Mohmmad Younus Wani Author & Editor

Mohmmad Younus Wani, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Wani graduated from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India in 2013. Received a senior research fellowship from CSIR-India in 2012 and FCT postdoctoral fellowship from Portugal in 2013. Worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. A. Sobral group from 2013-2016 on the development of fungal cell wall targeted antifungal therapies. In fall 2016, Dr. Wani moved to the University of Texas, USA, Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, UTHealth on the development of non-traditional antimicrobial agents and strategies combating multi-drug resistance. He has many international publications, book chapters, and a book, besides many international and national honours and awards to his credit. Dr. Wani is working hard to advance the medicinal chemistry and drug discovery field with new questions and pertinent issues of 21st century. Aijaz Ahmad, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and Medical Scientist, Division of Infection Control, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Ahmad has specialties in Infectious Diseases, Clinical Microbiology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Microbial Pathogenesis. He has been awarded South African National Research Foundation Scientist Rating of Y2 (Promising young researchers) and he is a Lifetime fellow member of Scientific Society of Advanced Research and Social Change, a Fellow member of South African Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a Committee member of National Health Laboratory Services Research and Development Committee.