Editors
President: Prof. Sukhbir Kaur
Vice Presidents: Prof. A. M. Khan
Dr. D. V. Desai
Secretary: Dr. J. K. Saxena
Joint- Secretary: Dr. Renu Tripathi
Treasurer: Dr. A. K. Dwivedi
Executive Committee Members:
Prof. Nirupama Agrawal, University of Lucknow, Lucknow.
Prof. Harpreet Kaur, Panjab University, Chandigarh
Prof. Shailja Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Dr. L.D. Singla, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Science University, Ludhiana
Dr. P.M.S. Chauhan, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
Dr. Jawahar Lal, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
Dr. Satish Mishra, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
Dr. C. Soundararajan, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Dr. Prasanta Saini, Indian Council Medical Research- Vector Control Research Centre, Kerala
Dr. Ankit Gupta, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raebareli, U.P
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. S. L. Hoti
ICMR-Emeritus Scientist at ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Puducherry and
Former Director-in-Charge & Scientist 'G', ICMR-National Institute of Traditional Medicine, Belagavi. Karnataka.
Editors:
Dr. S.L. Hoti, Ph.D., Indian Council Medical Research -Emeritus Scientist- Vector Control Research Centre, Puducherry, Former Director iC & Scientist 'G', Indian Council Medical Research, National Institute of Traditional Medicine, Belagavi, India. Email: slhoti@yahoo.com, hotigood@gmail.com
Specialization: Translational research on traditional medicine, molecular biology and immunology, drug and diagnostics development, Filariasis, Clinical Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Pathology, Epidemiology & Control of Vector-borne Diseases.
Prof. Nirupama Agrawal, Ph.D, Indian Science Congress Association-Ashutosh Mukerjee Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow.
E-mail: dr_neeru_1954@yahoo.co.in
Specialization: Biodiversity, Taxonomy, Ecology and Evolution, Systematics, Evolution, Phylogenetic Analysis, Species Diversity, Taxonomy.
Dr. Pawan Malhotra Ph.D, Arturo Falaschi Emeritus Scientist (AFES), Malaria Biology, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India. E-mail: pawanm@icgeb.res.in.
Specialization: Malaria biology, Molecular biology, Parasite biology.
Dr. Kishore Srivastava, Professor, Ph.D, Chief Scientist (Retd.), Ex-Head and Chairperson, Chief Scientist (Retd.), Ex-Head and Chairperson, Division of Microbiology, Ex-Head Quality Assurance Unit (National GLP Compliance Monitoring Authority), Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226031, India, Email: kishorecdri@yahoo.com
Specialization: Immunology: Cell Biology: Molecular Biology: Tissue Culture and in vivo experiments, Genetics, Signal Transduction, Mycobacterium.
Dr. Sukhbir Kaur, M.Sc., Ph.D, Professor, Department of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh; sukhbir@pu.ac.in; puzoology@yahoo.com,
Specialization: Parasite therapeutics, Immunology, Protozoology, Vaccinology, Leishmaniasis
Dr. Shailja Bhattacharya, Professor, Ph.D, Former Chief Scientist & Head, Division of Parasitology Ex Consultant, GLP Animal Facility, Laboratory Animal Division, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, Email:shailja_cdri@rediffmail.com/ shailjacdri@yahoo.com
Specialization: Parasitology, Helminthology, Immunology, Filariasis, Vaccination, drug discovery
Dr. D.V. Desai, Information Scientist Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganesh Khind, Pune 411007. E-mail: ach_dvd@yahoo.com,
Specialization: Computational Biology, Immunoinformatics
Prof. A.K.Yadav, Ph.D, Former Head, Department of Zoology, North- Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong.
E-mail: akyadav@nehu.ac.in
Specialization: Traditional medicine-inspired antiparasitic drug development, Toxicity assessment, isolation/characterization of natural therapeutics, Validations of Ayurvedic formulations, Biodiversity of Nematomorpha.
