Prakash Saudagar Editor

Dr. Prakash Saudagar is an active researcher and a sterling classroom teacher, currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, National Institute of Technology Warangal, India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India, in 2013. His research has immensely contributed to exploring potential drug target proteins and inhibitors. His research interests include molecular and biochemical parasitology, infectious disease, and protein biochemistry. He has a strong command over computational techniques and in-vitro techniques used to study proteins. He has published more than 40 research articles in reputed journals like the International Journal of Biological Molecules, FEBS, FEBS OpenBio, PLOS one, Scientific Reports, Biological Chemistry, Parasitology International, Molecular Simulation, etc., and book chapters in Elsevier and Springer to his name. He has been PI/Co-PI in research grants from SERB and DST. He has been awarded the B.S. Narasinga Rao award SBC, India (2011), Best presentation award, ICIDN, Nepal (2015), Young Faculty Award, VIF India (2016), and Young Scientist Award, Telangana Academy of Science (2018). He is an associate fellow of the Telangana Academy of Science (2018) and a life member of the Indian Science Congress and Society of Biological Chemists. He has guided several Ph.D. and M.Tech. students, postdoctoral fellows, project fellows, and trainees. He has many interdisciplinary collaborating partners in prestigious institutions in India and abroad. Timir Tripathi is the Regional Director of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Regional Centre Kohima, Nagaland, India. Earlier, he served as Senior Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator at the Department of Biochemistry, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. He holds a Ph.D. from the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India. He was a visiting faculty at ICGEB, New Delhi, India (2011), and Khon Kaen University, Thailand (2015). He is known for his research in the fields of protein biophysics, biochemistry, structural biology, and drug discovery. He has over 16 years of experience in teaching and research on protein structure, function, and dynamics at the post-graduate and doctoral levels. He has developed and improved methods to investigate and analyze proteins. His research areas include protein interaction dynamics and understanding the roles of non-catalytic domains in regulating the catalytic activity of proteins. The common theme in his research is an interest in understanding biological phenomena involving proteins at the molecular, structural, and mechanistic levels. He has handled several research grants as a principal investigator from various national and international funding agencies, including DST-Russian Foundation for Basic Research, UGC-Israel Science Foundation, DBT, SERB, DHR, and ICMR. He has received several awards, including Prof. B.K. Bachhawat Memorial Young Scientist Lecture Award (2020) by the National Academy of Sciences, India, ISCB-Young Scientist Award (2019), ICMR-Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize (2018), BRSI-Malviya Memorial Award (2017), DST Fasttrack Young Scientist Award (2012), DBT Overseas Associateship Award (2012), Dr. D.M. Bose Award (2008), etc. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, India, and the Royal Society of Biology, UK. He has published more than 100 research papers, reviews, commentaries, viewpoints, and editorial articles in international journals, has edited three books, and published several book chapters. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, including International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Acta Tropica, Scientific Reports, PLoS One, etc.