Current Indian Science is an open access journal and it publishes original research articles, letters, case reports, reviews/mini-reviews, editorials, commentaries, perspectives, letters to the editor, and guest-edited thematic issues in various disciplines focused largely on science in India. Contributions from abroad are also welcome. Current Indian Science is not limited to a specific field but instead covers all major fields of science, technology, information technology, agricultural sciences, earth sciences, and medicine.

Imran Ali
Department of Chemistry
Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University)
New Delhi
India
Biography
Biography of Imran Ali
Prof. Imran Ali, PhD; C Chem; FRSC, London (UK); Brand Ambassador of Bentham Science Publisher; is working as Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, New Delhi, India. He has a high scientific profile and an excellent international reputation. His primary research goals are multidisciplinary in nature with the main emphasis on the simple and chiral separation of drugs, pharmaceuticals and xenobiotics in biological and environmental samples using chromatography and capillary electrophoresis. He is also working on the development of chiral and anticancer drugs. Additionally, his interest is also in water treatment by nanomaterials using adsorption and photodegradation techniques. He has papers in high impact factors Journals like Nature Protocol, Chemical Reviews (Impact factor 52) etc. He has a high citation of about 25,000 with 75 as h-index and 240 as i10-index.

Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay
Sister Nivedita University
Kolkata
India
Biography
Biography of Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay
Prof. (Dr.) Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay is currently the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata from January 2020 onwards and was the Founder Vice Chancellor of Amity University Kolkata from 2015-2019. Prof. Chattopadhyay was the Dean, Faculty of Science at the University of Calcutta from 2003 to 2007. He served as the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta from 2008 to 2015. He was also the Director of the Centre for Research in Nano Science and Nano Technology at the University from 2007 to 2015. Prof. Chattopadhyay started his career as a Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Jogamaya Devi College Calcutta, from 1981 to 1983 after that he joined as a Lecturer in the Department of Bio-Chemistry, University of Calcutta in 1983. In 1997, he became the Guha Professor at Dr. B.C. Guha Centre for Genetic Engineering Biotechnology in the department of Bio-chemistry, University of Calcutta. He graduated as a Bachelor in Science from the Presidency College, Kolkata with a major in Chemistry. Prof. Chattopadhyay did his Masters in Science in Bio-Chemistry and completed his PhD from Bose Institute Calcutta, Department of Bio-Chemistry at Bose Institute, Calcutta. Prof. Chattopadhyay has a research experience of more than 37 years. During his research career he had visited numerous places in India and abroad. He is also the recipient of numerous awards, accolades and distinctions which includes The Young Scientist award in 1989, Professor Umakant Sinha Memorial Award in 1992, Fellow of the National Academy of Science in 1998. Dr. Chattopadhyay has lifetime memberships in various Organistions and Scientific Associations like Indian Science Congress Association, member of the Asiatic Society, member of Biotechnology Society, and so on. Besides, he has a teaching experience of more than 40 years and 35 students have obtained their PhD under his direct and joint supervision during their PhD programme. He has around 131 research papers and 9 book chapters to his credit till date. Prof. (Dr.) Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay is a scientist and academic par excellence. He has an established track record of highly innovative ideas and in-depth research activities.

