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Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman, Ph.D. in organic chemistry (Cambridge University, 1968), has over 1,055 international publications including 210 books. He won the UNESCO Science Prize (1999) and was elected Fellow of Royal Society (London, 2006). He was conferred honorary doctorate degrees by many universities including Cambridge University and many others. Furthermore, Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman was elected Honorary Life Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University, and the Austrian government honoured him with its high civil award “Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeischen am Bande" (2007). He is the only scientist from the Muslim world to be Foreign Fellow (“Academician”) of Chinese and Korean Academies of Sciences. The University of Technology Mara (UiTM), Malaysia, has established “Atta-ur-Rahman Institute of Natural Product Discovery” in his honour. Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman was the Federal Minister of Science and Technology of Pakistan, and he is Chairman of UN Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation for UNESCAP region covering 62 countries.

I am a professor from College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, China. I has more than 20 years of experience in the research of animal toxin peptides, involving in cDNA, genome, biological and pharmacological roles (such as anti-virus, anti-tumor, ion-channel-modulating), molecular diversity and evolution. I graduated Ph.D from College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, China in 2004. I was also a visiting scholar of Meharry Medical College, USA from 2014 to 2015. Notably, I has authored more than 100 manuscripts and 12 patents. I was an Excellent Young Scholar of China National Science Fund in 2014 and got Youth Science and Technology Award from Chinese Society of Toxicology in 2016.

Jean-Marc Sabatier is a Director of research at the French CNRS, with PhD and HDR degrees in Biochemistry and Microbiology. He headed several academic research teams (CNRS, INSERM and University), as well as a combined academic-industry research laboratory devoted to the engineering of therapeutic peptides (ERT62, Marseilles, France). He was also a Director of Research for several French private companies as well as a Canadian public company. He acts as a Consultant for top pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies. Dr. Sabatier works in the field of animal toxins. He so far contributed to several books in toxinology and virology, and more than 160 scientific articles, 180 communications, and 53 patents in both biology and chemistry.

Dr. Gaurav Dhiman received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. He has completed his Master Degree of Computer Applications from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Government Bikram College of Commerce, Patiala. He was selected as an outstanding reviewer from Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier). He has published more than 50 peer-review research papers (indexed in SCI-SCIE) and 5 international books. He is also serving as the guest editor of more than five special issues in various peer-reviewed journals. He is also in editorial board members of Current Chinese Computer Science (Bentham Science), Current Dissertations (Bentham Science), Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Modeling in Engineering (Bentham Science), Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Computer (IEC Science), Journal of PeerScientist, Artificial Intelligence Evolution, Acta Scientific Computer Sciences. His research interest includes Single-, Multi-, Many-objectives optimization (Bio-inspired, Evolutionary and Quantum), Soft computing (Type-1 and Type-2 fuzzy sets), Power systems, and Change detection using remotely sensed high-resolution satellite data. His research articles can be found in Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier), Advances in Engineering Software (Elsevier), Applied Intelligence (Springer), Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier), Engineering with Computers (Springer), Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (Springer), among others. His research can also be seen in http://www.dhimangaurav.com

Dr. Mastinu completed his PhD in 2014 from University of Cagliari. The main topic of his research was the cannabinoids and energetic metabolism. Dr. Mastinu published more than 20 publications in indexed and international journals with h-index of 15. Now, Dr. Mastinu is the principal investigator for several projects: “Characterization new bioactive cannabimimetic natural entities in mouse models” and “Phytocannabinoids characterization from Cannabis sativa”. Dr. Mastinu was the winner of the Otsuka 2017 Prize for Neuropsychopharmacological Research.

Seyed Mohammad Nabavi is a Biotechnologist and senior scientist in the Applied Biotechnology Research Centre, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. His research interests are focused on natural products. Till now, he has authored/co-authored over 250 publications in international journals indexed in ISI and has more than 7000 citations to published articles and also more than 10 books.

