Santhanam Ramesh, PhD, is Vice-Principal at the Karuna College of Pharmacy, Kerala University of Health Sciences, Palakkad, Kerala, India. He has 15 years of teaching and research experience in pharmaceutical sciences, and his fields of specialization include natural products, pharmaceutical nanotechnology, biomaterials, and marine wastes of pharmaceutical importance. Dr. Ramesh is also a visiting professor in the Department of Pharmacology, North-Caucasian State Humanitarian and Technological Academy (North-Caucasian State University), Cherkessk, Russia. To his credit, he has 13 books published with internationally reputed publishers. He is a member of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome Research, the British Society for Nanomedicine, and the Academic Pharmacy Group of Royal Pharmaceutical Society, London. He earned his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India. Ramasamy Santhanam, PhD, is Ex-Dean, Fisheries College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Thoothukudi, India.
He has about 50 years of teaching and research experience in marine/ fisheries sciences. He has been serving as a fisheries expert for various government and nongovernment organizations in India and abroad. To his credit, Dr. Santhanam has 40 books on various aspects of marine life. He was a member of the American Fisheries Society, United States; World Aquaculture Society, United States; Global Fisheries Ecosystem Management Network (GFEMN), United States; and the IUCN's Commission on Ecosystem Management, Switzerland. Subbiah Balasundari, PhD, is Dean at the Dr. M.G.
R. Fisheries College and Research Institute at the Tamil Nadu Dr. J. Jayalalithaa Fisheries University, Thalainayeru, India. She has 26 years of teaching and research experience in fish processing. To her credit, she has four textbooks on fisheries science and 20 research papers. She has developed a number of contemporary value-added fish products and has disseminated the technologies to fish processing industries of India. She has completed six projects through state- and national-level funding agencies and has established various demonstration units in fisheries enterprises for the benefit of stakeholders.
She is a member of the World Aquaculture Society, Asian Fisheries Society (Indian Branch), Agricultural Scientific Tamil Society, and Society of Fisheries Technologists.