Kulkarni, Vishakha S.: - Vishakha S. Kulkarni is working as Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy, MNR College of Pharmacy, Sangareddy, Gr. Hyderabad. She is a recipient of a Gold medal for her work at PG level. She has completed her PhD from North Maharashtra University in 2014. She has 15 years of teaching and research experience in pharmacognosy and traditional medicine. Her extended area of interest is Quality Control and standardisation of conventional medicines, ethnobotany, phytopharmacy and phytopharmacology of herbal medicines. She received grants from Mumbai University under Minor Research Project. She is a recipient of the Best Teacher Award, and she has been appointed as Medical Scientist for COVID 19 RAKSHA kit project by the Dept. of AYUSH (GOT). She has published research papers in National and International journals and presented scientific papers in several conferences.