EDITORIAL SECTIONS

Soumyadip Das received a BSc degree from University of Calcutta, India, in 2017 and a MSc degree from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India, in 2019. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India, under the supervision of Dr. Kaushik Chanda. His research interest includes diversity-oriented synthesis, anticancer drug design, and nanocatalysis.

Balamurali MM, was awarded the Master’s degree in Chemistry, by Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu, India in 1999. He persuaded his doctoral research in Photophysical Chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, under the supervision of Prof. Sneh Kumar Dogra. In 2005, he was awarded the CSIR research associate fellowship and continued his postdoctoral research in Prof. Raghavan Varadarajan’s group at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.

Kaushik Chanda, obtained his MSc in Organic Chemistry from Gauhati University, Assam India in 2001. Subsequently worked as a Senior Research Fellow in ICAR-NATP funded project in St Anthonys College, Shillong, India from 2002-2005. In 2006, he moved to Taiwan for pursuing PhD in Applied Chemistry from National Chiao Tung University under the guidance of Prof Chung Ming Sun on a topic of Combinatorial Chemistry.

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.

Dr. Alejandra Guerchicoff is a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics with postdoctoral training in Molecular Cardiology and Genetics of Cardiac Arrhythmias. She works as an Industry Advisor for the TCS ADD™ platform with the Life Sciences unit at TCS. Dr. Guerchicoff has over 20 years of experience in clinical research and post-marketing pharmacovigilance for medical devices, drugs, combination products, gene and cell therapy, and software for medical device products. She has authored many prestigious journal publications and books on diverse subjects and therapeutic areas. In her current role, Dr. Guerchicoff works on developing innovative technology solutions with AI and other modern technologies across various life sciences operations.

Smriti Sharma Bhatia is an associate professor of chemistry at Miranda House, University of Delhi, India.  Her academic and research interests include Computational chemistry and drug design. Currently, her research group is focused on the design of oral drug formulations for Type 2 diabetes mellitus. She is a popular science communicator.

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