Prof. Sunita Mishra is presently Vice Chancellor of the Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Prof. Mishra has more than 30 years of teaching, research, and administrative experience from different institutions in India and abroad. Prof. Mishra had been Dean and Head of the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India. Prof. Mishra has international academic exposures from the USA, the Netherlands, Kosovo, Thailand, Indonesia, and Oman. She has published more than 500 papers in the forms of research papers, review articles, book chapters, conference papers, etc. amounting to 4000+ total citations and h-index of 32. She has also two patents in her name. She has successfully completed many research grants from different funding agencies in India. She has also mentored a hundred students for their Master Thesis, MPhil Thesis, and PhD Research work.Dr. G Bhanuprakash Reddy is a Scientist-G at the National Institute of Nutrition and heading the Biochemistry Department. He obtained his MSc and PhD in Biochemistry from Osmania University. He conducted post-doctoral research at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Case Western University, USA. He was a Visiting Scientist at the University of Michigan and at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. His research focuses on various aspects molecular nutrition and non-communicable diseases including nutrient requirements, nutrient deficiency assessment, with particular emphasis on micronutrient deficiencies, proteostasis, non‑enzymatic protein glycation, and novel bioactive molecules derived from functional foods. He has published over 270 papers with an h-index of 58 and more than 11,000 citations and mentored 30 PhD students, 20 MSc theses, and more than 100 interns/trainees. He received numerous awards, including the ICMR-Basanti Devi Award, Scopus India Young Scientist Award, and RPB-International Scholars Award, ICMR-Dr. V. N. Patwardhan Prize. He holds fellowships in multiple national and international academies: International Union of Nutritional Sciences, National Academy of Medical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Telangana Academy of Sciences.Dr. Tikam Chand Dakal is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Department of Biotechnology, Mohanlal Sukhadia University (Rajasthan), India. Dr. Dakal pursued his PhD from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) and did post-doctoral training from University of Montreal (Canada) and University of Bordeaux (France). Dr. Dakal has also worked as a Staff Scientist at Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, California (USA). Dr. Dakal has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience. Currently, Dr. Dakal is working in the field of Genome and Computational Biology with a focus on analysing the biological/clinical/gut metagenomic data for deciphering the molecular basis of complex pathologies, for instance, cancers, neurodegenerative disorders and others. Dr. Dakal has published over 100 research/review articles in reputed journals (citations more than 4200; h-index 24). Dr. Dakal has also edited 3 book and published some book chapters in books from house of reputed publishers. Dr. Dakal has been listed among the Top 2% Scientists of the world by Stanford University, for past 3 years. Dr. Dakal is recipient of prestigious HMR Foundation Fellowship at University of Montreal (Canada) and FEMS-Young Scientist Award by VAAM, Germany. Dr. Dakal has also been conferred with the talented young scientist, best teacher, best researcher and best academician award from different scientific societies. At present, Dr. Dakal is also holding the position of the State Vice-President of the Microbiologists Society of India. Dr. Dakal is also editorial/review board member of several reputed journals such as Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Oncology Letters, Journal of International Medical Research, Hayati Journal of Biosciences, Genomics and Proteomics, Nanomedicine and Nanoscience Research, IET Nanobiotechnology, Asian Biomedicine, Gene, just to name a few.
