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Vinoth-Kumar Lakshmanan is a Senior Investigator and Professor for Prostate Cancer Biomarker Laboratory, Faculty of Clinical Research at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU), India and Adjunct Professor of Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Vinoth has 20+ years’ experience in cancer biology. Scientific H Index 33 achieved with 4500 plus citations. He obtained Ph.D from University of Strasbourg, France, Post Doctoral from University of Regensburg and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

Dr. Disha Marwaha received her PhD in biological sciences from CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR-CDRI), India in 2024. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the GLA University, Mathura. She has more than 20 publications in international peer-reviewed Journals. She is an expert in formulation and development, nanomedicine and pharmacokinetics focusing on innovative therapeutic and targeted drug delivery systems.

Dr. Neha Singh received her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR-CDRI), India, in 2025. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Lloyd School of Pharmacy, Greater Noida. Dr. Singh has contributed extensively to the field of pharmaceutical sciences, with many publications, patents, and book chapters in internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals. Her primary research interests include formulation development, nanomedicine and pharmacokinetics, with a focus on innovative therapeutic strategies and targeted drug delivery systems. Dr. Singh’s work reflects her commitment to advancing precision medicine and developing next-generation solutions for healthcare.

Atiya Saiyed is a Ph D student at Iladevi Cataract and IOL Research Centre and registered at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal. She is Senior Research Fellow from Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi. Atiya does research in the fields of molecular biology, cell biology, and cancer biology.

Abhay R. Vasavada is a well-known ophthalmologist who founded Raghudeep Eye Clinic (REH) and Iladevi Cataract and IOL Research Centre (ICIRC) in Ahmedabad, India. In 2011, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ASCRS) gave him the Binkhorst Medal Lecture, making him the first Indian and just the second Asian to get the honour. He has almost 140 publications to his credit.

Kaid Johar SR is an Associate Professor in Department of Zoology and Biomedical TechnologyGujarat University, who specialized in cell and molecular biology, ophthalmology, cancer, and toxicology. He has almost 50 publications in prestigious journals.

Sneha Rai completed her Ph.D. from Computational and Structural Biology Lab., Department of Biological Sciences and Engineering at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (DU). She did masters in Bioinformatics from Banaras Hindu University and holds six years of bioinformatics research experience. Her area of interest includes structural bioinformatics, systems biology, protein/gene network analysis, data mining, computer aided drug designing, computational genomics, NGS data analysis, variant analysis and their clinical interpretation.

Venugopal Bhatia graduated from NSIT in 2019 with a B.E. in Biotechnology. During his undergraduate studies he was involved as an undergraduate researcher at the Computational and Structural Biology Laboratory and worked on two projects which were later published in Nature Scientific Reports and Elsevier Computational Biology and Chemistry. After a brief stint in industry, he's now pursuing his Master's at Yale.

Sonika Bhatnagar, Ph.D. (Biophysics), AIIMS works in the broad area of computational molecular biology. Her laboratory uses techniques of drug target selection, drug design & discovery, machine learning, and integrative genomics & proteomics towards Cardiovascular disease drug design and infectious disease therapeutics.

Ruchi is currently designated as Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi-221005, (U.P.), India. Her area of research is nanotechnology based drug delivery systems for targeted delivery of drugs and addressing issues related to conventional dosage forms like poor bioavailability, solubility, higher dose. She has more than 20 publications in international scientific journals including original research articles, reviews and book chapters. e-mail ID – rchawla.phe@iitbhu.ac.in

Krishan Kumar is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics at Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, IIT BHU. His research focus on targeted and controlled drug delivery approaches in Nano-therapeutics. He has authored or co-authored 8 publications in international scientific journals in his fields of expertise. He has 2 years 8 months R&D experience in Reckitt Benckiser (India) Ltd. e-mail ID- krishaniskrishan@gmail.com

Varsha Rani is currently Ph.D. research scholar at Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering and Technology, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India. She is involved in research area focussed on nanocarriers for brain targeted drug delivery system. She has contributed to ten publications including research article, review article and book chapter in reputed scientific journals. She has also done industrial training from Evonik India Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai, India. e-mail ID – varsharani.rs.phe17@itbhu.ac.in

Mohini Mishra is a PhD research scholar at Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi, India and his area of research is focused on the development of nanoparticulate-based targeted drug delivery systems against BHneurodegenerative diseases. She has authored and co- authored nine publications in international scientific journals and three are in the pipeline. e-mail ID- mohini.mishra0203@gmail.com