NAME DR. VINOD KUMAR VERMA DESIGNATION Principal Scientist

Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Hisar-125004 ()

Phone: 01662-256120 (O) Mobile: 9467156560 and 8708588229 E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATIONAL DEGREE UNIVERSITY YEAR QUALIFICATIONS Ph.D. CCS HAU, Hisar 2003 M.V.Sc. HAU, Hisar 1991 B.V.Sc. & A.H HAU, Hisar 1989

EMPLOYMENT DESIGNATION PERIOD DETAILS Ø Assistant Professor 06.01.1993 to 05.01.1999 Ø Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) 06.01.1999 to 29.04.2003 Ø Associate Professor 30.04.2003 to 29.04.2009 Ø Professor/ Equi 30.04.2009 Till date Ø Head of Department 24.07.2014 Till date IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENTS PERIOD ASSIGNMENTS • Head of the Department 24.07.2014 Till date • Secretary, Board of Studies, COVS Since 2015 Till date • Member, Resident Instruction Committee 17.10.2016 Till date LUVAS, Hisar • Nodal Officer, Ethno Veterinary Practices 12.03.2019 Till date • Member, State Level Ethno Veterinary Practices Cell, DAHD, Govt. of Haryana, 06.05.2019 Till date • Member, Academic Affairs Committee, Haryana Board of School Education, Bhiwani 2015 Till date

• SPIO, COVS May, 2014 2017 • Member, Academic Council of LUVAS 2017 2019 • Chairman, University Disciplinary Committee 2019 2020

RESEARCH Pharmacokinetics, Pesticide toxicity, Genotoxicity, Immunotoxicity, INTERESTS Ethnopharmacology RESEARCH ROJECTS 1) Principal Investigator of the State Research Scheme of the department, UNDERTAKEN “Toxicological Evaluation of Newer Pesticides: Development of Specific Biomarkers and Antidotes”. 140-C (a)-VPTX-1-Plan Vety./ [2120 B-VI(a) Plan Vety./ 2846 VPTX-1-Plan-Agri /221C(a)VPTX-3- NP-Agri] Status: Completed 2) Principal Investigator of the State Research Scheme of the department, “Pharmacological and toxicological studies of newer drugs, herbals and agrochemicals in animals and poultry” (140-C(a)VPTX-1-Dev. Work). Status: Continuing 3) Co-PI in the RKVY Research project, “Assessment of Agrochemical residues in livestock, poultry and their products, and its amelioration by herbal remedies” funded by Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna, GOI. Status: Completed

MEMBERSHIP OF 1) Life Member, Society of Toxicology, India. SCIENTIFIC 2) Life Member, Indian Society of Veterinary Pharmacology & SOCIETIES Toxicology. 3) Member, Haryana Veterinary Council. 4) Life member, Indian Veterinary Journal. AWARDS/ 1) Junior Research Fellowship (ICAR) for M.V.Sc. (1988-91) FELLOWSHIPS/ 2) Award of Excellence for standing ‘Third’ on merit in the training on PROFESSIONAL “Computer Application” conducted by HRM, CCS HAU, Hisar, RECOGNITIONS dated 4.8.1999 – 31.8.1999. 3) PPS Millennium National Teacher Award 2015-16 by Institute of Environment, Yoga and Social Security, New . 4) Fellowship of Indian Society of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology during 17th Annual Conference of ISVPT at LUVAS, Hisar 5) Poster presentation Award (First position) in Toxicology of Xenobiotics Session for the research paper titled, “Assessment of anilofos induced mutagenicity in bone marrow and germ cells of Swiss albino mice”. In: XVIII Annual Conference of Indian Society of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology and National Symposium on “One Health: Veterinary Pharmacology and

Toxicology Approaches”, held at AAU, Anand (Gujarat), 5-7 Dec., 2018. 6) Expert member in a Workshop held by FAO-ICAR, for preparing draft on operationalization of Veterinary component in National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance. (F. No. AS/18/1/2016-ASR-IV(Pt.), dt. 10.04.2019) and “Operational Plan for Animal Health component of India’s National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance” was prepared. 7) Acted as Chairperson, rapporteur, member judging team in Technical Sessions of Annual Conferences of various scientific societies 8) Referee, the Indian Journal of Field Veterinarian for the year 2011- 12, 2012-13 9) External Paper Setter and moderator for various UG, PG, Comprehensive and Entrance examination of other Universities and NET and Entrance examinations of ICAR

POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS GUIDED M.V.Sc. students: Eight

Title of thesis

1) ‘Pharmacological and toxicological studies of thiamethoxam – a neonicotinoid’ insecticide by Sushant Shivdas Sole, Admn. No. 2006V208M. 2) ‘Study of mutagenic effects of imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid insecticide, in laboratory mice’ by Preeti, Admn. No. 2010V210M. 3) ‘An investigation on imidacloprid induced reproductive toxicity in pregnant rats” by Jitendra Kumar, Admn. No. 2012V37M. 4) ‘Studies on subacute toxicity of thiamethoxam in male rats and its amelioration by quercetin with special reference to reproductive system’, by Ankit Nigam, Admn. No. 2013V43M. 5) ‘Studies on subacute toxicity of thiamethoxam with special reference to reproductive functions and its amelioration by quercetin in female rats’ by Ajeet Singh, Admn. No. 2014V44M. 6) ‘Studies on subacute toxicity of indoxacarb with special reference to reproductive functions and its amelioration by quercetin in female rats’ by Navneet Kumar, Admn. No. 2014V42M. 7) ‘Study on the toxic effects of indoxacarb on the fertility of rats’ by Aryan@Bhim Sein, Admn. No. 2015V49M. 8) ‘Studies on neuropsychobehavioural toxicodynamics of monocrotophos- an organophosphate insecticide’ by Shree Lakshmi B. N., Admn. No. 2017V36M.

Ph.D. students: Two

1) ‘Studies on subchronic toxicity of thiamethoxam and its amelioration by quercetin in male rats’ by Mohammed Shaibu Auwal, Admn. No. 2013V24D (From Nigeria). 2) ‘Evaluation of genotoxicity and immunotoxicity of quinalphos and its amelioration with piperine in male albino mice’ by Preeti Singh, Admn. No. 2017V22D

SELECTED 1. Verma, S.P., Uppal, R.P. and Vinod Kumar (1996). RESEARCH PAPERS: Pharmacokinetics of amikacin in buffalo calves following its intravenous administration. Buffalo Bulletin.15 (4): 90-92.

2. Uppal, R.P., Verma, S.P., Vinod Kumar and Garg, S.K. (1997). Comparative pharmacokinetics of amikacin following a single intramuscular or subcutaneous administration in goats (Capra hircus). Vet. Res. 28: 565-570.

3. Bagri, P., Vinod Kumar, and A.K. Sikka (2015). An in vivo assay of the mutagenic potential of imidacloprid using sperm head abnormality test and dominant lethal test. Drug Chem Toxicol 38(3): 342-348. (NAAS rating- 7.65).

4. Bagri, P., Vinod Kumar, and Sikka, A.K. (2016). Assessment of imidacloprid induced mutagenic effects in somatic cells of Swiss albino male mice. Drug Chem Toxicol. 39(4): 412-417.

5. Vinay Kant, Babu Lal Jangir, Ankit Nigam, Vinod Kumar, Sonu Sharma (2017). Dose regulated cutaneous wound healing potential of quercetin in male rats, Wound Medicine, 19: 82-87.

6. Auwal MS and Kumar V (2017) Effect of Subchronic Oral Exposure of Male Rats to Thiamethoxam, Quercetin and their Combination on Oxidative Stress Parameters in Kidney. BAOJ Vet. Sci. 1: 002.

7. Preeti Bagri and Vinod Kumar (2020). Assessment of anilofos- induced mutagenicity in bone marrow and germ cells of Swiss albino mice. Toxicology and Industrial Health 36(2): 110–118.

8. Kant V, Jangir BL, Kumar V. (2020). Gross and histopathological effects of dimethyl sulfoxide on wound healing in rats. Wound Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wndm.2020.100194