Prem Prakash Yadav is Senior Scientist, Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division, Central Drug Research Institute Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Natural Product Chemistry. He published more than 30 research articles.His research interest i involves the identification of bioactives from natural sources and development of novel strategies for the synthesis of medicinally active heterocycles.

Identification of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants/microbes:The chemical diversity of natural products has guided the drug discovery research worldwide. Bioassay guided isolation of secondary metabolites from plants and microbes is presently undertaken in our group towards identification of new leads. Development of new methodologies for the synthesis of medicinally active heterocycles: Nitrogen heterocycles are the most frequently encountered drug/lead scaffolds. Our group is working on development of synthetic methodologies for construction of nitrogen heterocycles as well as late stage functionalization of bioactive compounds. Our synthetic studies are mainly directed towards new therapeutics for parasitic diseases and CNS-CVS Disorders