Dr Ali Ahmad received a PhD in Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University, USA. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Montreal. He has extensive training and experience in investigating immune responses in viral infections, cancer, autoimmune and chronic inflammatory diseases. He has a sound and in-depth knowledge of immunology. He can develop and teach courses in immunology, virology and microbiology to both undergraduate and graduate students. Due to his outstanding contribution, he received several awards and has published many articles in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Muhammad Akram is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Eastern Medicine, Directorate of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Government College University Faisalabad. His research interests are Hyperuricemia, Xanthine oxidase inhibition by some selected medicinal plants, Enzyme Inhibition, Study of traditional system medicine (Indusyunic Medicine) Phytochemistry, and poisonous plants. He has contributed more than 96 publications in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Amjad Ali working as an Assistant Professor at Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), since in 2013. He has been actively pursuing career in both academic and research. Dr. Amjad have been pursuing research in the area of Microbial Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology. Amjad’s group has produced interesting genomic and proteomic data and findings, thus far, he has contributed more than nearly 100 Journals (Citations: 1653 and H-index 22) along with several book chapters. These International journals include Nature Neuroscience, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, and Physiology, Integrative Biology, BMC Genomics and, Bioinformatics and J. Bacteriology, etc. Amjad has secured several research grants (as PI and Co-PI), on a highly competitive ground. He also has supervised several PhD and Master Thesis. During the past years, Amjad Ali has been awarded the “Best Research Paper Award” for the year 2013/14 by Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan (2016). Awarded “Best Researcher Award” for the year 2016/17 by ASAB, NUST. Later, awarded with “Research Productivity Award (RPA)” in Biological Sciences (2017) by Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST), 2018.

Nanobiotechnologist working on the interface of viruses, chemistry, biology, and materials sciences utilizing viruses and naturally occurring nano biomaterials as drug carriers, template for materials synthesis for various applications, and immunotherapy. Viruses are an amazing architect with unique properties from their self-assembly to the uniformity in both structure and composition making them ideal nano template materials.

Dr. Leonard Amaral is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a Distinguished Invited Scientist Fellow of the Fundacao de Ciencias e Tecnologia de Portugal. He received his PhD from the State University of New York (SUNY) in 1968. He has published over 400 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include Infectious diseases, Tuberculosis, Multi-Drug Resistance, Molecular Biology, and Drug Development. His area of current main contributions include a) Development of therapy by which the resistance of MDR/XDR Mtb is by-passed and the non-killing macrophage is transformed into a killer of MDR/XDR Mtb, and b) Therapy of MDR/XDR TB with an inexpensive drug that is beyond patent protection, has no serious toxicity and has been now shown to cure XDR TB. Besides, he has received Medal of Merit from the Universidad Nova de Lisboa in 2018.

Cedric Annweiler, MD, PhD, is Full Professor in Geriatric Medicine and Biology of Aging and the Head of the Department of Geriatrics in the University Hospital of Angers, France. He is the Head of the Research Center on Autonomy and Longevity, Angers. Since 2017, he is also the Director of the Medical School of the Health Faculty in Angers University. With more than 275 peer-reviewed publications in high impact journals, Dr Annweiler pioneers a research work on the non-skeletal effects of lipophilic vitamins including vitamin D. The impact of this research has led to new therapeutic approaches in various diseases, including several patents.

Dr. Debasish Bandyopadhyay is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Tenure-track), Department of Chemistry, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA. He received his PhD from the Department of Chemistry, Calcutta University, India. The title of the thesis was, “Studies on Nitrogen Heterocycles.” His specific areas of interest include Food Chemistry, Natural Product Chemistry, Organic/Medicinal Chemistry, and Green chemistry. He has published 75 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals along with 7 book chapters, 1 edited book and 1 patent. Besides, he is an editorial board member, associate editor, and a reviewer of 7, 1 and 46 international journals respectively. His research expertise include processing and chemical analysis of phytochemicals as they relate to human health and disease, elucidation of basic composition, structure and properties of the bioactive compounds and micronutrients, and extraction, isolation, characterization, and chemical modification of medicinally and/or industrially privileged chemicals from foods and food waste.

Dr. Branlant Christiane is a Director of Research from CNRS, exceptional class (DRCE2), Emeritus. She is currently working at the CNRS-Lorraine University IMoPA Laboratory Molecular Engineering and osteoarticular Physiopathology and is also in the Medical Faculty of the Lorraine University, Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France. She received a PhD in Molecular Biology at the CNRS Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC) of Strasbourg under the direction of Pr J.P. Ebel in 1977. She has published 157 peer-reviewed articles in distinguished journals. Her research expertise includes RNA structure/function/evolution interaction with proteins, RNP assembly, structure and activity, Ribosome structure and biogenesis, Spliceosome structure, assembly, mechanisms of regulation, Small and large non-coding RNAs structure and function, Modified residues in RNAs, and Viral RNAs: structure, interactions with protein, translation, splicing.

