Bharathi Avula

Dr. Bharathi Avula is currently employed as a Senior Scientist at the National Center for Natural Products Research of The University of Mississippi. Her doctorate research has been in the field of pharmaceutical analysis and spent over a decade in the development and validation of analytical and bio-analytical methods. She has expertise in several analytical techniques in a broad range of analytical instrumentation [HPLC/UHPLC with PDA/ELS/ FLR/SQD/QDa/QToF-MS/QqQ-MS detectors, ICP-MS, GC/FID//MS, SFC-UV-MS, Capillary Electrophoresis (CE), UV-Visible spectrophotometer, and TLC densitometer (HPTLC)] that covers a wide spectrum of applications in the field of natural products, biological samples and pharmaceuticals. This expertise involves the qualitative and quantitative characterization of chemical constituents from natural products, chemical profiling, standardization of botanicals/dietary supplements, adulterant identification, and pharmacokinetic studies using various types of analytical techniques.

She has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as Food Chemistry, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Journal of Separation Science, Drug Testing and Analysis, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Drug Metabolism & Disposition, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry and contributed to book chapter on TLC/HPTLC utility in assessment of the quality of botanicals. She is actively involved in the training of FDA inspectors on the analytical techniques used for the authentication of botanicals and the detection of adulterants in dietary supplement preparations.