Shamsher S Kanwar is Professor of Biotechnology and Director of IPRCC at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India. His research is in the fields of microbiology, immunology/ cell culture and fermentation, with an emphasis on developing bio-products and bio-processes, for a variety of extracellular microbial enzymes as an alternative to traditional antibiotics & antilipolytic drugs. Currently Dr. Kanwar has been developing anticancer therapeutics by exploring the use of microbial ribonuclease, cholesterol oxidase and L-methionase.