Pankaj V. Dangre, PhD, is Associate Professor and Vice-Dean (Research), Department of Pharmaceutics, Datta Meghe College of Pharmacy, Maharashtra, India. He was formerly Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics at the R. C. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research at North Maharashtra University, Nagpur, India. He taught modern pharmaceutics and novel drug delivery systems at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has mentored students in research projects. His interests include drug delivery, formulation development, and nutraceutical innovations. He has published research papers on bioavailability enhancement and controlled-release formulations along with book chapters and laboratory manuals on basic pharmaceutical formulations and physical pharmaceutics. Debarshi Kar Mahapatra, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Dadasaheb Balpande College of Pharmacy at RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, India. He has taught medicinal chemistry and computational chemistry at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has mentored students in research projects. He has published research papers, review articles, and imperative case studies in various reputed international journals and has presented his original contributions at several international platforms, for which he received several awards by scientific and professional bodies. He has contributed to edited books, syllabus-based textbooks, lab manuals, book chapters, magazine articles, and guidebooks on pharmaceutical chemistry, natural products, pharmacology, and pharmaceutics. Presently, he is as an active reviewer and serves as an editorial board member for several journals of national and international repute. He is an active member of a number of professional and international scientific societies.
