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Ageing Research Reviews, Molecular Neurobiology, Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, RNA Biology, PLos One, Journal of Clinical Immunology, Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research, Biochim. Biophys. Acta (Molecular Biology of Disease), Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., FEBS Letts., Mol. Biol. Rep. etc. He has also contributed chapters to books including "Gene and its Engineering", "Textbook of Biotechnology", "Textbook of Geriatric Medicine", "Quality Aging". He has been the recipient of several awards including the A. B. Mishra award for being the gold-medalist during his M. Sc.; the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research fellowship for completing his Ph. D.; Swiss National Fund post-doctoral fellowship; Young Scientist research project of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 1993-95; Advanced Genome Sequencing and Analysis course fellowship, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, 1998; Clayton Research Foundation Visiting Scientist fellowship, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 1998-99 etc. He is a life member of many scientific bodies, including Vice-President of the Association of Gerontology, India (AGI), Indian Immunology Society (IIS), Indian Society of Cell Biology (ISCB), Association of Biotechnologists of India (ABI), Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR), Society of Biological Chemists (India), and the Society for Translational Cancer Research (STCR). He has been a part of many scientific meetings, conferences and committees. He is a reviewer for many reputed journals, such as Cancer Investigations, DNA and Cell Biology, Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics, J Genetics, Scientific Reports (NPG), FEBS Letts, BMC Cancer (Biomed Central), Molecular Neurobiology, Neuroscience Letts, Molecular Biology Reports, e-CAM, Biomed. Res. Int., J. Cell. Biochem., Biogerontology etc. He is an Editorial Board member for Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Switzerland.



Ramesh Sharma (Ph. D., Banaras Hindu University, 1981) is a Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. He did his post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, USA (1986-88), and was a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Enzyme Research at Tokushima University, Japan (1989-90) and at the Department of Biochemistry at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University, Chiba, Japan (2003-04). He has been teaching various disciplines of physiology and biochemistry for the past 33 years, mostly at the post-graduate/research level. He has been on the editorial board of international journals such as 'Biogerontology' from Springer, the Netherlands; 'International Journal of Developmental Neurosciences' from Elsevier, USA; 'Okinawa Wellness & Longevity Journal' Okinawa, Japan; and 'Frontiersin Genetics of Aging', Science Park, Switzerland. He has produced more than 80 publications in international and national journals of repute in the field of aging research and has produced 16 Ph. D.s. In 2008, he was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India). He has been the Head of the Department of Biochemistry for three terms (1993-96; 1999-2002; 2011-14) and is presently Coordinator of the UGC-SAP programme in Biochemistry and the Dean, School of Life Sciences. He has also been Coordinator of the University with Potential for Excellence (UPE) given by UGC to NEHU. He has been a member of the board of management of NERIST and a research council member of CSIR-RRL (now NEIST), Jorhat, Assam. Prof. Sharma has also been Chairman of the Board for under- and post-graduate studies in Biochemistry, Home Science and Nursing and a member of the Academic Council of NEHU and Mizoram University. He has been the President of Association of Gerontology (India) and is amember of the Task Force on Neuro-Disease Biology, DBT, GOI (2014-17). Prof. Sharma visited Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary (2014) under INSA-Senior Scientist Exchange Fellowship and was a Visiting Researcher at Toho University, Chiba, Japan (Jan. 01-March 31, 2016).



S. Prasad did his B. Sc. (1978, Bot., Zool., Chem.); M. Sc. (1980, Zoology with Biochemistry Specialization); Ph. D. (1988, Zoology) from the Banaras Hindu University (B.H.U.), Varanasi, India and joined as a Lecturer in 1991 and is serving at present as a Professor at the Department of Zoology, Institute of Science, B.H.U. since 2008. He worked on "Age-associated Studies on HMG Non-Histone Proteins of the Rat Liver" for his doctoral degree under the mentorship of Prof. M. K. Thakur, F.N.A.Sc., F.I.A.N. His current research interests are focused on molecular, behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of aging as well as learning and memory during aging and diseases. He visited Royal Cancer Centre Research Institute, Tokyo under AMBO International Fellowship to work on "Genomics of Cancer" in 1991 and availed MRC Visiting Fellowship to work on "Estrogen-induced Expression of Genes in Aging Brain" with Prof. J. A. Edwardson at MRC Neurochemical Pathology Unit, New Castle General Hospital, New Castle upon Tyne, U.K. duing 1995-96. He is associated with teaching of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Physiology, Neuroscience, Molecular Techniques at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels in the Department of Zoology since last 26 years and Biochemistry and Neurobiology at the Department of Molecular Human Genetics until 2011. He has produced three Ph. D. students and four to submit their Ph. D. theses. He has guided and trained several postgraduate students from BHU and other universities for their dissertation work. He has been on several academic and administrative committees of the Institute of Sciences and University. He has served as member on Board of Studies for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics and Zoology at the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Molecular Human Genetics, Biophysics, Forensic Science and Interdisciplinary School of Life Sciences at BHU. He has published 34 research publications in journals of high impact on Aging, Molecular Biology and Neuroscience. He has written book chapters and review articles. He has edited a book on "Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology" (Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi). He is in the reviewers' panel of many journals, e.g., Biogerontology (Springer), Neurochemistry International (Elsevier), World Journal of diabetes and ECAM (Hindawi). He has been elected as a member of the National Academy Sciences (India), Allahabad in 2010 and is associated with Association of Gerontology (India), Society of Biological Chemists, Indian society of Cell Biology, Indian Academy of Neurosciences and Society of Neurochemistry (India) as a life member and currently serving as the Secretary of Associationof Gerontology (India).