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I am Chanchal Kumawat. I started my journey in science as Ph.D. student at Regional Centre for Biotechnology and continued as postdoctoral fellow at Max Perutz labs, Austria.  I enjoyed making scientific discoveries in the laboratory and now, enjoy communicating it as a science writer.

Apoorva More works as Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry department at St. John Institute of Pharmacy and Research, Palghar. She has completed her M. Pharm in Quality Assurance. Her research interests are Lipid based technologies, formulation development, nutraceuticals and novel drug delivery systems.

Bharat Dhokchawale is currently working at St. John Institute of Pharmacy and Research as Associate Professor and Head of Pharmaceutical Chemistry department. He holds Ph. D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences. His research interest includes Prodrug synthesis, synthetic chemistry and solubility enhancement of poorly water soluble drugs. He has total 14 years of teaching experience and 19 publications to his credit in International and National journals of repute. He has presented several papers in international conferences.

Thomas Caratsch has been the Head of Laboratory Division since December 2007 at the company's headquarters in Greifensee, Switzerland. Prior to joining the company, Caratsch held various management positions within the Hoffmann La Roche group in the U.S. and Switzerland, including General Manager of Roche Instrument Centre AG and Head of Disetronic Medical Systems AG. He began his career as a development engineer at Sodeco-Saia in Geneva.

Co-Founder at DPHS Pvt. Ltd., Dr. Krutikesh Age is a researcher and a visionary committed towards propelling the field of clinical research and healthcare expansion in India. As the Co-founder of DPHS, Krutikesh manages varied key roles including Leadership, developing business and marketing strategies and Networking to name a few. It is through the deep understanding of clinical research and market dynamics that he has been instrumental in expanding the operations of DPHS in the past few years.

Dr. M. Aamir Mirza is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics, Jamia Hamdard, an NIRF Rank 1 institute and a NAAC ‘A+” grade deemed to be University. He has a multifaceted career portfolio adorned with both industry and academic accomplishments. During his industry stay he became a seasoned scientist and dealt with challenging NCE/NDA development. He is on advisory boards of some international research-based companies of India, New Zealand and Europe. Academics and Research being close to his heart, he has published more than 110 manuscripts in the journals of international repute and has been granted 02 Indian patent and filed for 04. He has contributed several chapters in books published by reputed authors like Elsevier and Bentham. He is amongst the very few scientists globally who has an expertise in Humic substances research. A well-travelled scientist; he has delivered scientific addresses in countries like USA, Austria, Japan, Netherlands, Turkey, Estonia, Spain and Russia. He has been Elite Fellow at University of Malaya (Malaysia) for the last 5 years where he takes classes on the topics related to industrial pharmacy.