Arabinda Chaudhuri
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
Kolkata
India
Biography
Biography of Arabinda Chaudhuri
Arabinda Chaudhuri received his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA and pursued his post-doctoral research in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, USA. Thereafter, Dr. Chaudhuri began his independent research career at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad in 1994.Dr. Chaudhuri's contributions in liposomal drug and gene delivery systems have appeared in journals of international repute including Biomaterials, J. Med. Chem. J. Am. Chem. Soc., Nanoscale, J. Control Release, Biomaterials Science, Chem. Soc. Rev., Molecular Therapy, Bioconjugate Chem., Chem. Eur. J., etc. In addition, he is a co-inventor of 12 approved US Patents. Till date, Dr. Chaudhuri has supervised PhD thesis research of 28 students, many of whom are now established as scientists in India and abroad. Dr. Chaudhuri has delivered numerous invited lectures in India and abroad. He is an Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and an Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry. He is the recipient of 2007 Ranbaxy Research Award in Pharmaceutical Sciences and 2018 Professor J. N. Mukherjee Memorial Award from Indian Chemical Society. Dr. Chaudhuri is an Editorial Board Member of Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carriers Systems and an Editorial Advisory Board Member of Biomaterials Science-A Royal Society of Chemistry Journal. After superannuating from CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad in 2018, Dr. Chaudhuri is currently working as an ICMR Emeritus Scientist at IISER Kolkata.

Vinod Gaur
CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute
Bengaluru
India
Biography
Biography of Vinod Gaur
Dr. Vinod Gaur did master's in geophysics from Banaras Hindu University in 1955. Dr. Gaur completed his PhD from the Imperial College, London, on a scholarship. He has been an Earth Scientist for more than six decades and an administrator and educator. In philosophy, he has an affinity for the fairness of Kant's categorical imperative and the unifying tendencies of Shankara's advaita. Dr. Gaur has proved what is now called the host rock effect. Dr. Gaur joined Roorkee University (now IIT Roorkee), at a position equivalent to Associate Professor of Geophysics. He then become Dean of Research. In 1983, Dr. Gaur was offered the directorship of the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) - without his having applied for the position - with a mandate to shake things up. Somewhat grudgingly, he left his students and the mountains and went to Hyderabad. In 1989, Gaur moved to Delhi and joined as Secretary to the Government of India. After three years in Delhi, Gaur joined the newly started CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS) in Bangalore. An important new project he took up and used the fact that GPS accuracy had improved to the point where it could reliably measure the relative motion of tectonic plates. In 1989, Gaur took charge of the Department of Ocean Development. In Bangalore, Gaur was also associated with the Indian Institute for Astrophysics. In addition to overseeing the installation of telescopes at Hanle in Ladakh. Dr. Gaur's work has been pioneering for both applications in the Indian context, first in terms of measurements - GPS, broadband seismic data - and then in terms of how they are analysed and modelled. As Honorary Scientist at CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute (formerly C-MMACS), Dr. Gaur continues to work with students and give talks.

Nirmalya Ghosh
Department of Physical Sciences
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Kolkata
India
Biography
Biography of Nirmalya Ghosh
Nirmalya Ghosh is a physicist with specialization in optical physics and photonics. He received his PhD degree from Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), a Department of atomic energy unit, India, where he had also held the position of Scientist during 1998 - 2007. Subsequently, he conducted his postdoctoral research at University of Toronto, Canada. He then joined Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India in 2010 and is currently Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences and Centre of Excellence in Space sciences India (CESSI), IISER Kolkata. At IISER Kolkata, Prof. Ghosh developed and runs bio-optics & Nano-photonics (bioNap), an optics and photonics research laboratory with a particular focus of research on spin polarization optics, nano-optics and biophotonics. Prof. Ghosh has made several important contributions in the forefront areas of spin (polarization) optics, weak measurements, plasmonics and biophotonics. He has received the G. G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization 2021 given by SPIE. He is also a Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences. He has authored over hundred papers in peer-reviewed international journals, which have received over five thousand citations with an h-index of thirty-eight. He has also written several invited reviews, book chapters and a text book in the area of optics and photonics. He has served as editorial board member of a number of international journals including Scientific Reports, Current Nanomaterials etc.

