Introduction to Basics of Pharmacology and Toxicology (PDF)

Dr. Mageshwaran Lakshmanan has completed his M.B.,B.S degree from Tuticorin Government Medical College (Affiliated to The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University) and M.D. Pharmacology from JIPMER, Puducherry, India. He is currently working as Senior Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Thanjavur Medical College, Tamil Nadu, India and has 8 years of teaching experience. He is involved in research activities related to preclinical toxicity studies, drug interactions, and therapeutic drug monitoring. He is a member of the Pharmacovigilance Unit, the Institutional Ethical Committee and the Medical Education Unit of Thanjavur Medical College. In addition to his Departmental activities, he is also the Academic Officer In-Charge of Thanjavur Medical College. He manages undergraduate, postgraduate medical, and paramedical student admission and examinations, coordinates IEC, and acts as nodal officer of scholarship programs and ECFMG. He is well experienced in using various statistical tools and orients the postgraduates of all departments with the research methodology and bio-statistical concepts. He has many publications in various national and international journals.



Dr. Deepak Gopal Shewade, is a retired Senior Professor of Pharmacology from JIPMER, Puducherry. He had joined as Assistant Professor in the same Institute in 1986. Earlier, he worked at BITS, Pilani for 7 years as faculty and completed his Ph. D. He did M. Pharm. (Pharmacology) from Nagpur University. His areas of interest are pharmacogenomics, rational drug therapy, analgesics, and GIT pharmacology. He has completed an Indo-French project under ICMR-INSERM on warfarin dose prediction based on genetic and environmental factors. He has more than 100 publications. He has guided 10 M.D. and 8 Ph. D. students. He has visited Thailand, Uganda, and France for academic and research purposes. In 2004, he was deputed to Uganda by the Ministry of External Affairs to start B. Pharm. course at MUST,