Shashank KumarShashank Kumar, PhD, obtained his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in biochemistry from the University of Allahabad. He has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biochemistry in King George’s Medical University. Dr. Kumar has about 60 publishd scientific papers, reviews, editorial articles, and book chapters in various national and international peer-reviewed journals and has been cited more than 1,200 times. His expertise is in the areas of free radical biology, cancer biology, characterization of plant products, xenobiotic metabolism, and microbiology. He is familiar with many biochemical techniques such as spectrophotometry, ELISA, electrophoresis, PCR, RT-PCR, flow cytometry, TLC, HPLC, LC-MS, cell culture, and microbiological techniques. He has presented his research findings at more than 25 national and international conferences and has attended about 30 workshops at many major universities and medical colleges throughout the India. Dr. Kumar is a life-time member of the Italo-Latin American Society of Ethnomedicine and the Indian Sciences Congress Association, and a member of the Asian Council of Science Editors in Dubai and Publication Integrity & Ethics in London. He has been awarded junior, senior, and research associate fellowships formulated and funded by various Indian agencies, such as the Indian Council of Medical Research, University Grants Commission, and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research India. Read More Read Less