Dr. Shiu-Wan Chan, Ph.D., is currently a lecturer in the Faculty of Life Sciences, affiliated with the Microbiology research group, at The University of Manchester, UK. After obtaining her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at Edinburgh, she started her post-doctorate (also in Edinburgh) on pioneering hepatitis C virus (HCV) research and has made a major breakthrough in the discovery of a new genotype of the virus, its association with false negative blood donations and in the establishment of the current phylogenetic classification of the virus. Dr. Chan, as an author/co-author, has published more than 25 articles in various journals, having a noteworthy number of total citations, i.e. over 4,665.

Marcus Vinícius Nora de Souza is a Senior Technologist at Oswaldo Cruz Public Health Foundation – RJ, and leads a research group in organic chemistry, with an emphasis in organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry, acting on neglected diseases (tuberculosis and malaria), cancer and synthetic methodologies. He has authored more than 250 manuscripts, 5 patents and 3 books, and their formation includes a PhD in organic and bioorganic chemistry (Universite de Paris XI (Paris-Sud) – France) with a stage at the University of Barcelona – Spain, and three postdocs in organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry (University of Florida – USA, Federal University of Juiz de Fora – MG, Pharmaceutical industry Genzyme - Boston – USA).

Bachelor on Sci, MSci and DrSci in Biochemistry (Federal of Rio de Janeiro University). Visiting researcher at the Department of Medical Parasitology, NYU, USA and European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany. Was full Professor of Biochemistry at the Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, RJ, Brazil and Chief of the Biochemistry of Protein and Peptides Laboratory at Oswaldo Cruz Institute-FIOCRUZ, RJ, Brazil. Is Specialist in Sci & Technology Production and Innovation in Health of the Center for Technological Development in Healthy (FIOCRUZ-CDTS) and Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) of Brazil.

Dr Kapatral is a President, CEO of Igenbio, Inc Chicago. My background is in microbial-host genomics and bioinformatics to understand and discover new protein targets for drug discovery.

Wattana Leowattana is currently a Professor of Tropical Medicine and faculty member of the Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University. He also serves as a Director of Hospital for Tropical Diseases during 2005 – 2009. Dr Leowattana earned his MD. from Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. He completed his residency in Clinical Pathology and Family Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University in 1989 and a Master Degree in Clinical Science in 1991. He also earned a PhD Degree in Clinical Tropical Medicine in 2005.

I am an associate professor at Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. My research interests are epidemiology, machine learning, conservation planning, wildlife survey, animal movement, and species distribution modelling. I like to develop statistical tools to explore ecological patterns and processes, and to facilitate public health policies.

Prof. Yashpal Singh Malik is serving as a Principal Scientist & ICAR-National Fellow at the premier Veterinary Institute of the country- Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar India. Dr Malik has rich experience in veterinary and animal sciences with specialization in Microbiology and Biotechnology. His major research achievements include contributions in viral disease epidemiology, virus-host interactions, microbial biodiversity, characterization and diagnosis. Currently, he is working on development of new generation immunodiagnostics using synthetic and recombinant DNA technology. Prof Malik is recipient of several prestigious National, State and Academy level awards/honors. He has authored 5 books, 17 book chapters and 185 scientific research articles overall.

Prof. Stephen David Howard Malnick is the Head of the Dept. of Internal Medicine C Kaplan Medical Center. He is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the Hebrew University. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals. Besides, he is a member of the editorial board of the World Journal of Gastroenterology, World Journal of Hepatology, Journal of Hospital Administration, World Journal of Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, and Turkish Journal Gastroenterology. Also, he is a reviewer of scientific journals including Annals of Pharmacotherapy, European Journal of Internal Medicine, Lancet Cardiology, World Journal Gastroenterology, Journal Hospital Infection, Digestive Disease Sciences, BMC Gastroenterology, World Journal of Hepatology, Annals of Internal Medicine, and EMBIO.

