is a Former Professor, Head, and Founder Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. Currently, he is working as Director (R & D), Parul University, Vadodara. He is an active researcher and prolific writer having about 200 research publications and 20 Indian patents to his credit. He was the convener, GPAT Monitoring Committee, AICTE, and conducted GPAT-2010 National level examination for the first time in the country. He has teaching and research experience of more than 35 years. Dr. Yadav has supervised 35 scholars for their PhD degree programme. He has been Chairperson/member of various committees in UGC, AICTE and NBA at national level. He is recipient of ';Best Teacher Award - 2010' of APTI.