Dr. Jeffrey Pradeep Raj

Dr. Jeffrey Pradeep Raj currently serves as Associate Professor and Head of the Division (Division of Clinical Pharmacology), Department of Pharmacology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. He also serves as Chairperson of the Clinical Trials Research Vertical and Member, Postgraduate Research Vertical at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. He provides academic teaching and training in Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Research, Therapeutics, Pharmacovigilance, and Research Methodology to undergraduate medical students, postgraduate residents, super-specialty trainees, and doctoral research scholars. He is actively involved in mentoring and supervision of PhD, DM, MD, and MBBS research projects and contributes to trainee assessment, thesis guidance, protocol development, scientific writing, and critical appraisal of medical literature. His research interests include clinical trials, precision medicine, pharmacogenomics, pharmacometrics, therapeutic drug monitoring, health economics, pharmacovigilance, research ethics, and implementation research.

He has led and collaborated on multiple investigator-initiated, government-funded, and industry-sponsored national and international research projects across diverse therapeutic areas. As Chairperson of the Clinical Trials Research Vertical, he supports institutional capacity building in clinical research, facilitates investigator training, promotes Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and regulatory compliance, and contributes to the development of academic clinical trial infrastructure. He regularly serves as faculty and resource person for national and international workshops, continuing medical education programmes, and research methodology courses, delivering sessions on clinical trials, biostatistics, pharmacometrics, research ethics, health economics, scientific writing, and evidence-based medicine. He also contributes to departmental, institutional, and collaborative research initiatives aimed at advancing clinical pharmacology, translational research, and precision therapeutics. He also provides consultancy services to various pharmacetucial industry on various aspects of clinical research, including clinical trial design, protocol development, statistical analysis, preparation of clinical study reports, and manuscript writing for publication of research findings in peer-reviewed journals.. In addition to his academic and research responsibilities, he serves in editorial roles with international peer-reviewed journals as

Academic Editor, PLOS One (2024 Journal Impact Factor: 2.6) Associate Editor, European Journal of Medical Research (2024 Journal Impact Factor: 3.4) Editorial Board Member, BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology (2024 Journal Impact Factor: 2.7) Guest Editor, BMC Medical Ethics (2024 Journal Impact Factor: 3.1) He is actively involved in peer review, research dissemination, and promoting high standards of scientific and publication ethics.