Vikash Kumar Dubey Editor

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. Vikash Kumar Dubey is a Professor at the School of Biochemical Engineering and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India. Prior to joining IIT (BHU), he was a postdoctoral fellow at Florida State University, USA before joining IIT Guwahati, India, where he served as Associate Professor and Professor. He has published over 130 articles in peer-reviewed journals and over 80 conference presentations/proceedings. He has seven awarded and licensed USA patents and many Indian patents. He has also written several book chapters and has guided a number of PhD students, MTech students, and postdoctoral fellows. He has received several awards and has been elected as a member of a number of scientific societies and academies; Among these, he is currently the Vice President of the Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery Society [BIDDS], India and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, UK.