Dr. Vijay Mishra, PhD, is a Professor at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara (Punjab), India. He earned his doctoral degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Dr. H.S. Gour Central University, Sagar (MP), India. He has 15+ years of academic and research experience. Dr. Mishra has authored more than 160 research and review articles in various peer-reviewed international journals of high repute, 25 book chapters, 9 books, 10 Indian patents (filed and published), 1 Australian and 1 Indian patent (granted) and 5 Indian Copyrights (Granted). He has an h-index 43 and 6400+ citations to his credit. He has been a recipient of several internationally acclaimed fellowships and awards including Graduate Research Fellowship (AICTE, New Delhi), UGC-BSR Senior Research Fellowship (UGC, New Delhi) and International Travel Award/Grant (DBT, New Delhi). He is a life member of Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata, India. He serves as an Editorial Board Member of various peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Mishra has been selected as the World’s Top 2% scientists in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 as per Stanford University, USA report. His current research interests encompass nanomedicine, cancer, phytotherapeutics, dendrimers, carbon nanotubes, and novel drug delivery systems. Dr. Prashant Kesharwani is an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics at Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, India. He has over 12 years of teaching and research experience, specializing in translational nanomedicine, polymeric biomaterials, targeted drug delivery, and nanoengineered drug delivery systems. He has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications in reputed international journals and edited over 30 international books. His research has received widespread recognition, with an h-index exceeding 100. He has secured several competitive research grants from national funding agencies and received prestigious honors, including the USERN Laureate Award and the SERB–Ramanujan Fellowship. His research interests include nanomedicine, targeted and stimuli-responsive drug delivery, polymeric nanocarriers, and translational pharmaceutical research. He actively contributes to academic mentoring, scientific research, and scholarly publishing.Dr. Mohd Cairul Iqbal Mohd Amin is a Professor of Pharmaceutics in the Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is the youngest professor appointed in the faculty and the only expert in the area of pharmaceutics in UKM. He earned his BSc (Hons) in Pharmacy in 1996 and PhD in 2001 both from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. He is currently the Head of Drug Delivery and Novel Targeting Research Group in UKM. He also serves as panel expert in nanocellulose for drug delivery for the National Nanotechnology Centre, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia. His current research interests encompass responsive-hydrogel biomaterials for oral protein and peptide delivery, cell delivery in tissue engineering and nano drug delivery systems in particular polymeric micellar conjugates for cancer research. Dr. Amin has authored more than 60 publications in high impact factor journals, a number of book chapters, has five patents issued/pending and has routinely consulted in the area of drug delivery and pharmaceutical technology. He has wide expertise in biomaterials, nanomedicine, polymer chemistry, micro- and nanotargeting delivery systems as well as oral and transdermal formulations and delivery systems. Dr. Iyer is the Director of Use-inspired Biomaterials and Integrated Nano Delivery (U-BiND) Systems Laboratory and an Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He also serves as a Scientific Member of the Molecular Imaging Program (MIP) at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Dr. Iyer received his PhD in 2008, in Polymer Engineering, under the mentorship of world-renowned scientist and 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nominee, Prof. Hiroshi Maeda at Sojo University in Kumamoto, Japan. Dr. Iyer was the recipient of the Controlled Release Society’s (CRS) T. Nagai Research Achievement Award in 2012. Dr. Iyer completed his postdoctoral training in Cancer Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in California, USA. In 2018 Dr. Iyer received an Early Career Investigator Award from the US Department of Defense (DoD). Dr. Iyer has authored more than 100 publications in peer reviewed International Journals (H-index:45), and books of high repute. He has more than 200 scientific presentations and invited talks at International Conferences and Workshops. He has five patents issued/pending. His areas of research are broadly focused on designing use-inspired bio- and nano-medical technologies aimed towards clinical translation using biocompatible delivery systems that have enhanced disease targeting with reduced toxicity burden to patients. He has wide expertise in biomaterials and nanomedicine, polymer chemistry and formulation development, drug and gene delivery systems, molecular and functional imaging, micro and nanoparticles for treating diseases such as infection,cancerand age-related dementia. His laboratory is funded by agencies such as National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Defense.
