Kamashi Kumar, BVSc & AH, MVSc, PhD
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Biography
Dr. Kamashi Kumar is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology at St. George’s University, School of Veterinary medicine. She is the Course Director for Pharmacology I and teaches Pharmacology and Toxicology for DVM students. She is also involved with mentoring of post graduate students in Pharmacology discipline.
Her major research interests are in the fields of antimicrobial resistance, evaluation of medicinal properties of natural plants, antioxidants and drug toxicity studies. In 2002, she received the Young Scientist Award at the third annual Conference of the Indian Society of Pharmacology & Toxicology in recognition of her work on “Evaluation of the Efficacy of Chromium against Salinomycin Toxicity in Broilers.”
Prior to joining St. George’s University, Dr. Kumar worked as a Technical Officer in Research and Development in Avitech Animal Health Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon, India.
Dr. Kumar earned her PhD in Pharmacology from University of Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore, India (2004), MVSc in Veterinary Pharmacology from Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India (2001) and obtained her BVSc & AH degree from Rajiv Gandhi College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pondicherry University, India (1999).
Contact Information
Areas of Interest
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Medicinal Properties of Natural Plants
- Cell Culture Studies
- Nanoparticles
- Drug Toxicity
Affiliations
- Indian Pharmacological society
Selected Publications
- Kumar Kamashi, A. Gopala Reddy, K.S. Reddy and V.R. Reddy. Studies on the hematological profile of salinomycin toxicity and efficacy of certain antioxidants in broilers, Toxicol. Int. Vol.10, No.1, 2003, pp31-36.
- Kumar Kamashi, A. Gopala Reddy, K.S. Reddy and V.R. Reddy. Evaluation of Zinc against salinomycin toxicity in broilers, Indian J. Physiol Pharmacol, 2004; 48 (1); 89-95.
- Kumar Kamashi, A. Gopala Reddy, K.S. Reddy and V.R. Reddy. Evaluation of certain antioxidants on clinical and immunological aspects of salinomycin toxicity in broilers, Indian Vet. Med. Jour., Vol.27, June, 2003:133-135.
- Kumar Kamashi, A. Gopala Reddy and K.S. Reddy. Studies on lactate dehydrogenase activity in salinomycin toxicity and evaluation of efficacy of antioxidants in broilers, Indian Vet. Med. Jour., Vol.27, March, 2003:67-68.
- Kumar Kamashi, A. Gopala Reddy, K.S. Reddy and V.R. Reddy. Effect of synergistic antioxidant against salinomycin toxicity in broiler chicken, Indian J. of Animal Sciences, 75 (6): 26-000, June 2005.
- Kumar Kamashi, JD Baggot, R Sharma. Medicinal Properties of Neem (Azadirachta indica) Review article, West Indian Veterinary Journal, 2009, 9(1):37-52.
- Ganchingco Joy Rachel, Kumar Kamashi, Stone Diana, Matthew Vanessa, Stratton Graeme, Sharma Ravindra, Hariharan Harry. Campylobacter coli and C. jejuni isolated from farmed pigs in Grenada, West Indies and their antimicrobial resistance patterns, Journal of Animal Research, 2(3), Dec. 2012.
- Kumar Kamashi, Honnegowda, Narayana K, Mayanna Asha. Evaluation of antibacterial resistance of biofilm forms of avian Escherichia coli to fluoroquinolones. International Journal of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 4(4):pp. 1-11, Dec. 2014.
Selected Projects
- Evaluation of antimicrobial efficacy of natural plants
- Synthesis of PEG capped carbon nanoparticles and evaluation of their antibacterial activity
- Cell culture studies to evaluate the anticarcinogenic efficacy of plant extracts
- Evaluation of antimicrobial resistance pattern in Grenada
- Drug toxicity studies
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