Formerly: Chief Scientist (Director Grade) and Head, Department of Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow.
AvH Research Fellow (1976), Institute of Chemistry, University of Dusseldorf, Germany-1976.
Presently: Chairman, Global Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (GIPER), Kashipur, Uttarakhand.
Vice-President, Humboldt Academy of Lucknow.
Specialization: Medicinal Chemistry, Computer-aided Drug Design and Development Research, Supervision of Ph. D. scholars.