Advances in Microbial Biotechnology (ePub)

Jayanta Kumar Patra, PhD, is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Research Institute of Biotechnology and Medical Converged Science, Dongguk University, Ilsandong, Gyeonggido, Republic of Korea. His current research is focused on nanoparticle synthesis by green technology methods and their potential application in biomedical and agricultural fields. He has about ten years of research and teaching experience in the field of food, pharmacological, and nanobiotechnology. Since 2007, he has published more than 80 papers in various national and international peer-reviewed journals of Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, etc. He has published over a dozen book chapters and has edited four books. In addition, he serves as an editorial board member for several international journals and science magazines. Dr. Patra completed his PhD (Life Sciences) at North Orissa University, India, and PDF (Biotechnology) from Yeungnam University, South Korea

Pranjal Chandra, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator in the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India. He has published over 50 research articles in reputed journals and three books. He is also a visiting scientist and visiting professor at the Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology (IBST), South Korea. Dr. Pranjal's research contributions are highly interdisciplinary, spanning a wide range in nanobiotechnology, nanobiosensors, lab-on-chip systems for biomedical diagnostics, and nanomedicine. His work has been highlighted in the Chemistry World News of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, as "a new system for cancer detection" and also featured as a key scientific article in the Global Medical Discovery news Canada. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards and fellowships such as the Ramanujan fellowship (Government of India), Early Carrier Research Award (Government of India), BK-21 and NRF fellowship of South Korea, Technion postdoctoral fellowship (Israel), University of Montreal Postdoc fellowship (Canada), NMS Young scientist Award (2016), etc. He is also an editorial board member of a dozen international journals. Dr. Chandra earned his PhD from Pusan National University, South Korea, and did postdoctoral training at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.