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Atanu Bhattacharjee Author & Editor

Dr. Atanu Bhattacharjee, M.Pharma, Ph.D. is currently working as Associate Professor in Faculty of Pharmaceutical science, Assam Down Town University, Assam, India. His area of specialization includes Pharmacognosy & Phytochemistry. Dr. Bhattacharjee holds a master’s degree in Pharmacognosy from J.S.S. College of Pharmacy, Ooty India. He was the recipient of Senior Research Fellow (CCRAS, New Delhi). He has obtained his Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Nitte University, Mangalore (NAAC ‘A’ graded University) in 2015 in the area of phytochemistry and neuropharmacology of traditional Indian medicinal plant. He worked extensively on evaluation of nootropic potential of Ayurvedic plant with emphasizing their effect on cholinergic neurotransmission. His research contribution includes assessment of several in-vivo neuro-pharmacological assay and in-vitro cholinesterase enzyme, antioxidant potential of drugs obtained from natural sources. He is the Honorable Academic Editor of Asian Journal of Medicine and Health, SCIENCEDOMAIN International, India. He is also the Associate Editor of MedCrave Online Journal of Tumor Research. Recently he has been elected as Editorial Board member of Integrative Trauma and Emergency Medicine. He is registered Ph.D guide of Assam down town University. More than 20 research and review articles in reputed national/international journals were added to his credit. He has authored many book chapters in various reputed International Publishers Taylor & Francis and Springer, USA. He presented several scientific papers, attended a number of national and international conferences and delivered invitee lecture in different scientific forums. He is a life time member of Indian Pharmaceutical Association, Mumbai, India. At present, he is Editorial team member of 07 and reviewer of more than 10 highly reputed International Journals. He is involved enthusiastically in scientific research on traditional medharasayana drugs and to develop active research culture.

Dr. Ramakrishna Akula is currently a scientist at Bayer Crop Science, Bangalore, India. Dr. Ramakrishna holds a master's degree from Sri Krishna Devaraya University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry from University of Mysore, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysuru. He is a Senior Research Fellow of CSIR, New Delhi. He is involved in various research fields such as Plant Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Plant secondary metabolites, Food Science and Technology and Vegetable quality analytics. He has published several research papers in the leading international journals, published 3 books, reviews and book chapters. He is also serving as editorial board member, and reviewer for reputed international journals. Presented over 20 research papers in symposia in India and abroad, as well as few invited lectures in India. He attended the Fifth International Symposium on Plant Neurobiology held in 2009 in Florence, Italy. He also attended the Technical Community of Monsanto (TCM) held in 2016, in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a member of the Indian science congress association and society for biotechnologists (India). He is a fellow of the Society for Applied Biotechnology, India (2012), and recipient of Global Vegetable Research Excellence Award (2017), Global technology recognition, Rapid Recognition Award, and Special recognition from the Monsanto company.

Obulesu Magisetty is currently a scientist at ATG Laboratories, Pune, India. He has 18 years of research and teaching experience. His research areas are multifarious which include food science, pathology of Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and designing polymer based Biomaterials (Design of hydrogels etc.). He did Alzheimer’s disease research and developed an aluminium induced neurotoxicity rabbit model. His present research focuses on development of redox-active injectable hydrogels of polyion complex. His research area also includes development of metal chelators to overcome metal induced toxicity. His books, a monograph entitled "Alzheimer’s Disease Theranostics (Elsevier (First Edition))" and an editorial collection "Alternative Medicine for Alzheimer’s Disease (Taylor and Francis)" are in progress currently (Proposals accepted and Work in Progress). He is the first and corresponding author for majority of his articles. He secured a certificate from Stanford University for the Scientific Writing course. He is on editorial board of a few pathology journals such as Journal of Medical Laboratory and Diagnosis, Journal of Medical and Surgical Pathology, Annals of Retrovirals and Antiretrovirals, Kenkyu Journal of Medical Science and Clinical Research, SciFed Oncology and Cancer Research Journal, Journal of Cancer and Cure. He is also on editorial board of nanotechnology journals such as SciFed Nanotech Research Letters, SciFed Drug Delivery Research, Current Updates in Nanotechnology and Journal of Nanotechnology and Materials Science.