Dr. Ziad Moussa grew up in Calgary, Canada where he undertook undergraduate and postgraduate studies in chemistry at the University of Calgary (B.Sc. 1998, Ph.D. 2003). His Ph.D. research was conducted under the supervision of professor Thomas George Back and focused on the synthesis and evaluation of some novel selenium-based chiral auxiliaries and glutathione peroxidase mimetics. Following postdoctoral research at Texas A&M University (2003-2006) in the laboratories of Professor Daniel Romo, Dr. Ziad joined the Department of Chemistry at Taibah University as an assistant professor. Currently, he is an associate professor of organic chemistry at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). His main research interests include the development of synthetic methodologies and the synthesis and characterization of novel selenium- and sulfur-based bioactive organic and heterocyclic compounds with anticancer, antiviral, and antimicrobial activities.

Dr. Rizvi pursued an MS and PhD combined degree program at the Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University (GSU), Atlanta, GA.Dr. Rizvi has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in top ranking journals two books and four book chapters. His research interests includes pharmaceutical formulations (direct compressed tablets, topical and liquid); Ionic liquid formation and co-crystallization of the pharmaceutical compounds; Nano and micro-encapsulation of the drugs for targeting and controlled release; Multistep synthesis of small organic molecules; Pharmaceutical analysis (forensics and method development); Design and synthesis of novel monomeric and polymeric surfactants for separation of chiral and achiral compounds in micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC).

Dr. Alex Gutterres Taranto received his Doctorate Degree in Organic Chemistry from the Federal Fluminense University, UFF, Niteroi, Brazil. He was a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, Oxford, the United States and International Center for Science and High Technology, ICS -UNIDO, Italy. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Federal University of São João del-Rei – UFSJ. He is also the Head of the Group of Molecular Modelling at Federal University of São João del-Rei. His research focus is on the development of new drugs using Computer Aided-Drug Design (CADD) methodologies. He has experience with Gaussian, Amber, Autodock Vina, Dock6, Mopac, Discovery Studio packages and Glide. This software can perform mechanical quantum calculations, docking, comparative homology modelling, molecular dynamics simulations, virtual screening and quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR). Also, Dr. Taranto has experience in Python and Shell Scripting Programming Languages. Besides, he has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Dr. Enzo Tramontano graduated in Biology in 1990 at the University of Cagliari, Italy. He spent four years at the Department of Pharmacology of the Yale University School of Medicine, USA, as a Visiting Research Scientist and was then recruited at the University of Cagliari, Italy, where is currently a Full Professor of Microbiology and serves as a Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Pharmacy. His main fields of interest are HIV drug development, the interplay between viruses and the innate immune system, and the human endogenous retroviruses.

Dr Yasin Tuluce received his Doctorate in Biology from the Van Yuzuncu Yil University in 2005. Currently, he is a Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Van Yuzuncu Yil University. He is a Member, an Editor, an Advisory Board Member and an Associate Editor of several international journals. Besides, he has won several awards such as Project ACUMEN, Van YYU Thanks Certificate. 2015, and Taylor & Francis Group "Certificate of Recognition" "Pharmaceutical Biology" Scientific Publication Certificate 2015. Moreover, he has published several papers in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Ram S. Upadhayaya is a serial entrepreneur and distinguished scientist specialized in the field of infectious diseases (HIV, Tuberculosis, and other neglected tropical diseases). He has more than 20 years of experience in industry and academia and holds 25 peer reviewed publications and 12 patents to his credit. In his previous assignments, Dr. Upadhayaya was associated with leading drug discovery companies like Lupin, Ranbaxy and Bioimics, Sweden. He briefly worked as Forskare (Asst. Professor) at Uppsala University, Sweden. During this journey he contributed to the discovery and development of three clinical candidates for different disease indications. Currently, he is the CEO of Laxai Life Sciences, Hyderabad and Co-founder & CSO of Ohm Oncology Inc., USA, a company focusing on oncology and neoplasms with a vision to bring forth novel drugs for management of treatment-refractory and difficult to treat cancers.

