18 September 2024, 11:AM MST
Cannabis: An Old Plant with New Horizons, Botany and Biomass Production for the Drug Development
Dr. Chandra earned his M.Phil. degree in Environmental Plant Physiology and his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from The High Altitude Plant Physiology Research Center, HNB Garhwal University (A Central University), India. From 1992 to 2000, he conducted research on the “Impact of climate change on rare and endangered alpine medicinal plants” at the High Altitude Plant Physiology Research Centre and GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment, India. Dr. Chandra joined The University of Mississippi in 2001 and is currently working as Principal Scientist at The National Center for Natural Product Research, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (RIPS), School of Pharmacy. He also serves as Co-Director of NIDA Marijuana Project at the University of Mississippi. His research interests include the conservation, cultivation and improvement of medicinal plants, and effects of climatic changes on physiology and secondary metabolites of medicinally important plants. Dr. Chandra has more than 20 years of experience in the field of cannabis research with a focus on cannabis botany, biotechnology, phytochemistry and production of standardized biomass product for the cannabis-based drug development. He has more than 100 publications and two edited books in his credit.
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