EDITORIAL SECTIONS

Ryan Varghese is a student and researcher affiliated with the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Poona College of Pharmacy, India. His work spans a spectrum of topics from artificial intelligence to cancer theranostics and drug delivery in Alzheimer's disease.His specialisation lies in the drug delivery modalities in chronic diseases. He has curated several articles on the lacunae in the Government public policies while providing solutions for the same. His recent works include the proposal of drug repurposing and affordable hospitalisation to mitigate the risk stemming from COVID-19 in India.

Sahil Salvi is a student and researcher associated with the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Poona College of Pharmacy, India. His works spans across a broad variety of topics, with specialisations in drug delivery and pharmaceutics, especially in chronic diseases. His keen interest in the latter has driven him to curate scientific articles in pharmaceutics and pharmacology.

Dileep Kumar is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Poona College of Pharmacy. He is a pioneer in his field with his forte in the treatment and novel drug delivery in Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, especially adamantyl analogs as GluN2B selective NMDA receptor agonists. He is also an awardee of the Junior Research Fellowship from the National Medicinal Plant Board (NMPB) New Delhi, Senior Research Fellowship from the University Grants Commission (UGC), Teaching Assistantship, and Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship from IIT (BHU) Varanasi. He is the Guest editor of Prestigious journals like Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, CTMC, Current drug target, combinatorial chemistry, and molecules.

Sindhoor S M is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics at Sri Adichunchanagiri College of Pharmacy, Mandya, Karnataka. His areas of specialisation include nanotechnology-based drug delivery system, lipid-based formulations, Topical delivery and gastroretentive in situ gel systems. He has published eight papers based on nanotechnology and lipid-based drug delivery system in peer reviewed indexed journals. Presently he is involved in the development of lipid-based delivery systems.

Marina Koland, is Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmaceutics at the NGSM Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nitte (Deemed to be University), Mangalore. Her area of specialisation in research is mucoadhesive and nanoparticulate drug delivery. She has published 50 research papers in peer reviewed journals, presented papers at 10 National and 3 International Conferences and worked on several Nitte University funded projects. She is currently working on solid lipid nanoparticles and micelles as drug carriers for targeting.

Dr. M. Aamir Mirza is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics, Jamia Hamdard, an NIRF Rank 1 institute and a NAAC ‘A+” grade deemed to be University. He has a multifaceted career portfolio adorned with both industry and academic accomplishments. During his industry stay he became a seasoned scientist and dealt with challenging NCE/NDA development. He is on advisory boards of some international research-based companies of India, New Zealand and Europe. Academics and Research being close to his heart, he has published more than 110 manuscripts in the journals of international repute and has been granted 02 Indian patent and filed for 04. He has contributed several chapters in books published by reputed authors like Elsevier and Bentham. He is amongst the very few scientists globally who has an expertise in Humic substances research. A well-travelled scientist; he has delivered scientific addresses in countries like USA, Austria, Japan, Netherlands, Turkey, Estonia, Spain and Russia. He has been Elite Fellow at University of Malaya (Malaysia) for the last 5 years where he takes classes on the topics related to industrial pharmacy.

Saurabh Srivastava is Associate Professor in Department of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Hyderabad. He carries more than 15 years of profound industrial and research experience working with several Pharmaceutical R&Ds, including IPCA labs, Wockhardt research centre and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories for development and commercialisation of various NDA and ANDA based products for different regulated markets. He is actively involved in execution of several Industrial and Govt. aided research projects for establishment of novel differentiated (505 b 2) product development. He has 02 Commercial Products, 10 International and National Patents, 01 Edited book, 10 Book chapters along with 25 research publications in Journals of International repute to his credit.

Saurabh Shah is currently pursuing his Ph.D. from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Hyderabad. He has published 2 research papers, 4 review articles and 2 book chapters in renowned journals. His research focus lies in hastening the clinical translation of nanomedicine-based products from bench to bedside. He has also been involved in numerous industry research and development projects from laboratory to pilot scale up.

I am Chanchal Kumawat. I started my journey in science as Ph.D. student at Regional Centre for Biotechnology and continued as postdoctoral fellow at Max Perutz labs, Austria.  I enjoyed making scientific discoveries in the laboratory and now, enjoy communicating it as a science writer.