Editorial Board

Dr. A. Heidari, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Chemistry. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees form California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management and also in Nanochemistry and Molecular Structure Theory. His research interests are Biophysical Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Biomolecular and Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modeling and Structure, Theoretical, Computational and Mathematical Chemistry, Ab initio and Density Functional Methods. He has participated at more than fifty reputed international conferences, seminars, congresses, symposiums and forums around the world as yet. Also, he possesses many published articles in Science Citation Index (SCI)/International Scientific Index (ISI) Journals. It should be noted that he has visited many universities or scientific and academic research institutes in different countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands, Russia, France, Swiss, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, South Korea, China, etc. as research fellow, sabbatical and volunteer researcher or visitor heretofore. He has a history of several years of teaching for college students and various disciplines and trends in different universities. Moreover, he has been a senior advisor in various industry and factories. He is expert in many computer programs and programming languages. Hitherto, he has authored more than ten books in Chemistry. Syne, he has been awarded more than two hundreds reputed international awards, prizes, scholarships and honors. Heretofore, he has multiple editorial duties in many reputed international journals. Hitherward, he is a member of more than one hundred reputed international academic–scientific–research institutes around the world.

Biophysical Chemistry, Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Theoretical Chemistry, Mathematical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modelling, Ab initio & Density Functional Methods, Molecular Structure

Jagvir Singhis a reasearcher of Chemistry & Biochemistry Department in Laurentian University, Canada. He completed his MSc and MBA from GJ University of Science & Technology, India in 1998, 2000 respectively.He received his Ph.D in Nanotechnology from University Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology,Panjab University, India in 2015.He done his Project Management & also secured Leadership Certificate from Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), Edmonton in 2015.

Gasotransmitters on human physiological processes, study of post-translational modifications of proteins and their impact on biological pathway, study the molecular mechanism for interaction of H2S with proteins.

Working as a senior principal scientist in the field of Nanotechnology/ Biotechnology in the Biology and Biotechnology Division of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India. Joined Regional Research Laboratory and worked for PhD as a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Fellow in 1983 and received doctoral degree from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. Later, continued research at the same place as CSIR Post-doctoral Fellow and CSIR Research Associate. In 1984, started employment as a scientist at Regional Research Laboratory which is later renamed as Indian Institute of Chemical Technology in 1989 and is continuing till today. Published several research articles in national and international journals as well as research books.

My area of research mainly focuses on the synthesis of various noble metal nanoparticles (Ag, Au, Pd and Pt) by using plant materials and studying their impact on the plant, soil and pest insects, preparation of nano-formulations. Preparation of monodispersed nanoparticles from plants which has negligible ecotoxicological effects on non-target organisms and studied for their significance in agricultural and medicinal sector with commercial application.

Dr. A.Vijayalakshmi is a Principal Scientist at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad. Joined CCMB in the year of 1997.Obtained MSc in Organic Chemistry from Osmania University, M Phil in Chemistry from Hyderabad Central University. During service as a Scientist in CCMB obtained the PhD in Chemistry (in the field of Nanotechnology) from Osmania University. Till now obtained 20-25 publications in high impact factor of International journals and has patents from US and as well from india. Presented the research work in several international and national conferences related to Chemistry and biology interfaces sciences. Invited speaker of JNTU in nanotechnology t for the classes of undergraduate teachers and for the national conferences of other universities. Guided several students for their short projects during the summer season, few dissertations students and coordinated in guiding the PhD students. Developed a triglyceride Biosensor which has been patented from US. We focus on optimal design of a sustained/ controlled release system necessitates a thorough understanding of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of the drug. Working on the development of a Microbial fuel cell devices where bacteria used as a catalyst to oxidize organic and inorganic matter and generate current. Engineering a fungal proteins for high affinity binding to the heavy metals to use them in the field of bioremediation. Functionalizing the nanoparticles for a specific and targeted drug delivery.

Dr. A.Vijayalakshmi is pursuing her research in th fields of Protein chemistry, Design of biosensors, Nanotechnology, Bioremediation and Microbial fuel cells

Vural Fidan has recieved his MD and PhD in Hacettepe University. He is deputy director of ENT department. He is an Otorhinolaryngologist at Yunus Emre Goverment Hospital. He worked as a visiting scientist at Yale University ENT and Allegry departments. He has more than 20 SCI indexed articles. Research interests are pulmonary hypertension, allergy, otology, rhinology and sleep medicine

Dr Fidan's work focuses on pulmonary hypertension, glommus jugulare-caroticum, sleep medicine.

After finishing her Msc in Zoology at Kerala University, Dr. Lekha Dinesh Kumar did her second masters and Phd in Molecular biology & Biotechnology at IARI, New Delhi. She joined as Scientist C at CDFD, Hyderabad in 1998. Later she shifted to CCMB in 2001 where she is currently holding a position of Principal Scientist and Project Leader, Cancer Biology. She received “Vicky Dickinson memorial fellowship” of Cardiff University for Post Doctoral Research in 2005. She is also the recipient of UICC-ICRETT (International Union against Cancer) fellowship award (2008). Her research activities at CCMB include Biomarker discovery in Breast cancer and Leukemias with an emphasis on the role of oncomiRs in the development and progression of these cancers. Her group has adopted a multidisciplinary approach consisting of in silico, in vitro and in vivo studies for identifying deregulated microRNAs and their targets. This would open up the possibility of using these small RNA molecules for the prognosis, diagnosis and treatment of cancer in future

Dr. Kumar's main interest is biological drug discovery with an emphasis on “wnt signal transduction pathway and the effect of its deregulation during colon and breast cancer”. Creating in vivo novel disease models by knock-in and knock out transgenic technology is being followed by her group to silence, over express and misexpress the wnt deregulators in the murine intestine. They also intend to use siRNA/shRNA as a biological drug in combination with various nanoparticles for delivery into colon and breast cancer models.

Presently Dr. Behera is associated with Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science as Assistant Professor. I completed my post graduation in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Pune University, Maharashtra. I started my career in academics from 2006 and associated with various Universities. I completed my PhD from Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University on development of new analytical methods for anti AIDS drugs.

Dr. Behera's research focus on Development of new analytical methods for different drugs in different matrices

Dr. Vinod Kumar obtained his Ph.D. in Biotechnology, Department of Zoology from Banaras Hindu University, India on Project- Investigations on Biomedical Applications of Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene and its Derivatives and his thesis entitled "Investigation on Biomedical applications of Carbon. Currently he is working as Postdoctoral fellow at INST, Mohali, Punjab, India, on Project: Fabrication of sensitive platform for electrochemical biosensing of cardiac biomarker8 months (Feb, 2013 to November 2013). He also has research experience on Fabrication of Graphene Field Effect Transistor for biosensing in research group of Prof. ChiuPowen and Prof. C. C. Chang jointly at Department of Electrical Engineering, & Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University,Taiwan. He is well versed with Immunological and molecular techniques like Western blotting, lymphocyte culture as well as in vitro cell culture, ELISA, Immunohistochemistry, and other molecular biology techniques.

Dr. kumar's research work includes Fabrication of Graphene Field Effect Transistor for biosensing. He is also well versed with Immunological and molecular techniques like Western blotting, lymphocyte culture as well as in vitro cell culture, ELISA, Immunohistochemistry, and other molecular biology techniques.

Dr. Rehan Khan is working as a Scientist at Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali, India. Currently his area of research is application of Cancer Biology, synthetic lethality & Cancer, nanochemoprevention of cancer. His main research interest is to develop novel drug targets for cancer treatment by exploiting chromosomal instability (CIN) genes. These CIN genes are cancer cell specific signatures and can be used for the selective killing of cancer cells. During his postdoctoral training, by using yeast/drosophila datasets, he was working on to develop synthetic lethal interactors of homologous recombination repair (HRR)-deficient cancer cells for synergistic killing of cancer cells only sparing normal cells.

Synthetic Lethality & Cancer, NanoChemoprevention, Development of Nanoformulation of Drugs, Photodynamic therapy (PDT) and Photothermal therapy (PTT) using nanoparticles, Combinatorial Therapy of PDT/PTT with Nanodrug for cancer treatment.

