Dr Sushama Talegaonkar is working as Associate Professor in Department of Pharmaceutics, Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University New Delhi. Her current research interests include development of wide variety of smart and functionalized nano drug delivery systems for various biomedical applications specially for targeted drug delivery in cancer and autoimmune disorders She has published more than 240 research papers in high impact factor International and National journals. She has co-authored eight books and authored 15 chapters in International reference books.. She has travelled to Canada, United Kingdom and Singapore to present her research papers. Dr Talegaonkar has been granted two Indian Patent and her 2 applications for Indian patents are under consideration.
Mahendra Rai is a Senior Professor and UGC- Basic Science Research Faculty Fellow at the Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University at Amravati, Maharashtra, India. He was a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Bioenergetics, University of Geneva, Switzerland and at the Department of Plant Protection of Debrecen University, Debrecen, Hungary . He visited Department of Chemical Biology, University of Campinas, Brazil under Indo-Brazil Research Programme (DST-CNPq collaboration). He was visiting Professor in Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. and visiting scientist in State University of Campinas, Brazil. He was also visiting professor in Ostrava, Czech Republic and in National University of Rosario, Argentina. His area of expertise includes microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology. His present research interest include application of nanobiotechnology in medicine with particular reference to the development of nanoantimicrobials. He has published more than 400 research papers in national and international journals. In addition, he has edited/authored more than 50 books and6 patents.