Editorial Board

Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman, Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Kings College, University of Cambridge (1968), has 1235 international publications in several fields of organic chemistry including 349 books published largely by major U.S. and European presses. He was elected as Fellow of Royal Society (London) (2006) and won the prestigious UNESCO Science Prize (1999). Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman was appointed Academician (Foreign Member) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015). He won the “Friendship Award of China” (2014) and was conferred the highest scientific award of China, the International Science & Technology Cooperation Award, by President Xi Jinping (2020). He was bestowed with the International Scientific Corporation Award (2014) and the “Einstein Professorship” by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (2013). He was conferred honorary D.Sc. by University of Cambridge and appointed an Honorary Life Fellow of Kings College, University of Cambridge. The Austrian government has honoured him with its highest civil award (“Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeischen am Bande") (2007). He is Professor Emeritus at University of Karachi, Pakistan.

Qian Han is currently a Full Professor in Biological Sciences (Biochemistry, Vector Biology) at the Hainan University, Haikou, China. He received a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the China Agricultural University, Beijing, China. His field of expertise/area of interest include Anopheles, Aedes, Enzyme Activity, Proteins, Enzymes, Enzymology, Protein Characterization, Protein Expression, Protein Purification, Enzyme Kinetics, Mosquitoes, Protein Crystallography, Molecular Biology, Anopheles gambiae, Veterinary Medicine, Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Protein Structure, Parasitology, PCR, Cell Culture, Aedes aegypti, Substrate Specificity, Eimeria tenella, Eimeria, Parasitic Diseases, Site-Directed Mutagenesis, Recombinant Protein Expression, Affinity Chromatography, Protein Engineering, Protein Biochemistry, Recombinant Proteins Production & Purification, Size Exclusion Chromatography, Ion Exchange Chromatography, SDS-PAGE, Protein Crystallization, Protein Chromatography, and Enzymatic Catalysis. However, Dr Han has published more than 20 research/review articles in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Manuel Aureliano is an Associate Professor (with Habilitation) of Biochemistry and he was the Director (1998-2013) of the Biochemistry degree at the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal. Till now, he also served as a supervisor and/or co-supervisor of several post-doc, PhD, MSc and undergraduate students (over 110), and has published about 90 peer-reviewed journal articles, reviews and book chapters. Dr. Aureliano is a TOP 1% reviewer for Publons and a TOP10 reviewer in Metallomics. He was the editor of the book “Vanadium Biochemistry”, ResearchSignPost, 2007, Kerala, India. His research topics include the role of decavanadate in biology; Biological effects and applications of polyoxometalates.

Prof. Yaroslav Blume is the Director of the Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics (from 2008), and Head of Department of Genomics and Molecular Biotechnology. Completed his M.S. (Biochemistry) from Kyiv State University (1978), Ph.D. (1982), and Dr. Sci. (Dr. Hab.) (1988). Full Member of the Natl. Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2006). His scientific career started from Kyiv University, then he worked in the Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering (1989-2008). He was a visiting scientist at the University of Freiburg (1997), Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa (1998), John Innes Center, Norwich (1998-2003), and Antwerpen University (2005-2006). He was an invited professor at Schiller University, Jena (2001). His research activity is aimed at cell biology, genomics of plant cytoskeleton and cell signaling as well as a development of new tools for molecular biotechnology, creation of plants with novel traits, especially for biofuel production. Prof. Blume authored and co-authored more than 290 research publications, 15 patent inventions and 9 plant varieties. State Prize of Ukraine (2011), and Prizes of Natl. Academy of Sci. (2002, 2019).

Dr. Cüneyt Çağlayan, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Veterinary Medicine Faculty in the Department of Biochemistry at Bingol University in Turkey. Çağlayan has broad interests in the area of oxidative stress, inflammation, apoptosis, autophagy, carbonic anhydrase, enzyme kinetics, and natural products. He has published more than 40 articles in reputable journals and has more than 950 citations. He is currently working as a Scientist at Bingol University, Veterinary Faculty. He is also a recipient of several awards and scholarships and has served as an invited reviewer for many reputable journals.

Dr. Mokhotjwa Simon Dhlamini is a Professor of Physics at the University of South Africa, in South Africa. His main research interests include the development of novel materials for various technological applications and the world’s drive to transition to sustainable energy systems, effective medical treatment and other advanced technologies. His research requires new smart materials with special properties and new novel materials which can be produced to make renewable energy and medical technologies more efficient. Currently he is working on the development of various materials for application in renewable energy, biological imaging and lighting technologies.

Dr. Ali Farajtabar is currently an associate professor at Islamic Azad University of Mazandaran. He received his PhD in physical chemistry from Shahid Beheshti University (2008) at the age of 29 years. His research interests mainly focus on solvent effect, solvatochromism, preferential solvation and study on thermodynamic of chemical equilibria in different media. He has completed several research projects and published more than 80 papers in reputed journals.

Zhongjie Liang is currently working as an Associate Professor, Center for Systems Biology, Soochow University, China. He obtained Doctor of Science, Drug Design and Discovery Center, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research interests include Computational Biology (Molecular modeling, Molecular dynamics simulations, Elastic network model, Protein structure network model, Structural systems biology) and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Structure-based drug design). He has published several scientific papers in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Marwa Matboli serves as an Assistant Professor in the Medical Biochemistry Department and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University. She is also the head of biochemistry department, Faculty of Medicine, at the Modern university for technology and information,Cairo, Egypt from 2019 till present. She has more than 47 international publications in pubmed cited journals and shares as principal investigator and CO-PI for more than 12 funded scientific projects. She has collaborated in molecular research with many institutes e.g. Zweil institute and Medical Ain Shams Research center.

