Biography:
Prof. Umesh Yadava is a Professor of Physics at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India, with over two decades of teaching and research experience. He earned his B.Sc. (1997) and M.Sc. (1999) in Physics from DDU-Gorakhpur University and completed his Ph.D. in 2010 on crystallographic and theoretical studies of biologically significant aromatic compounds. He has held positions as Lecturer, Reader, Associate Professor, and became Professor in 2016. Prof. Yadava also served as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York (2014–2015). His research integrates X-ray crystallography, molecular modeling, DFT, molecular docking, QM/MM, and molecular dynamics, with applications in biomolecular structure, ligand interactions, and drug design. He has received the DST Young Scientist Award (2010) and the INSA-IAS-NASI Summer Research Fellowship (2011) and International travel award by CSIR, New Delhi. Prof. Yadava has published about 100 research papers in internationally reputed journals widely in structural biology, computational chemistry, and biophysics, contributing to interdisciplinary research and mentoring.
Title : Structure based investigation of natural compounds as SARS-CoV-2 Mpro antagonists