Dr. David Jay Weber is a Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Associate Chief Medical Officer of UNC Health Care, and a Director of regulatory services for the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute. He serves as a Medical Director of Hospital Epidemiology (infection control) and as a Director of the UNC Health Care Anti - Infective Stewardship (a broad-based program that includes dedicated ID pharmacists, drug information specialists, pediatric and adult infectious disease specialists, and molecular microbiologists). He is also board-certified in internal medicine, infectious disease, critical care medicine and preventative medicine. His research career has focused on healthcare-associated infections, antibiotic stewardship, new and emerging diseases (Pfiesteria, Cryptosporidia, norovirus) and vaccine implementation. Dr Weber also chairs the North Carolina Department of Health.

Dr. Leiliang Zhang is presently serving as a Professor and Principal Investigator at the Institute of Basic Medicine, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, China. He completed his B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China in 1999. He further obtained a PhD from College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China in 2004. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Dr. Ahmed has received his PhD in School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast, the N. Ireland-United Kingdom from 2000 to 2004. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor of Pharmacy at the College of Pharmacy at Gulf Medical University. He also served as a researcher and research supervisor for assisting the PhD and MSc postgraduate students at several universities (25 Master students and 2 PhD students). He was honoured as Editor of Medicine (Baltimore), Editorial board in many Journals and Regional editor. He is also serving as a reviewer in American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education-AJPE since 2008. He has authored 100 research articles, meta-analysis and editorial letters. He is a member of several professional and therapeutics committees like UAE University Ethics and Research Committee.

Dr Muhammad Ammar Athar graduated from Dr Qingge Li’s State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics at Xiamen University, China. His research work was focused on the molecular diagnosis of infectious diseases. He developed novel real-time PCR/MMCA based assays for the detection of drug-resistant mutations in Hepatitis B virus and genotyping/quantification of the Hepatitis C virus. He was awarded the "Best International Researcher Award 2013" at Xiamen University. During his postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers and Liquid Biopsy of Henan University China, he conducted his research on the discovery of non-invasive biomarkers for monitoring disease status and development of assays for detection of common mtDNA, based on droplet digital PCR technology. He has published his work in peer-reviewed journals. His current research interests are the development and validation of diagnostic tools to monitor emerging viral infections, especially in the Pakistani population.

Dr. Kirtikumar C. Badgujar is working as an Assistant Professor in, SIES College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Sion, Mumbai, India. He has completed his M.Sc. degree from North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon in 2008; where he secured University Rank FIRST and GOLD-MEDAL. He has completed his Ph.D. Research Studies from the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT: Formerly UDCT), Mumbai, India in December 2015, under the guidance of Prof. B. M. Bhanage. He secured several Prestigious Awards during his Ph.D. research studies such as Young Scientist Award and Best Ph.D. Research Thesis Award etc. Till time in his research studies, he has published Twenty Eight Peer Reviewed Research Articles (in International Reputed Journals) including High Impact Reviews and Reference Book-Chapter. He has Five Granted and Two Filed Indian patents in his credit. His research interest includes Enzymology, Biochemistry, Green chemistry, Enzyme- stability, Biocatalysis, Drug chemistry, Medicinal chemistry, Biomaterials and Biomass valorisation etc.

Dr. Asis Bala, received PhD from Jadavpur University, Kolkata India and Completed Post-Doc. at Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, South Africa. His area of interest are, Pathophysiology of Communicable and non-communicable Disease; Pharmacology; Toxicology; Free Radical Biology and cellular Inflammation and Immunopharmacology of different diseases. He supervised number of Masters and PhD students and acquired more than 500 Scopus citation in 2020 (April) having Scopus h index 14.

Dr. Tai-Heng Chen currently works at the Department of Pediatrics and Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital. He has been researching Pediatrics, Neurology, Neuromuscular Disorders, Genetic Diagnosis, and Emergency Medicine. His interests of research are pediatrics, neurological infectious disease, neurocritical care, neuromuscular disorders, non-coding RNA and Therapeutic Potentials in Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.

Dr. Mohammad Faheem Khan, Assistant Professor, Era University of Lucknow India, has more than 12 years of experience in natural product chemistry and medicinal chemistry. His research areas include: Identification of bioactive compounds from plants, development of new methodologies to purify the bioactive compounds as well as computer aided drug designing. He received his PhD in chemistry from Centarl Drug Research Institute, Lucknow India under the mentorship of Dr. Rakesh Maurya, a renowned scientist of India. Dr. Khan has published more than 40 research articles, reviews and book chapters in reputed journals. He is a life member of the Association of Chemistry Teachers of India and Society of Ethnopharmacology, India.

