Dr. Afsar Raza Naqvi is an Associate Professor in the College of Dentistry, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, US. He started his research career at International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India as a molecular virologist. He has established his research group in the domain of oral mucosal immunology focusing on how viruses (and their derived microRNAs)-mediated mechanisms affect cell differentiation, host immune responses and alter activation status of macrophages, which are critical mediators of inflammation and resolution. Dr. Naqvi has published more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His lab research is supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded grants. Dr.
Maryam Sarwat is an Indian Citizen, working as an Associate Professor in the Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Noida. She has obtained her Ph. D. in 2007 and completed postdoctoral research at ICGEB, New Delhi. She has received several research grants from various R & D agencies such as DST, DBT, CCRUM and SERB in India. She has presented her findings in scientific conferences in various countries like Germany, Czech Republic and France etc. Dr. Sarwat has mentored six PhD and fifteen Masters' students.
She has more than 55 international publications in reputed journals and three patents to her credit. She is the recipient of the prestigious "Scientist of the Year Award" in 2015. Dr. Sarwat has published two volumes of "Stress Signaling in Plants, Genomics and Proteomics Perspective" with Springer Nature in 2013 and 2017. She has also authored two books with Elsevier entitled 'Senescence Signaling and Control in Plants' in 2018 and 'Saffron: The Age-Old Panacea in a New Light' in the early 2020. She has also published the title 'Environment and Human Health' through King Abdul Aziz University Press in 2020. Her two volumes on 'Ethnic Knowledge on Biodiversity, Nutrition and Health Security' are due for publication by Taylor and Francis in 2021. She has served various international journals as reviewer.