Dr. C.S Vivekbabu has a diverse experience in the area of microbiology and development of novel insecticides of microbial origin, with over seven years of hands on expertise in the academic and industrial sector. He worked as DBT-Post doctoral fellow (2006-2008) at Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and he gained experience in development of novel insectides from microbial origin. Later from 2008 to mid 2012, he worked as Associate Scientist at ITC Corporate R&D at Hyderabad and Bangalore, where he had worked as Team leader for biorationals & bioactives programme for crop protection and Cardiovascular Health Management Programme. He had developed several product prototypes for Biorationals, Obesity and Diabetes management. He holds the merit of having 17 significant patents, of which 5 of them are granted in US, Europe, Australia and Malaysia in the area of crop protection.

Bioprospection of Microorganisms and Development of Nano pesticides

Dr.M.Srinivasa Rao is working as a scientist in Biology Division of CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India. He obtained Masters Degree in Biotechnology from Bharathidasan University and PhD in Zoology from Osmania University. He has breadth of research experience in epidemiology vector borne diseases, disease modelling and spatio-temporal mapping studies. He is also working on the role of climatic factors on transmission of various vector borne diseases like malaria, Japanese encephalitis and dengue. Besides these studies, mosquito bio-efficacy studies and antimicrobial activity are also carried out against various natural and synthetic compounds. He was awarded with travel grant from York University, Canada to present his work in Canada. He has 32 research publications in peer reviewed national and international journals. He has contributed to four book chapters, and holds 05 copyright/patents for his scientific contributions, till date.

Medical Entomology, Infectious diseases, Disease modelling and Computational Biology.

Dr. Ghousia Begum obtained Ph.D from Osmania University and joined CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology as Junior Scientist. She is in the research field for more than 2 decades and significantly contributed in the field of Ecotoxicology, Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology and Environmental Biology. She has published more than 25 research articles in reputed peer reviewed National and International journals. She has been awarded YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD for the year 1993 by National Environmental Science Academy (NESA), gold medal for academic excellence and SCIENTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD -2012 by NESA. She has edited a book entitled “ECOTOXICOLOGY” published by InTech. She is on the editorial board of many International journals of toxicology and environmental sciences. To site a few, Toxicology (Elsevier Science only Indian on the board), African journal of environmental science and technology, journal of environmental chemistry and ecotoxicology.

She is actively engaged in developing biomarkers which are very useful to assess and control the risk of long term outcomes associated with exposure to xenobiotics.

Halmuthur.M.Sampath Kumar, Medicinal Chemist and Immunologist, graduated from chemistry department Gulbarga University, India securing first rank and a gold medal in 1986. After a brief stint in a leading pharmaceutical Industry based in south India, he joined Regional research Laboratory, Hyderabad as research officer in 1988, where he worked on Biomimetic chemistry and obtained his Ph.D degree in the year 1995. He later worked on various aspects of agrochemical and pharmaceutical technology development at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad. During this period , Dr. Kumar acquired extensive training and skills in combinatorial Chemistry and development of new synthetic methods, organometallic chemistry, green chemistry and synthesis of complex carbogenic molecules. His work in the afore mentioned areas led to several publications in reputed international journals and his efforts in basic and applied areas of organic synthesis won him several awards and recognitions. He later moved to Max Planck Institute for Molecular physiology at Dortmund in the year 2000 as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow to work in Prof . Waldmann’s laboratory in the area of gene therapy till 2002. He continued working in IICT-Hyderabad till 2003 and relocated to Regional Research Laboratory-Jammu. He had been the chairman of the Department of Synthetic and Biological Chemistry(presently rechristened as Medicinal Chemistry) at IIIM-Jammu dedicated to medicinal Chemistry research. Currently Dr .Kumar is the nodal scientist for the Vaccine immunology programme at CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, where his focus is on the development of novel vaccine/drug delivery vehicles, vaccine(Th1) adjuvants, small molecule immunomodulators based on natural product scaffolds. His team was instrumental in developing cost effective technology for several drugs and agrochemicals which are successfully commercialized in India and abroad. Dr. Kumar successfully completed collaborative projects with various reputed multinationals like P&G and Colgate Palmolive in the area of cosmeceuticals and oral care products. Dr. Halmuthur Kumar has published 106 research papers in various international journals of repute and patented his inventions. He is serving a editorial board members for many international journals.

