Rahul Pawara is an Associate Professor in the Division of Computer Aided Drug Design, at the R. C. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research’s Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, which he joined following two years of work as a Field Officer in an ICMR-funded project studying Tuberculosis in tribal areas. He has five international publications in peer reviewed journals, and his main research interest is the design and synthesis of novel anti-cancer agents.