Editorial Board Members:
Prof. R. Madhavi, Ph.D, Former Professor at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India Email: madhavi.rokkam050@gmail.com
Specialization: Trematoda, Helminthology, Evolutionary Parasitology, Fish Parasitology, Protozoology, Vibrio, Parasite Ecology, Parasitic Disease, Trematode Infections.
Dr. Satish Mishra, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow; Email: satish.mishra@cdri.res.in, Tel: 0522-2772450 EPABX-4529;
Specialization: Malaria, Drug Targeting, Molecular Parasitology and Immunology
Prof. Harpreet Kaur, Ph.D, Department of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Mobile: +91-9876145014, E-mail: harpreetbimbra@pu.ac.in
Specialization: Veterinary Parasitology, Fish Parasitology, Plant Nematology, Molecular Phylogeny of Helminth and Myxozoan parasites
Dr. Vas Dev , Senior Scientist (Retired), Indian Council of Medical Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, GOI.
E-mail: mrcassam@hotmail.com
Specialization: Mosquito vector biology, Epidemiology and Control of malaria
Dr. T. Mariappan, Centre for Research in Medical Entomology, Madurai, India Email: crmeicmr@icmr.org.in
Specialization: Medical Entomology-Vector Biology, Ecology &Control, insecticides and biopesticides.
Dr. Jamal Gharekhani, Ph.D, Laboratory Head & Researcher, Iranian Veterinary Organization, Central Veterinary Laboratory, Hamedan, Iran. Email: gharekhani_76@yahoo.com
Specialization: Brucellosis, Veterinary Parasitology, Zoonoses, Epidemiology.
Dr. P.K. Mohapatra, MBBS, MAE (Master in Applied Epidemiology), Scientist F, Regional Medical Research Centre, Dibrugarh, India. Email: pkmdibr@gmail.com
Specialization: Applied Epidemiology, Malaria, Epidemiology and Public Health, Biostatistics, Molecular Biology.
Prof. S. Rathaur, Ph.D. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Email: isp.bhu@gmail.com ; sushma@banaras.ernet.in
Specialization: Enzyme Kinetics, Protein biochemistry, Enzymology
Dr. K. Saravu, MD, DNB, DTM&H(London), Professor & Head of the Dept., Department of Infectious Diseases, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India. Email: kavitha.saravu@manipal.edu
Specialization: Infectious Diseases, Malaria, , Tuberculosis, HIV, Scrub typhus, Melioidosis.
Dr. B. Sharma, Ph.D, Department of Biochemistry & Ex-Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India. Email: sharmabi@yahoo.com
Specialization: Molecular Biology, Tropical Disease Research, Biochemical Toxicology
Dr. Alok Singh, Principal Scientist, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, 9625 Towne Centre , California, San Diego, USA-92121
E-mail: aloksinghbhu@gmail.com
Specialization: Cancer Research, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology.
Dr. Shweta Joshi, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Moore’s Cancer Centre, University of California, San Diego, 3855 Health Sciences Drive, California, San Diego, USA- 92003.
E-mail: shwetajoshi2@gmail.com
Specialization: Cancer Research, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology.
Dr. Diksha Katiyar, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry (MMV) Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
Email Id: dikshakatiyar@gmail.com
Specialization: Synthesis Catalysis, Amino Alcohols, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Heterocyclic Chemistry.
Dr. Hemlata Dwivedi Agnihotri, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi. E-mail: biophysics.du.ac.in
Specialization: Drug Resistance, Malaria, Cheminformatics and Computational Chemistry, Parasitic Diseases (Trypanosoma brucei brucei), Immunohistochemistry, Caenorhabditis elegans.
Dr. Himanshu Gupta, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Applied Sciences & Humanities, GLA University, Mathura. E-mail: himanshu.gupta@gla.ac.in
Specialization: Malaria, antimalarial resistance, malaria diagnosis, RNA Sequencing, Genomics, Infectious diseases, microRNAs, Molecular techniques and Machine learning