Dr. Awanish Kumar is working in the area of infection biology, drug targeting, and drug discovery. He has more than 15 years of research experience after Ph.D. He has graduated in molecular parasitology from CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute-Lucknow, India and Jawaharlal Nehru University-Delhi, India. He has done post-doctoral study from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Kumar has served various national and international organizations with different academic/research capacities. With h-index-36, he has published 212 paper in SCI journals with 4206 citations. He is the author of several monographs/books/chapters. Presently he is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Raipur (CG), India and contributing actively to academics and research. Currently, he is serving many national committees, scientific societies and advisory panels. He is the member of many international professional research societies and a reviewer/editorial board member of reputed and refereed journals.