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Deswal, Geeta: - Geeta Deswal is presently working as Professor (Pharmacognosy) at Guru Gobind Singh College of Pharmacy, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, India. She has obtained PhD from M.M. University, Mullana, Haryana (India). She is an expert in bioactivity-guided extraction and isolation of phytoconstituents, standardization of drugs and herbal formulations, and phytochemical screening of medicinal plants and plant tissue culture. She is also working on the formulation and evaluation of herbal products as antimicrobial agents. She has worked on HPLC, UV spectrophotometer, Soxhlet Apparatus, Clevenger Apparatus, Sonicator, Rota evaporator, and Thin Layer and Column Chromatography. She owns to her credit 30 publications in national and international journals of repute and 5 books and 10 book chapters. She received the Young Achiever Award on Occasion of Pharma Vision 2K25 by Shree Balaji Books and Innovational Ambassador by MHRD Innovational Cell, AICTE, New Delhi.
Grewal, Ajmer Singh: - Ajmer Singh Grewal is working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Guru Gobind Singh College of Pharmacy, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana (India) since Mar. 02, 2021. He had worked as Assistant Professor at the School College of Pharmacy, Chitkara University (Himachal Pradesh) from July 2019 to February 2021 and at Chitkara College of Pharmacy, Chitkara University (Punjab) from March 2017 to June 2019. Before that, he had worked as Assistant Professor at Jan Nayak Ch. Devi Lal Memorial College of Pharmacy, Sirsa (Haryana, India) from November 2011 to February 2017. He is a dedicated academic professional with experience of 11+ years committed to pharmaceutical education. He had taught B. Pharm., M. Pharm. and Pharm. D. students and supervised 08 M. Pharm. (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) students in the research area of Drug Design and Medicinal Chemistry. He is currently guiding 03 PhD students in the area of Drug Design and Discovery. He had completed PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in the subject area of Computational and Medicinal Chemistry on the project entitled "Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Newer Glucokinase Activators" from I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar (Punjab) in 2019. Earlier, He had seasoned Master of Pharmacy in Pharmaceutical Chemistry on the project entitled "Development and Validation of New Analytical Methods for Estimation of Selected Drugs in Bulk & Pharmaceutical Formulations" from the Institute of Pharmacy and Technology, Salipur, Cuttack in 2011. He had qualified for GATE-2009 (87.09 percentile). His present areas of research include rational drug design and medicinal chemistry of matrix metallo-proteinase (MMP2 and MMP9) inhibitors as anticancer agents, antibacterial drug resistance (NDM-1 inhibitors), glucokinase activators as anti-diabetic agents, aldose reductase inhibitors for diabetic complications, PPAR agonists for the treatment of metabolic syndrome, multi-potent anti-Alzheimer's agents, selective PDE-4 & PDE-7 inhibitors as anti-inflammatory agents and environmental chemistry. He owns to his credit a total of 90 publications in national and international journals of repute, 20 book chapters, 9 books, 6 patents (provisional application), 2 design patents and various poster presentations (15) at several conferences (both national and international). Currently, he is editing 7 books with Nova Science, Elsevier and IGI Global.
Srivastav, Arun Lal: - Arun Lal Srivastav works as an Associate Professor at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India. He obtained Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India. He has done post-doctoral research at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. He is currently involved in teaching Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Disaster Management, and Design Thinking to undergraduate engineering students. His research interests include Water Quality Surveillance, Climate Change, Water Treatment, River Ecosystems, Soil Health, Phytoremediation and Waste Management. He has published over 80 research papers in various prestigious journals (Elsevier, Springer Nature, IWA, Wiley, etc.), including book chapters and conference papers. He is the editor of 17 books with Elsevier, Nova, Springer, IGI Global, and Wiley.