Chhitar Gupta
Institute of Bioinformatics & Applied Biotechnology
Bengaluru,
India
Biography
Biography of Chhitar Gupta
Dr. C.M. Gupta, who is currently working at the Institute of Bioinformatics & Applied Biotechnology, Bengaluru, as Distinguished Professor (Hon.) & Infosys Chair, is a trained Medicinal Chemist and Membrane/Molecular Biologist. Dr. Gupta has published about 150 original research papers and review articles spanning different areas of Chemistry and Biology as wide as drug design, phospholipid and peptide synthesis, immunomodulation, drug targeting, mechanisms of maintenance of transbilayer phospholipid asymmetry in biological membranes, and structure and functions of actin cytoskeleton in Leishmania parasites, and awarded five patents. Prior to joining IBAB, he served as the Director first at the Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR), Chandigarh for five years and then at the Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR), Lucknow for more than ten years. After his superannuation from CSIR services, he continued his research activities at CDRI, Lucknow until August, 2014 first as Distinguished Biotechnologist and then as Distinguished Biotechnology Research Professor in the Department of Biotechnology (Govt. of India). Dr. Gupta has been the recipient of a large number of honors and awards including highest scientific recognition in India, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, and is a fellow of several academies, including Third World Academy of Sciences and Indian National Science Academy. Besides this, he has served as a member/chairman on several (>60) important national and international committees.

Abhaya Indrayan
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Delhi,
India
Biography
Biography of Abhaya Indrayan
Abhaya Indrayan is the Former Professor and Head of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Delhi University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi MS and PhD from the Ohio State University with a GPA of 3.88/4.00. Only Biostatistician in the country to be elected as the Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, besides several other fellowships of learned academies/societies. More than 250 publications including 5 books - three of which published in The U.S. Delivered talks in 17 international conferences. Conducted 34 projects for WHO, World Bank and UNAIDS. Have been a Visiting Faculty at the Ohio State and a Visiting Research Scientist at the University of Massachusetts in the U.S.

Ashok Jhunjhunwala
IIT Madras
Madras
India
Biography
Biography of Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, is the Institute Professor at the IIT Madras, President, IITM Research Park, IITM Incubation Cell and RTBI. He did his B.Tech degree from IIT Kanpur and MS and PhD from University of Maine, USA and was a faculty at Washington State University, USA for a year and half before joining as a faculty at IIT Madras in 1981. Prof. Jhunjhunwala is considered a pioneer in nurturing Industry-Academia interaction in India towards R&D, Innovation and Product Development. He conceived and built India’s first university affiliated business park (IIT Madras Research Park) to promote Industry-Academia R&D collaboration. TIE conferred him the title of Dronacharya for his contributions to the cause of entrepreneurship, as he incubated and nurtured more than 240 companies at IIT Madras. He heads the IITM Incubation Cell and Rural Technology and Business Incubator (RTBI). He leads TeNeT group, which has worked closely with industry to create innovative affordable products in sectors like telecom, banking, energy and electric vehicles. Dr. Jhunjhunwala has been Chairman and member of various government committees and has been on boards of several education institutions in the country. At the same time, he has been on the boards of a number of public and private companies and has driven comprehensive changes, especially in the areas of technology, in these companies. Dr. Jhunjhunwala has received several awards such as Padmashri, Shanti-Swarup Bhatnagar Award, Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, H. K. Firodia Award, Silicon India Leadership Award, etc. He is a fellow of IEEE, INSA, NAS, IAS, INAE and WWRF and a member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE), USA. He has also been conferred honorary doctorate by University of Maine and Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.

P. I John
Institute for Plasma Research
Gandhinagar
India
Biography
Biography of P. I John
Prof. P. I. John served as Senior Professor at the Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar. He was a member of a group of scientists, which established the Plasma Physics Programme in 1982, which evolved into the Institute for Plasma Research in 1986. In 1997, Prof. John set up the Facilitation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies, (FCIPT) to link IPR with industries, which successfully demonstrated that it was possible to translate knowledge in Physics into industrially relevant technologies in a commercially viable manner. Prof. John has mentored many plasma physicists who are working in India and abroad. Prof. John has 91 publications in international journals and holds 12 patents. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and Gujarat Science Academy. He was a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna on industrial plasma applications, to the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste on capacity building in plasma physics. He served as Head, Physics Section of the IAEA during 2002-03. He did PhD in Physics in 1969. He was Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Plasma. Besides, he was Head of the Physics Section at the International Atomic Energy Agency from Sept 2002 - May 2003. He remained a member of Professional Societies such as Indian Academy of Sciences, Gujarat Science Academy, Life member of Plasma Science Society of India etc. Has written a number of books and received many awards such as Padma Shri in 2010 by the Government of India and Mar Athanasius Medal by the Jacobite Syrian Church in 2010.

