Dr. Hari Sharan Adhikari, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Pashchimanchal Campus, Pokhara is a leading researcher in the field of biomaterial chitosan-based anticancer drug design, development and discovery approaches with the in vitro cytotoxic activity study against the cancer cells with reference to normal cells. Dr Adhikari has several research publications from within his research field. The publications of Dr. Adhikari as the first author has several SCImago ranked publications some of which are listed here.