Tanuja Nesari

Gold Medalist M.D. and Ph.D. in Dravyaguna Vigyan (Traditional Pharmacology) from Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar in 2000 with Yagneshwar Gopal Dixit Scholarship. Currently, serving her values as Director, All India Institute of Ayurveda, GOI, New Delhi, India. Additionally, she is in charge of CEO, National Medicinal Plant board, Ministry of AYUSH, GOI under MOA, GOI. She has also been assigned to the post of Dean, Faculty of Ayurvedic & Unani Medicine, Delhi University, New Delhi and Chairman of the AYUSH Assessor committee of the NABH as well as Chair of the Expert Group for Standards of AYUSH Integration. She also served as Chairperson for Health Sector sub-skill Council for AYUSH. Member of various national organizations like General Assembly of ICCR; Member of Board of Governors-NCISM; Convenor of Working Group on formulation of Integrative Health System for NITI AAYOG, Govt. of India; Member of the academic board of various universities like National Academic and research Bodies involved in academic, administration curriculum, syllabi development & policy making for effective education in Ayurveda. Her influential leadership has brought more than 25 National and International MoUs into the credit of AIIA. She played key role in converting AIIA Hospital, New Delhi into COVID Healthcare Centre, where the patients were provided holistic Ayurveda treatment. She is a University approved Ayurveda professor with 30 years of experience of Teaching in Dravyaguna & Rasashastra & Research in Quality, Safety & efficacy of Medicinal plants. Recipient of Best Ayurveda Teacher award of the year 2005. Supervised 85 post-graduate and Ph.D. Scholars in Traditional pharmacology and Pharmaceutics. Successfully completed more than 25 clinical research projects as Principal Investigator in various collaborative project of AIIA with UK, USA, Germany, Brazil and Australia.