Dr. Noel J. de Souza

He was educated at the Bombay University (Ph.D., Organic Chemistry) with postdoctoral associateships at Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, U.S.A. and the University of Liverpool, England. He is also an alumnus of the International Management Institute, Geneva, Switzerland. His areas of specialization are pharmaceutical research and development, and intellectual property, with research, teaching and consulting interest in drug discovery and development, effective management of research centres, novel bioactive natural products and synthetic molecules in a variety of therapeutic areas, and patent productivity.

Dr. de Souza currently operates as a Consultant in Pharmaceutical R&D, Innovation and Intellectual Property. Dr. de Souza has authored around 100 publications in reputed international scientific journals and has delivered lectures in several national / international forums. He is named as inventor on about 200 patents. He guided the discovery and destiny of several drug molecules, some of which have been successfully launched in the market, and others have attracted high international interest and acclamation for their unique mechanism of drug action, in particular the molecules named FORSKOLIN and ALVOCIDIB.