. Ham.): A brief review on Phytochemistry of Crataeva nurvala Pharmacological profile and uses in various ailments	Asian Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology	6 (2)	119-125	2020
Tomar A, Kaushik S, Khan SI, Bisht K, Nag TC, Arya DS, Bhatia J	The dietary isoflavone daidzein mitigates oxidative stress, apoptosis, and inflammation in CDDP-induced kidney injury in rats: Impact of the MAPK signaling pathway.	Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology	34 (2)	e22431	2019
Kaushik S^,Tomar A^, Puthanmadhom Narayanan S^, Nag TC^, Arya DS^,Bhatia J	Pitavastatin attenuates cisplatin-induced renal injury by targeting MAPK and apoptotic pathways	J Pharm Pharmacol	71 (7)	1072-1081	2019
Gamad N, Malik S, Suchal K, Vasisht S, Tomar A, Arava S, Arya DS, Bhatia J	Metformin alleviates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in rats: Pharmacological effects and molecular mechanisms	Biomed. Pharmacother.	97	1544-1553	2018
Tomar A, Vasisth S, Khan SI, Malik S, Nag TC, Arya DS, Bhatia J	Galangin ameliorates cisplatin induced nephrotoxicity in vivo by modulation of oxidative stress, apoptosis and inflammation through interplay of MAPK signaling cascade	Phytomedicine	34	154-161	2017
Malik S, Suchal K, Bhatia J, Khan SI, Vasisth S, Tomar A, Goyal S, Kumar R, Arya DS, Ojha SK.	Therapeutic potential and molecular mechanisms of Emblica officinalis Gaertn in countering Nephrotoxicity in rats induced by the chemotherapeutic agent Cisplatin.	Frontiers in pharmacology	7	350	2016