Biographical note

Raju Khan is a Senior Principal Scientist and Professor, at CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, Bhopal. He did his PhD in Chemistry in 2005 from Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University, New Delhi, and Postdoctoral researcher at the “Sensor Research Laboratory” University of the Western Cape, Cape Town. His current research involved synthesizing novel materials to fabricate electrochemical and fluorescence-based biosensors integrated with microfluidics to detect target disease risk biomarkers for health care monitoring. He has published over 150 papers in SCI journal, which attracted over 5500 citations as per Google Scholar, published 45 book chapters in the reputed book Elsevier and Taylor Francis, editing of 28 books from Elsevier and Taylor Francis, and his research has been highlighted in Nature India. He has supervised 5 PhD and 30 undergraduate/postgraduate theses and has supervised 4 numbers of postdoctoral fellows under the scheme of N-PDF, CSIR-Nehru Fellowship, and DST-Women Scientist Projects. Arpana Parihar is a DST Scientist B at CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal, India. She has 8 years of research and teaching experience and her current research interests include fabrication (Micro/Nano-fabrication) of Bio-devices/bio-medical POCT Devices for early diagnosis of cancer and infectious disease. She has gained significant expertise in the field of 3D cell culture, drug designing, tissue engineering, photodynamic therapy, molecular dynamic simulations, and immunoinformatics. Sunil Kumar Sanghi was working as Chief Scientist, Professor and head at Microfluidics & MEMS Centre, CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, Bhopal, India. His past research areas were development of manual and automated procedures for all kinds of analytes in biomedical, pharmaceutical and environmental samples using micro liquid, capillary gas chromatographic and capillary electrophoretic separation techniques in combination with sample preparation, derivatization and reaction-detection systems, micro-chip-based separation under the concept of lab-on-a-chip. Dr. Sanghi has successfully completed several International and national collaborative R & D projects viz. Indo- European Union, Indo – French, NMITLI etc. He was awarded the reputed Marie Curie Fellowship of European Union, and worked as a visiting scientist for three years at the University of Amsterdam and Institute Curie, Paris. He holds an experience of 35 years in R&D and teaching. Recently, Dr. Sanghi has received the National Meritorious Innovation Award 2021 from Government of India.