Navneet Sharma Author & Editor

Dr. Navneet Sharma is currently a scientist at IIT Delhi on the universal formulation for the CBRN decontamination of skin. The first quarter of the previous year motivated him to direct his focus towards developing solutions for viral decontamination from living and inanimate surfaces. He was among 4 eminent scientists from the country who got the fast track Covid-19 decontamination project from Department of Sciences and Technology (DST). In his brief research carrier of 5 years, he had acclaimed 7 national and international awards most prominent among them is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India Covid-19 best innovation award 2020 and Department of Science and Technology, Young Scientist Award-2018. Currently he is an investigator in three projects from DST, filed and granted 10 national patents, and has had 4 technologies successfully transferred to the industry. He’s co-authored 45 publications including 5 book chapters, authored two books for Director General Life Sciences DRDO and edited 2 books. Dr. Himanshu Ojha has a BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. in Chemistry Honors from University of Delhi. His Ph.D. work involved the design, synthesis and biological evaluation of s-triazine derivatives for antimalarial activity against Plasmodium falciparum. He is now a senior scientist in Division of CBRN Defence of Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences.He had extensively worked on DFT studies of bimolecular interactions and reaction pathways. He has designed quite large number of new drug like compounds for various applications using virtual computational algorithms, QSAR and molecular docking. He has worked extensively in the field of 2D and 3D Quantitative structure activity relation (QSAR) studies to identify lead compounds for various particular applications. He has 29 research articles in various peer reviewed international journals, one book chapter and edited one book and 03 intellectual property rights. Dr. Pawan Kumar Raghav completed his MSc in Bioinformatics (2008) from Punjabi University Patiala, India; PG Diploma in Chemoinformatics (2009) from Jamia Hamdard; MPhil in Bioinformatics (2010) from The Global Open University, Nagaland; and PhD at the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), DRDO, Delhi in Life Sciences from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. During his Ph.D., he had designed molecules and evaluated their applications through response modification that regulates stem cells proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. His recent research activities are in the field of machine learning, deep learning, and molecular biology, as well as in the development of new scoring function parameterizations for use in docking, simulations, and complex network analysis. Currently, he is working as Scientist ‘D’ in Stem Cell Facility, AIIMS on stem cell informatics to establish a bridge between the experimental science and computational biology. Prof. Ramesh K. Goyal, the Vice Chancellor, Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University (DPSRU) has been the Vice-Chancellor of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Executive Director (Research & strategies) at V ClinBio Labs., Chennai, Director (Pharmacology) at NMIMS University, Mumbai; Director ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga, Punjab and Professor at L. M. College of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad. He has over 41 years of experience in Teaching and Research. Dr Goyal has three patents, 18 books, over 325 full papers articles and book chapters, over 500 abstracts published in National and International journals. He is the recipient of 72 awards, including Best Pharmacy Teacher and Best Pharmaceutical Research Scientist from APTI and Life Time Achievement & Distinguished Service Awards from International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences, Canada (IACS). He is the Fellow of eight professional bodies and is currently Council member of the IACS, Canada and the Vice President of IACS, (India Chapter).