Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics

usha.nayak@manipal.edu

Official Phone:+91-820-2922482 Extn: 101

Experience

• Faculty since 2010. Current position is Vice-Principal, Research Coordinator and Professor of Department Pharmaceutics

Areas of Research:

• Dr Usha Y Nayak  has been listed in the world’s top 2% of scientists for 2023 and 2024 in the field of education and research by Stanford University.
• She has also been recognized as one of the top five women researchers of MAHE, Manipal, felicitated by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Union Ministry of Education, New Delhi, and Springer Nature during India Research Tour 2024 at MAHE, Manipal.  
• She is a recipient of the Award for Research Publications in Pharmacy for the year 2021-22 from Vision Group on Science and Technology (VGST), Government of Karnataka, and the Dr. TMA Gold Medal Awards.
• She has won several Best Paper awards at the conferences.
• She is the Coordinator of the Centre for Drug Testing at MCOPS and serves as a member of the Board of Studies of other universities.