Organic Synthesis: • Development of novel nanoparticle, nano capsule and nano emulsion based vaccine and drug delivery systems. • Development of Novel Th1 adjuvants for subunit vaccines based on Pathogen associated molecular patterns • Target based drug design. Structural modifications of natural products as a means of new lead discovery and synthesis of focused libraries of target interactive ligands based on natural products scaffolds • Bio-conjugate chemistry- Anticancer, anti-infective hybrid molecules. • Development of wholly synthetic vaccines based on tumor/microbial associated glycopeptide antigens, antigen epitopes. • Solid phase synthesis of carrier peptide-conjugates and their application in plant secondary metabolic engineering and gene therapy. • Total synthesis of complex carbogenic molecules and development of new synthetic methods. Novel combinatorial methodologies.

Lakshmi Rao is Principal Scientist at the Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, a position she has held since 1999 (after joining CCMB in 1995). She graduated from Lakshmi Narayan Institute of Technology in Biochemistry, Nagpur in 1993. While serving as Scientist at CCMB, completed her PhD at Hyderabad, Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad. She completed her postdoctoral studies in 2013 at Florida International University, Miami, United States. In 1997 she joined Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, as a Scientist on Contract establishing Chromosome Diagnostics Services.She was awarded the travel grants from Royal Society of Edinburgh, and presented her work in London, Japan and United States. She has about 42 publications and successfully coordinated in guidance of PhD students and imparted training in cytogenetics to several students and establishing centers for human cytogenetics. Finally her contributions in cytogenetics helped in bridging patients as geneticist with clinicians and doctors across the country and provided tremendous help for human cause in society.

Nanostructured materials and their application to make electronic devices , Fabrication of Low cost light emitting device and its application in cancer therapy, Low temperature stabilization of boron based materials (borane, boride and borates) and stabilization of higher oxidation states in binary and ternary metal oxides, Quantum dots based Colloidal nanostructures and their application in making flexible electronic devices, Production and storage of H2 using nanostructured materials

Dr. Menaka Jha is working as a Scientist-B in the Institute of Nano Science and Technology, located at Habitat Centre, Phase – 10, Sector 64, Mohali, Punjab, India since March, 2015. She has worked as a Senior Scientist at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in the area of water purification during Dec-14 to Feb-15. During Feb-2013 to Nov-2014, she has worked as a postdoctoral research associate in University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA (Feb-2013 to Aug-2014) and University of Illinois, Chicago, USA (Sept-2014 to Nov-2014). Dr. Jha, received her M.Sc. degree from University of Delhi in 2006 and Ph.D degree from Indian Institute of Technology in 2012. Dr. Jha is an author of one book chapter, 24 papers in reputed journal along with 4 patents.  Some of the Technology developed from her patent has been successfully transfer to HEMRL, DRDO, Pune.

Nanostructured materials and their application to make electronic devices , Fabrication of Low cost light emitting device and its application in cancer therapy, Low temperature stabilization of boron based materials (borane, boride and borates) and stabilization of higher oxidation states in binary and ternary metal oxides, Quantum dots based Colloidal nanostructures and their application in making flexible electronic devices, Production and storage of H2 using nanostructured materials

Rituraj Konwar is a graduate in veterinary medicine with specialization in reproductive biology and biotechnology from Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), India. He has significant experience in basic cancer biology and cancer drug discovery research. In addition, he also works in the area human cancer immune-genomics.

