Dr. A.K. Saxena, Chairman, GIPER, Kashipur, Ex-emeritus and Chief Scientist CDRI, Lucknow, India is actively involved in Medicinal Chemistry & Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD). He has, more than, 50 years of research experience with, >270 publications, 72 patents, >200 invited lectures, >55 sessions chaired. He has supervised >200 post graduates and 45 PhD students and has made >60 visits abroad. Dr. Saxena initiated QSAR and the concepts of CADD as early as in 1974 in India and made major contributions for its development and has founded Global Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Kashipur, India. He is the recipient of several awards, including Humboldt Fellowship, INSA Medal, Themis Chemicals UDCT, Ranbaxy Research Award, an Honorary Medal for outstanding contributions to Medicinal Chemistry and ISC, Russia and Prof. P.K. Bose Memorial Award. He is the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK, and is also the series editor for book series “TMC” published by Springer. He is the Editorial Board Member of journals MCR, SAR and QSAR, CTMC and ARKIVOC. He is member of several committees including ACS.
Prof. (Dr.) Sisir Nandi completed Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (CSIR), India and had been awarded Ph.D. in Pharmacy degree (2010) by the Jadavpur University, India. He did his Post-Doctoral research as the European Union Marie Curie fellowship in Laboratory of Chemometrics, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe. His specialization is Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Dr. Nandi is working in the area of QSAR, anti-COVID-19, anticancer, antiviral, antitubercular, antimalarial drug design, development and discovery research, biological activity prediction of lead compounds, ligand-receptor interactions, virtual screening, combinatorial library design and lead-hopping. He has published more than 125 original research articles and reviews in reputed international journals having high impact factor. He has published 8 book chapters with SpringerNature and Bentham books. He has presented his research work in many international conferences around the world. He is Editorial advisory board member of many reputed journals. He is having more than 15 years of teaching and 20 years of research experiences. He has been guiding many master’s and doctoral students. He is very competent in organizing many government funded international seminar, conferences and symposia as organizing Secretary (CPDDP-2014, CMTPI-2017; CTPMS-2020, DDDR-2021, GTHTM-2024). He has been working with government funded research projects.