Nisha Sharma, PhD, MPharm, is presently working as Director of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur, India. With teaching experience of over 23 years, she has authored many research articles in journals and books. A popular figure in the pharmaceutical field, she has chaired many scientific sessions of national and international conferences. Dr. Sharma has served as a resource person for All India Council for Technical Education faculty development programs. Her area of research includes phytochemistry, ethnopharmacology, and herbal formulations. She is associated with many professional bodies in her field Dr. Sharma received her BPharm from J. S. S. College of Pharmacy, Mysore, India; MPharm from BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, India; and PhD from Bhagwant University, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
Deepika Saini, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology at Chamanlal Mahavidyalaya, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. She has five years of teaching experience. She was as a faculty member in the Natural Science Department of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Salisbury, Maryland, USA. She has edited four books and has published papers in national and international journals. She has presented papers at national and international seminars and conferences and also attended many workshops. She acts as a reviewer and editorial board member for more than eight international and national journals, including American Journal of Life Sciences, International Journal of Zoological Studies, International Journal of Biological Studies, among others. During the pandemic, she organized five webinars with reputed institutes, such as the Zoological Survey of lndia and Botanical Survey of India. She has organized two national conferences funded by the Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology, Dehradun and Uttarakhand Council for Biotechnology, Dehradun, India. Dr. Saini has been awarded a Best Teacher Award 2020 by the Society of Research in Biological Studies.
Rajesh K. Kesharwani, PhD, MTech, is Associate Professor, Department of Computer Application, Nehru Gram Bharati (Deemed to be University), Prayagraj, India. He has more than 11 years of research and nine years of teaching experience at various institutes of India, imparting bioinformatics and biotechnology education. He has received several awards, including the NASI-Swarna Jayanti Puruskar by the National Academy of Sciences of India. He has supervised one PhD and more than 20 undergraduate and graduate students for their research work. Dr. Kesharwani has authored over 49 peer-reviewed articles, 20 book chapters, and 14 edited books with international publishers. He has been a member of many scientific communities as well as a reviewer for many international journals. He has presented many papers at various national and international conferences. Dr. Kesharwani received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, and worked at NIT Warangal for two semesters. He has been a recipient of a Ministry of Human Resource Development (India) Fellowship and a Senior Research Fellowship from the Indian Council of Medical Research, India. His research fields of interest are medical informatics, protein structure and function prediction, computer-aided drug designing, structural biology, drug delivery, cancer biology, nanobiotechnology, and biomedical sciences.
Prakash Chandra Gupta, PhD, MPharm, is Assistant Professor in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur, India. He has more than 15 years of academic and research experience. He has published many research and review articles in reputed national and international journals. He has received various research project grants from different funding agencies. Dr. Gupta received his BPharm degree from the Department of Pharmacy, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India, and MPharm degree (Pharmacognosy) from the Institute of Pharmacy, Barkatullah University Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, and PhD degree from the Department of Pharmaceutical Science, Bhagwant University, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. His research interest includes standardization of herbal medicine, pharmacological screening, and development of herbal formulations.
Raj K. Keservani, MPharm, is Associate Professor, Faculty of B. Pharmacy, CSM Group of Institutions, Prayagraj, India. He has more than 12 years of academic (teaching) experience at various institutes of India in pharmaceutical education. He has supervised and more than 25 undergraduate students for their research work. He published over 30 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in national and international journals, one patent, many book chapters, several co-authored books, and over 20 edited books. He is also active as a reviewer for several international scientific journals. Mr. Keservani graduated with a pharmacy degree from the Department of Pharmacy, Kumaun University, Nainital (Uttarakhand), India. He received his Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) (specialization in pharmaceutics) from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, India. Mr. Keservani is a life member of Society of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (SPER). His research interests include nutraceutical and functional foods, novel drug delivery systems (NDDS), transdermal drug delivery/drug delivery, health science, cancer biology, and neurobiology.
