Dr. Ashok Behera

Assistant Professor-I
DIT University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India


Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Pharmacy from Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India

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Area of Interest:

Biomedical Sciences
Drug Delivery
Pharmacy
Radiopharmaceutical Therapy
Medicinal Chemistry

Selected Publications

  1. Singh, S., P. Sanwal, S. Bhargava, A. Behera and S. Upadhyay et al., 2023. Smart advancements for targeting solid tumors via protein and peptide drug delivery (PPD). Curr. Drug Delivery, 20: 669-682.
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  2. Gupta, S.M., A. Behera, N.K. Jain, D. Kumar and A. Tripathi et al., 2022. Indene-derived hydrazides targeting acetylcholinesterase enzyme in Alzheimer’s: Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation. Pharmaceutics, Vol. 15. 10.3390/pharmaceutics15010094.
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  3. Begam, H.M., R. Choudhury, A. Behera and R. Jana, 2019. Copper-catalyzed electrophilic ortho C(sp2)-H amination of aryl amines: Dramatic reactivity of bicyclic system. Org. Lett., 21: 4651-4656.
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  4. Behera, A., K. De, S. Chattopadhayay and M. Misra, 2015. Metabolic stability and biological evaluation of 99mTc-HYNIC-Tyr3-Octreotide as somatostatin receptor positive tumor imaging agent. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 304: 595-602.
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  5. Banerjee, I., A. Behera, K. De, S. Chattopadhyay and S.S. Sachdev et al., 2015. Synthesis, characterization, biodistribution and scintigraphy of 99mTc-paclitaxel: A potential tracer of paclitaxel. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 304: 633-643.
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  6. De, K., A. Behera, I. Banerjee, B. Sarkar, S. Ganguly and M. Misra, 2014. Radiolabeled novel peptide for imaging somatostatin-receptor expressing tumor: Synthesis and radiobiological evaluation. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 301: 847-861.
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  7. Behera, A., I. Banerjee, K. De, R.N. Munda and S. Chattopadhayay et al., 2013. Synthesis, characterization, conformational analysis of a cyclic conjugated octreotate peptide and biological evaluation of 99mTc-HYNIC-His3-Octreotate as novel tracer for the imaging of somatostatin receptor-positive tumors. Amino Acids, 44: 933-946.
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  8. De, K., A. Bhowmik, A. Behera, I. Banerjee, M.K. Ghosh and M. Misra, 2012. Synthesis, radiolabeling, and preclinical evaluation of a new octreotide analog for somatostatin receptor-positive tumor scintigraphy. J. Pept. Sci., 18: 720-730.
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  9. Chattopadhyay, P., D. Bhattacharya, A. Behera and S. Hota, 2011. A modified synthetic approach to optically pure benzoxazepines from amino acid precursors using intramolecular buchwald-hartwig C-O bond-formation reaction. Synthesis, 2011: 585-592.
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