Herbal Medicines: A Boon for Healthy Human Life

Dr. Siddique is working as a Senior Assistant Professor at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, India, and got post-doctoral trainings at the University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota & University of S. California, USA. His research specializations are Cancer Biology, Pharmacology, and Toxicology. He is now the Programme Director of Molecular Cancer Genetics and Translational Research program at AMU. He is, so far, published more than 75 original research papers in journals like Nature Communications, Hepatology, Stem Cells, Clinical Cancer Research, Cancer Research, Genes and Cancer, Seminars in Cancer Biology, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, Dalton Transections, Cor-ordination Chemistry Reviews, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, etc. He is the recipient of several academic awards such SBUR-Young Scientist Travel Award, USA; IABS-Outstanding Cancer Research Award, India; SPER-Innovative Researcher Award, India; “AEDS-Distinguish Scientist Award, India, etc. He is a member of several scientific societies/associations such as the American Association of Cancer Research, National Academy Sciences, India, Indian Association for Cancer Research, etc. He regularly delivers invited talks, filed four patents, and 26-awards/honors to his credit. Further, he serves as an editorial member of five Journals and reviewers of more than 50 reputed international journals. Multiple Government Agencies of India support his ongoing research.

Dr. Maryam Sarwat is an Indian Citizen, working as an Associate Professor in the Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Noida. She has obtained her Ph. D. in 2007 and completed postdoctoral research at ICGEB, New Delhi. She has received several research grants from various R & D agencies such as DST, DBT, CCRUM and SERB in India. She has presented her findings in scientific conferences in various countries like Germany, Czech Republic and France etc. Dr. Sarwat has mentored six PhD and fifteen Masters’ students. She has more than 55 international publications in reputed journals and three patents to her credit. She is the recipient of the prestigious “Scientist of the Year Award in 2015. Dr. Sarwat has published two volumes of “Stress Signaling in Plants, Genomics and Proteomics Perspective with Springer Nature in 2013 and 2017. She has also authored two books with Elsevier entitled ‘Senescence Signaling and Control in Plants’ in 2018 and ‘Saffron: The Age-Old Panacea in a New Light’ in the early 2020. She has also published the title ‘Environment and Human Health’ through King Abdul Aziz University Press in 2020. Her two volumes on ‘Ethnic Knowledge on Biodiversity, Nutrition and Health Security’ are due for publication by Taylor and Francis in 2021. She has served various international journals as reviewer