Ranjan K. Mallik
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Delhi
India
Biography
Biography of Ranjan K. Mallik
Ranjan K. Mallik is an Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He received the B.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, all in electrical engineering. He has worked as a scientist in the Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, India, and as a faculty member in IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati. His research interests are in diversity combining and channel modeling for wireless communications, space-time systems, cooperative communications, multiple-access systems, power line communications, molecular communications, difference equations, and linear algebra. He is a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, the Khosla National Award, the IETE Ram Lal Wadhwa Award, the IEI-IEEE Award for Engineering Excellence, and the J. C. Bose Fellowship. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, and a fellow of IEEE, the Indian National Academies INAE, INSA, NASI, and IASc, TWAS, the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, IET (U.K.), IETE (India), The Institution of Engineers (India), and the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. He served as an Area Editor and an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He was a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair for the Wireless Communications Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 and IEEE ICC 2010, a TPC Co-Chair for the PHY Track of IEEE WCNC 2013, and a TPC Co-Chair for the Communication Theory Symposium of IEEE ICC 2021.

Krishna B. Mishra
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Kharagpur,
India
Biography
Biography of Krishna B. Mishra
Dr. Krishna B. Misra received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from M.S. University of Baroda, India in 1963 and Master’s degree in Power System Engineering and Ph.D. (Reliability Eng.) degrees in 1966 and 1970, both from University of Roorkee, (Now Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee). Since 1963, he has taught and researched mainly at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and IIT-Kharagpur. He has held the position of a full professor since 1976 at IIT Roorkee. In 1980, he shifted to IIT Kharagpur where in 1983, he was appointed as Coordinator for INR.10.2 million project on Reliability Engineering by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, New Delhi, which led to the establishment of Reliability Engineering Centre at IIT Kharagpur in 1983, of which he was the founder Head. Dr. Misra has been one of the earliest persons in India to realize the importance of reliability engineering in the national context and to make India self-reliant and economically strong nation. He was the Founder Vice President of System Society of India and a member of IAQR National Council. He has published 10 papers in a year in reputed international journals. Prof. Misra has chaired sessions at several international conferences abroad. Prof. Misra has authored books which received great acknowledgments. He received several awards such as First Lal C. Verman Award in 1983 for his pioneering work in Reliability Engineering in the country by the IETE (India), several best paper awards including 1997 Award for Excellence for outstanding paper by Literari Club (U.K). Prof. Misra has published more than 250 papers in the international journals like, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and System, Microelectronics and Reliability, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, etc. Prof. Misra’s research papers have been widely cited in numerous international journals, and books published internationally.