Dr. Nguyen Quoc Khanh Le is an Assistant Professor with the Professional Master Program in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. He earned his MS and PhD degree in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Graduate Program in Biomedical Informatics, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan. After obtaining his PhD degree, he worked as a Research Fellow at the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests are artificial intelligence, deep learning, bioinformatics, computational biology, radiogenomics, and healthcare informatics.

Dr. Zeeshan is working as an Assistant Professor at Umm Al Qura University. His research in M. Phil and Ph.D. broadly fell in the area of Organic, Pharmaceutical and Analytical Chemistry. Particularly, he is specialized in developing new methods and protocols for in vitro analysis of drug-drug interactions. He used HPLC coupled with UV-Vis spectrophotometry as analysis tools. He also researched for six months as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana. At Purdue, his stay was recognized by the Pakistani government and awarded the Higher Education Commission (HEC).

Dr. Sukhes Mukherjee is committed and hard-working faculty member involved in teaching and in research for last 16 years. He has a very active academic and research career. He has published more than 42 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has also presented his work at several national and international conferences. He got the best paper award from the “Association of Clinical Biochemists of India” in 2008. He got the International travel fellowship to attend the Neurochemistry conference at Busan, South Korea in August 2009 and another AACC fellowship in 2011. He is regularly giving training on behalf of his department to undergraduate and postgraduate medical students and himself getting training in the cutting-edge technologies of advancement in the field of Advanced Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular biology.

Dr. rer. nat Arli Aditya Parikesit is the head of bioinformatics department at i3L. He finished his bachelor and master both in Chemistry, University of Indonesia. In order to pursue the degree in Bioinformatics, he accepted DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) fellow to conduct doctorate research at Bioinformatics Group, Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics, University of Leipzig, Germany. His doctoral research is focused on the utilization of modern protein domain annotation techniques to the three domains of life. In addition, Dr. Arli is also an expert on immunoinformatics, in silico drug design, and in silico transcriptomics.

Dr. Vaishali M. Patil obtained her PhD degree (2014) in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India. Since 2017, Dr. Vaishali is Associate Professor in the KIET Group of Institutions (Department: School of Pharmacy) at Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, India. She has experience in application of computer aided drug design, QSAR and related medicinal chemistry approaches for biologically important classes of organic compounds. In addition she has experience in handling computational software and interpretation of analytical data (IR, NMR, MS). Dr. Vaishali is author of more than 45 papers published in indexed/peer reviewed Journals and 13 book chapters (Elsevier, Springer, Nova, etc.) with citation index of 200. She has received funding from various agencies to promote research activities of her lab.

Dr. Avadhesh Kumar Yadav is Assistant Professor in Department of Physics, F. A. A. Government Postgraduate College Mahmudabad Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has done his Ph.D. from University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India and post doctoral research from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi India. His research includes glass, glass ceramics, Science Communication, humidity and gas sensors. Currently, I am working on Coronavirus and COVID-19 and its impact on mental, psychological and physical health in peoples. He has published more than 3o research articles in journals of international repute. He has also published a book on Science Communication: Issues and Challenges.

Dr Zhou got his PHD degree from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry as the major of rational drug design. He finished his Postdoc training in Mcgill university as major of rational drug design. Dr Zhou come to IMB/CAS as associate professor since 2010, and became full professor of IMB/CAS in 2017. Since 2018, he became a professor in Zhejiang normal university and the director of DDIC. His group focuses on the development of anti-viral drugs and anti-cancer drugs. He has been approved for four NCSF grants and was nominated as “Xiehe’ star”. Up to now, his group has published more than 50 papers and 10 patents.

Dr. Luciana Scotti received her Ph.D. in Cosmetology and Molecular Modeling at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She did 3 years of Post-Doctorate in Pharmaceuticals at the Laboratory of Planning and Synthesis of Potentially Active Chemotherapies in Tropical Endemics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, USP. She has experience in Pharmacology Biochemistry and Molecular acting mainly in the following areas: natural products, Molecular Modeling, QSAR, and Chemometrics. She is the professor of the Post-Graduate Program of Bioactive Natural and Synthetic Products of the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil.