A B PantDr AB Pant is a seasoned toxicologist with over thirty years of active research career. He started his research career at CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India, and earned his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India Presently, he is serving as Senior Principal Scientist at CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. In the scientific fraternity, Dr Pant is renowned for his elegant research on the application of human cord blood stem cells (hCBSCs) in developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) and establishing the number of in vitro model systems as an alternative to Laboratory animals for biomedical research. His DNT research provides profound insights into the complex processes involved in neuronal development, injury and repair mimicking to the human brain during the gestation and early stage of life. More precisely, his work discovered that how the master regulator signalling molecules/cascades are critical to converting hCBSCs into functional neurons and what exactly happens when things go wrong during the intricate process of neuronal development. In his much-acclaimed research, he has uncovered new links between the xenobiotic metabolizing capabilities and their regulators in hCBSCs derived neuronal cells all through the differentiation. His work on the developing neurons not only offers a much sought after the framework for understanding the neurodegenerative disorders and potential therapeutic interventions but also is a strong base for future studies aimed at interpreting the human brain-specific DNT. Dr Pant has handled and currently being handling numbers of research projects as Principal Investigator, awarded from National and International funding agencies, including ICMR, DBT, DST, CSIR, Indo-Brazil, UP-CST, etc. Besides the laboratory work, he dedicated himself to fostering the science among students through public outreach talks and mentoring pre-and postdoctorates. Since 2010 he has also been associated with National GLP Compliance Monitoring Authority, Government of India as Lead GLP Inspector. The accreditation agencies of the country-BIS, CDSCO, FSSAI, NABL, and so on are also utilizing his expertise through different task forces. He was a member of the draft committee of National SOP for Patients' Consent in India developed by the Institute of Medicine & Law, Mumbai. As an International Advisor, he has been instrumental in establishing the WHO funded Centre of Excellence for Nanotechnology at Makerere University, Uganda. In the acknowledgement of his achievements in the professional career, he has been elected Fellow Several Scientific and Academies bodies, to name a few are: Academy of Toxicological Sciences, USA, Society of Toxicology, India, Indian Academy of Neurosciences, Academy of Sciences for Animal Welfare, India, Academy of Environmental Biology India, etc. Dr Pant is a UK Registered Toxicologist of the Royal Society of Biology, London, UK. Dr Pant is a recipient several prestigious awards such as Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize-2007 (ICMR), Vigyan Ratna Award-2010 (UP-Council of Science & Technology-Uttar Pradesh), National Bioscience Award-2012 (DBT), Prof. KT Shetty Memorial Oration Award-2017 (Indian Academy of Neurosciences), Toxicology Promotion Award-2018 (National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad), etc. Dr Pant has over 150 research publications in International journals of high impact and author of 11 book chapters. Dr Pant is also rendering the Editorial services to several research journals of high repute, to mention a few are: Editorial Member: Scientific Report (Nature Publishing Group), Academic Editor: PLoS ONE (2010-2018), Advisory Member: Toxicology Research (Royal Society of Chemistry), Associate Editor: Annals of Neurosciences (Journal of Academy of Neurosciences), and so on. Dr. Pant is also serving as Chairman/Expert Members in various taskforces/ Regulatory/Scientific Bodies at the national level. Read More Read Less