Sankar K. Pal
National Science Chair, Govt. of India
Kolkata
India
Biography
Biography of Sankar K. Pal
Sankar K Pal (www.isical.ac.in/~sankar) is currently a National Science Chair, Govt. of India. He is a Distinguished Scientist and former Director of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), a former Distinguished Professor of Indian National Science Academy, and a former Chair Professor of Indian National Academy of Engineering. He founded the Machine Intelligence Unit and the Center for Soft Computing Research. He received a Ph.D. in Radio Physics and Electronics from the University of Calcutta in 1979, and another Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering along with DIC from Imperial College, University of London in 1982. He joined his Institute ISI in 1975 as a CSIR Senior. He is a Research Fellow where he became a Full Professor in 1987, Distinguished Scientist in 1998, the Director for the term 2005-2010, and the President for the term 2022-2024. He was the first computer scientist and someone outside Statistics and Mathematics to become the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute since its inception in 1931. He worked at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Maryland, College Park during 1986-87. Prof. Pal is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), International Association for Pattern Recognition, International Association of Fuzzy Systems, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, and all the four National Academies for Science/Engineering in India. He is a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has coauthored twenty-one books and about five hundred research publications in the areas of Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Image Processing, Data Mining and Web Intelligence, Soft Computing, Neural Nets, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Sets, Rough Sets, Cognitive Machine and Bioinformatics. He introduced the Soft Computing concept and research in India. He visited forty-five countries as a Keynote/ Invited speaker or an academic visitor. He has received several awards such as the 1990 S.S. Bhatnagar Prize (which is the most coveted award for a scientist in India), 2013 Padma Shri (one of the highest civilian awards) by the President of India and many prestigious awards in India and abroad. Prof. Pal has served/serving in editorial board of ~30 internationally well-known scientific journals in computer science and engineering including several IEEE Transactions. His Google Scholar h-index is 80 with 35,000+ total citations.

Pawan K. Sharma
Department of Chemistry
Kurukshetra University
Kurukshetra
India
Biography
Biography of Pawan K. Sharma
Pawan K. Sharma is a well-known Indian Chemist and presently a Professor at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Iowa, USA from 1998 to 2000, he worked as Research Associate Professor from 2003 to 2005 at the Nucleic Acid Center, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark. Afterwards, he has been a regular Visiting Researcher to SDU every summer from 2007 to 2016. His research interests and specialization include the chemical biology of nucleic acids (especially double headed nucleotides), small molecules based targeting of isoform selective carbonic anhydrases for anticancer evaluation, and apoptosis induction. His interest in atmospheric sciences secured him a berth amongst the chosen few to visit Antarctica as a Member Scientist in an Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica. His other interests lie in popularization of science and mentoring young minds as budding scientists. He is a member of many national and international scientific communities. Dr. Sharma has been bestowed with several prestigious awards and prizes for his academic achievements including Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Award by United States-India Educational Foundation, Srinivasa Ramanujan Birth Centenary Gold Medal by Indian Science Congress Association, Bronze Medal by Chemical Research Society of India, Platinum Jubilee Lecture Award and Professor D.P. Chakraborty 60th Birth Anniversary Commemoration Award by Indian Chemical Society.

CURRENT INDIAN SCIENCE

Editor-in-Chief

Deepak Pathania

Articles Ahead of Print

Theoretical Investigation on the Mechanistic Pathways of Cp*Cobalt(III)- Catalyzed Transformation of N-Substituted Carbamoyl Indoles to Pyrroloindolone Derivatives

A State-of-the-Art Review on Opioids Induced Constipation and its Management

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Traditional ayurvedic treatment practices by Vaidyas of the Northern region of India

Discovering the potential of plants in wound healing: A mechanistic review

Extraction Fuel During Hydro-distillation Modifies Eucalyptus Essential Oil Yield, Phytochemical Quality, and Capital Cost

Phytochemical, Medicinal, and Green Approaches of Allamanda cathartica L.: A Mini Review

Quinazolinone: Pharmacophore with Endless Pharmacological Actions

Exploring human 5HT1A/2A receptor through Homology modeling and flexible docking studies for the binding hotspot of substituted 2,4-imidazolidinedione and Oxazolidinedione derivatives

Chronic Inflammatory Pain Modulating Potential of Rubiadin: In-Vivo, In-Vitro and In-Silico Investigations

Platinum(II) Complexes of 3-Hydroxypyridine-2-Carboxaldehyde, N(4)-Methyl and N(4)-Pyrrolidinyl Thiosemicarbazones: Synthesis, Characterization, and Primary Anticancer Screening against HeLa cells, and Molecular Docking