Dr. Dijendra Nath Roy completed his PhD from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, under the Jadavpur University of India and postdoctoral research at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. Dr. Roy started his career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the National Institute of Technology- Agartala, Tripura, India, in 2013, and presently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the National Institute of Technology - Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. He has more than 25 peer-reviewed international publications along with being engaged as principal/co-principal investigator of more than five national projects on antimicrobial resistance and drug development funded by national agencies like the Department of Science and Technology (DST, Govt. of India), Department of Biotechnology (DBT, Govt. of India), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR, Govt. of India), etc. Dr. Roy has delivered numerous invited lectures at several international meetings in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Maldives, and India. Dr. Roy has already been engaged in the guidance of five Ph.D. students in the field of antimicrobial resistance and drug development. Additionally, Dr. Roy has already contributed his enormous knowledge of antimicrobial drug resistance by publishing several artciels and two international books for academicians. Dr. Iqbal Ahmad has been a senior professor in the Department of Agricultural Microbiology at Aligarh Muslim University, India, He has more than 250 peer-reviewed international publications along with being engaged as Principal/co-principal investigator of many national/international projects on Applied and Environmental Microbiology. His research work has been cited more than 21000 times as per Google Scholar Records. He has been a visiting Professor at Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, since 2016.He has a lot of experience working on antimicrobial resistance among pathogenic bacteria from medical and environmental sources. His recent research interest in tackling the environmental AMR problem in India is supported by the Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, in collaboration with the British Government, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)/NERC. Dr. Ahmad has delivered numerous invited lectures at national/international meetings and guided more than 20 Ph.D. students in the field of environmental and Applied Microbiology. Additionally, Dr. Ahmad has already contributed his enormous microbiology and drug resistance knowledge by publishing 09 international books for academicians.
