Biographical note

Dr. Poonam Parashar is currently an Associate Professor at the Amity Institute of Pharmacy at Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, India. Formerly, she worked at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER-R) at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India. She is involved in research academic administrative activity and serves as an active member of various university committees such as the student research committee and IQAC committee. Her key areas of interest are nanotechnology, drug delivery, wound healing, and biomaterials. She has published a number of articles in journals of international repute. She has received a DST WOS A fellowship and UGC fellowship and has been awarded with the best oral/ poster presentation award at various conferences. Dr. Anoop Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences & Research University (DPSRU), India. With a distinguished career, he has previously served as an Assistant Professor and Head at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Raebareli, and as Head and Associate Professor at ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga, Punjab. Dr. Kumar has also held research positions at Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited and Translational Health Science Institute (THSTI). He earned his Ph.D. from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, as a DST INSPIRE Fellow. He is an Associate Editor for Health Sciences Review and Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. His research focuses on drug repurposing, clinical trial meta-analysis, pharmacoeconomics, and pharmacovigilance.