Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease: Mechanisms and Management

Dr. Awanish Kumar is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the National Institute of Technology, Raipur (CG), India. He has more than 13 years of research experience. He received his PhD in Molecular Parasitology from the CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India, and completed his postdoctoral studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His research interests are infection biology, drug targeting, and drug discovery. Dr. Kumar has served on various national and international organizations in different academic and research capacities. He has also served on many national committees and scientific advisory panels, as a member of many international professional research societies, and as a reviewer and editorial board member of reputed and refereed journals. He has authored or edited several monographs, books, and book chapters.

Dr. Anju T R is Assistant Professor Biotechnology at Newman College, Kerala and Secretary of Society for Biotechnologists. She completed her Masters degree in Biotechnology at Gulbarga University, Karnataka, India and doctoral degree at Centre for Neuroscience, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India. Dr. Anju completed her postdoctoral research on a five year project funded by Department of Biotechnology to study the long term effects of neonatal hypoglycemia. She has published 44 research papers in SCI journals; 19 book chapters and edited 7 books and is the recipient of Kerala State Young Scientist Award 2012 by Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment; and various other awards. Her research is focused on molecular signaling and neurotransmitter receptor functions in the brain under neonatal stress and various disease conditions like diabetes and epilepsy. Currently her research team is working on nanotechnology and phyto-constituent based interventions for biomedical applications.