Cancer biology, human cancer immune-genomics

I have received my PhD in 2008 in Biochemistry from Lucknow University. Presently working as Scientist in department of Neurobiology / Neurotoxicity, Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) since 2006. I have nearly 30 publications resulting to Cumulative impact factor of 90.74 till date. I am presently also supervising the three senior research fellows (fellowships are from CSIR, UGC and ICMR) for their fulfillment of doctoral degree. All the three students are registered from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for the award of their doctoral degree. I have also guided more than 35 dissertation trainees for their partial fulfillment of postgraduate degree. One student has finished her doctoral work and published the research article in peer reviewed International Journal (Molecular Neurobiology) of impact factor 5.2. Two more MSs are in preparation from her research work. Honors include Raman Research Fellowship, Awardee of Indo – US Fellowship, Team member of CSIR technology award.

Parkinson’s disease (PD) pathology, dopaminergic neuronal death , dementia pathology, antialzheimer’s therapeutic, drug piracetam, piracetam induced cytoprotection, neuroprotectants, antimalarial drug arteether .

Dr Shailendra K. Saxena is an independent Senior Scientist of Medical Biotechnology and Project Leader at CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in India. He has a wide ranging experience in infectious diseases research. The main research interests of his group are in the epidemiology and molecular mechanisms of host defense during human viral infections with a special focus on RNA viruses (HIV, JEV etc.). He has received many awards and honors including the Fogarty International Center, NIH (USA) MERIT Award, for HIV/AIDS prevention research (2008-2018). He was named as the “Global Leader in Science” by The Scientist magazine (USA) and as an “International Opinion Leader / Expert” by the International Pharmaceutical Industry Consultants (UK).

Medical Microbiology, Virology, Molecular Virology, Infectious Diseases, Antiviral drug development.

Dr.S.Poopathi is an eminent scientist in the field of ‘Medical Entomology’. Has over 25 years of research and teaching experience in Biomedical research. He completed his MSc in zoology from A.N.J.A. College, Sivakasi and MPhil in zology from A.P.A.A. College, Palani in 1984 and 1985 respectively. He Received his Ph.D in entomology from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India in 1990. He secured Best Researcher Award for excellence in Professional & Industry in 2014.

molecular biological studies on purification and characterization of mosquitocidal toxins, B.sphaericus resistant gene identification, identification of novel bacteria from marine resources (sea-shore) for mosquito vector control and in addition recycling the biological wastes from environment and vector surveillance.

Dr. Swati Jagdale M.Pharm, Ph.D, M.B.A studied at University of Pune, Pune, India. She is presently working as Professor and Head, Department of Pharmaceutics at MAEER’s Maharashtra Institute of Pharmacy, MIT Campus, Kothrud, Pune, (MS), India. She has 15 years of academic experience. She has expertise in field of formulation development of pharmaceuticals. She has worked in research areas of solubility enhancement techniques, floating drug delivery, pulsatile drug delivery, buccal drug delivery, organogels, emulgel, transdermal drug delivery system, SMEDDS, microemulsion based drug delivery, nasal drug delivery etc. She has published more than 70 national and international research articles in reputed journals. She has three books to her credit. She is Member of Board of Studies for Faculty of Pharmaceutics in University of Pune. She has guided more than 30 post graduate students. Presently seven Ph.D and five M. Pharm students are working under her guidance.

Site targeted drug delivery, SMEDDS, Microemulsion based drug delivery, Prodrug.

Prof. Yuri L. Lyubchenko received his PhD in Molecular Biophysics from the Moscow Institute Physics and Technology (Russia) during the period of 1969-1971. He also received D. Sc. degree in Molecular Biology from Institute of Molecular Genetics (Moscow, Russia) in 1989. Currently, he is Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE. Research of Lyubchenko focuses on understanding fundamental mechanisms underlying health and disease, which are key to developing new and more effective diagnostics and medications. This primarily basic research allows him not only identify new drug targets for small molecule drugs, it also leads to development of the tools and methods to discover novel approaches for diagnostic, treatment and disease prevention and to more rapidly determine their efficacy at the molecular level.

Molecular biophysics; DNA replication and recombination; protein-DNA interaction; chromatin structure and dynamics; molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; amyloid protein aggregation; protein misfolding, alpha-synuclein; beta amyloid; protein-protein interaction; computational modeling; Nanomedicine; nanoimaging; single molecule biophysics; force spectroscopy; atomic force microscopy; AFM.