Dr. Siddique is a Senior Assistant Professor at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India, where he serves as Programme Director of the Molecular Cancer Genetics and Translational Research programme. He obtained his PhD in 2008 from the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, India, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota, and the University of Southern California, USA.His research focuses on cancer biology, pharmacology, toxicology, molecular cancer genetics, and translational research. He has published more than 75 original research papers in leading journals, including Nature Communications, Hepatology, Clinical Cancer Research, Cancer Research, and Seminars in Cancer Biology. He has received several awards, including the SBUR Young Scientist Travel Award, IABS Outstanding Cancer Research Award, and SPER Innovative Researcher Award. He has filed four patents, serves on editorial boards, reviews for international journals, and is supported by multiple Indian government funding agencies.Dr. Maryam Sarwat is an Indian Citizen, working as an Associate Professor in the Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Noida. She has obtained her Ph. D. in 2007 and completed postdoctoral research at ICGEB, New Delhi. She has received several research grants from various R & D agencies such as DST, DBT, CCRUM and SERB in India. She has presented her findings in scientific conferences in various countries like Germany, Czech Republic and France etc. Dr. Sarwat has mentored six PhD and fifteen Masters’ students. She has more than 55 international publications in reputed journals and three patents to her credit. She is the recipient of the prestigious “Scientist of the Year Award in 2015. Dr. Sarwat has published two volumes of “Stress Signaling in Plants, Genomics and Proteomics Perspective with Springer Nature in 2013 and 2017. She has also authored two books with Elsevier entitled ‘Senescence Signaling and Control in Plants’ in 2018 and ‘Saffron: The Age-Old Panacea in a New Light’ in the early 2020. She has also published the title ‘Environment and Human Health’ through King Abdul Aziz University Press in 2020. Her two volumes on ‘Ethnic Knowledge on Biodiversity, Nutrition and Health Security’ are due for publication by Taylor and Francis in 2021. She has served various international journals as reviewer
