Dr. Binay Sen is presently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Dravyaguna, Faculty of Ayurveda, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) since 2019. Prior to joining BHU, he rendered his services at North Eastern Institute of Ayurveda & Homoeopathy, Mawdiangdiang, Shillong, (Meghalaya); Government Ayurvedic College & Hospital, Atarra, Banda; Government Ayurvedic College &; Hospital, Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) and S.S.M.D. Ayurvedic College and Hospital, Moga, Punjab. He completed his under-graduation from Government Ayurvedic College and Hospital, Guwahati under Gauhati University in the year 2001 and both the PG and Ph.D. (Dravyaguna) from BHU in the year 2006 and 2011 respectively.
He has more than 25 research publications, delivered more than 20 Guest lecturers as Resource Person, Contributed 06 Chapters in Text Book and Knowledge-based volumes, Text Book and Practical Manual each 01. An IoE-Seed Grant project is also undergoing. Thrust area of interest is medicinal plants applicable as single drug therapy, rasayana (rejuvenating drugs) and kshara (alkali drugs). This is the area where more research is required in the direction of drug development, drug delivery and understanding mechanism of action to generate evidence for wide acceptability of such promising pharmaco-therapeutics of Ayurveda.
