Muzafar A. Macha is an Assistant Professor, Ramalingaswami Re-Entry Fellow, and Head of the Watson-Crick Centre for Molecular Medicine, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, Kashmir, India. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Centre (UNMC), USA, where he researched signaling pathways and therapeutic targets in head and neck and pancreatic cancers. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and received many national and international awards.