Dr.Stéphane P. Roche was born in Thiers (France) in 1979. He received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the Blaise Pascal University under the supervision of Professor D. J. Aitken. Afterwards, he joined the group of Professor K. C. Nicolaou at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES, @Star) in Singapore to work on the total synthesis of haplophytine (2006-2008). As a second Postdoctoral position, Stéphane worked with Professor John Porco Jr. at Boston University on the synthesis of rocaglates (2008-2011). He started his independent career at Florida Atlantic University and his research interests include the development of novel synthetic methodologies and ‘bio-inspired’ dearomatization strategies for the synthesis of unnatural a-amino acids, peptides and peptidomimetics, and biologically active natural products.

Dr. Bechan Sharma is presently working as a Professor and an Ex-Head, Department of Biochemistry, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India. He has received his B.Sc.(Honours)-1980; M.Sc. (Biochemistry)-1982 and Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1988) from BHU-Varanasi. His research interests include Molecular Biology of HIV/AIDS, Tropical Diseases (Filariasis/Malaria), Drug design and development and Biochemical Toxicology. Dr. Sharma has published over 230 research papers including book chapters, molecular methods in peer reviewed International and National Journals. He is on the editorial board of over 130 peer reviewed International and National Journals. He has been acting as honorary reviewer for over 150 International/National scientific journals. He has worked as a visiting scientist in the USA, Italy, France, Iran, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Germany and Brazil to conduct different collaborative research projects related to Molecular Virology and Drug resistance.

Dr. J.C Tu is a Professor and a Program Chairman at the Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, China. His research interests include: (1) molecular mechanism and diagnosis of tumor, especially in liver and lung cancer (2) functional role of Homer and its family members in cardiovascular and cancer related diseases. He has published more than 180 articles in reputed journals with more than 6000 citations. He has also participated in writing and publishing more than 30 book chapters, mostly textbooks for graduate/undergraduate students of either clinical laboratory medicine or clinical medicine. He has served as an invited reviewer for a few reputed journals.

Dr Wei Cao has been appointed as the Associate Professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine since 2017. His training fellowship of Head & Neck Oncology was completed in 2015 from Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital. He joined the Editorial Board of ‘Frontiers in Oncology’ in January 2020 and was appointed as the Guest Associate Editor for managing the research topic "Non-coding RNAs in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Functional and Clinical Implications". Up till now, he has published 38 original articles including, ‘Cancer, EMBO J, Molecular Cancer, Bioinformatics, Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids, Cancer Prevention Research, Oral Oncology, Head & Neck.’ He hosted 3 projects from the Natural Science Foundation of China. His research interest includes Head and Neck Oncology, Epigenetic and genetic whole studies, Classifier for early detection, predict lymph node metastasis and survival.

Dr Chukwuma has a Ph.D., M.Sc, and B.Sc. (Hon) in Biochemistry from University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa. He has 4 years of postdoctoral research experience in medicinal plant and functional food research. He has published more than 32 articles in reputable journals and has more than 220 citations. He is also a recipient of several awards and scholarships and has served as an invited reviewer for many reputable journals and several competitive grants. He is currently a researcher and MSc/PhD project supervisor at the Central University of Technology, South Africa and a registered scientist of the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions.

Prof. Tamer Ezzat is a full professor at the Department of Chemistry- College of Science- Imam Abdulrhaman Bin Faisal University (IAU) – Saudi Arabia (Dammam). He is presently serving as a Chairman of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Unit - Basic and Applied Scientific Research Center –Saudi Arabia (Dammam). He received his Ph.D. degree (Dr.rer.nat) in materials science from Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany in 2005. He worked at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany as a visiting assistant professor in 2007-2011, at the King Abdulaziz University (KAU) through attracting distinguished academics track till became a full professor in 2017.

Dr. He-Zhong Jiang obtained his Ph. D. degree in 2011 from the State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a member of Chinese Chemical Society, and an Associate Professor at the School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University (China). Dr. Jiang has experience in the area of Chemistry of Natural Products, Phytochemistry, and Effective Substances of Traditional Chinese Medicine, working mainly in: Medicinal plants, New Research Drugs, Effective Substances of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ethnodrug.

He completed his Master's Degree in Biotechnology from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Thereafter he started working in genetic engineering at Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India. Thereafter, he went on to acquire his Doctor of Philosophy from School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in drug discovery and cell biology. Currently, he is working as a Scientist at the National Institute of Pathology New Delhi. He has published many articles in peer-reviewed international journals, presented several conference papers on the above field.

Dr. K. Ramanathan, Ph.D., is a Professor at the School of Bio Sciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, India. Ramanathan received ICMR International Fellowship award for the Young Biomedical Scientist for the year 2018-19 and successfully completed his fellowship training at Purdue University, USA. Ramanathan has broad interests in the area of Machine Learning, Cancer precision medicine and drug resistance analysis. Ramanathan has more than 15 years of research experience in molecular simulation study and drug resistance analysis and has authored/co-authored more than 110 papers in these areas.

Dr. Lidong Wu received his PhD (2012) in Analytical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, and then worked at Chinese Academy of Fishery Science (2012). He worked at Marine Institute of Ireland, Ireland as a Visiting scholar (2013-2014) and Chemistry Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a visiting research scholar (2016- 2018). He was selected in the One-hundred Talent Program of Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (2013). His current research interests mainly focus on analytical and environmental chemistry, and their applications in aquaculture environment and food safety. The recent research interests include: sample preparation and pretreatment; development of analysis and detection technology such as RFID based sensors, FET based biosensors, non-aqueous enzyme based sensors and analytical nanomaterials for rapid screening and detection of environmental pollutants, biomolecules, etc.