Biotechnology Approaches to Industrial and Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment

Author Biography

Ajmer Singh Grewal , Professor (Pharmaceutical Chemistry), Guru Gobind Singh College of Pharmacy, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana (India), is having academic and research experience of 13+ years in medicinal chemistry. He had completed PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in the subject area of Computational and Medicinal Chemistry from I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab (India) in 2020. His present areas of research include structure-based drug design and medicinal chemistry of MMP2 and MMP9 inhibitors as anticancer agents, antibacterial drug resistance (NDM-1), GK activators as anti-diabetic agents, AR inhibitors for diabetic complications, PPAR agonists for metabolic syndrome, multi-potent anti-Alzheimer’s agents, selective PDE4 & 7 inhibitors as anti-inflammatory agents and environmental chemistry. He owns to his credit a total of more than 100 publications in national and international journals of repute, 20 book chapters, 15 books (10 edited), and 6 patents. He serves as a reviewer for reputed international journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, SAGE, and Frontiers. He is a life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE). He had worked on various sophisticated analytical instruments including UV-Vis and FTIR spectrophotometer, Flash chromatography, and HPLC; and also, on various molecular modelling softwares including ChemSketch, ChemDraw and Marvin Sketch; Open Babel and Frog2 for structure optimization; PyMOL for molecular graphics, Glide (Schrodinger), AutoDock, AutoDock Vina, Discovery Studio (Dassault Systemes BIOVIA), Omega and Open Eye for in silico molecular docking studies. Geeta Deswal is presently working as Professor (Pharmacognosy) at Guru Gobind Singh College of Pharmacy, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana (India). She has obtained PhD from M.M. Deemed to be University, Mullana, Haryana (India) in Quality Audit of Herbal Formulations in 2017. She is an expert in bioactivity-guided extraction and isolation of phytoconstituents, standardization of drugs and herbal formulations, and phytochemical screening of medicinal plants and plant tissue culture. She is also working on the formulation and evaluation of herbal products as antimicrobial agents. She has worked on UV-Visible spectrophotometer, HPLC, Soxhlet Apparatus, Clevenger Apparatus, Sonicator, Rota evaporator, and Thin Layer Chromatography and Column Chromatography. She owns to her credit 40 publications in national and international journals of repute, 12 book chapters and 10 books. She is also a Life member of the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI), the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) the Indian Pharmacy Graduates Association (IPGA). She received the “Young Achiever Award” by Shree Balaji Books and Innovational Ambassador by the Innovational Cell, MHRD, AICTE, New Delhi. Arun Lal Srivastav works as an Associate Professor at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India. He obtained Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India. He has done post-doctoral research at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. He is currently involved in teaching Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Disaster Management, and Design Thinking to undergraduate engineering students. His research interests include Water Quality Surveillance, Climate Change, Water Treatment, River Ecosystems, Soil Health, Phytoremediation and Waste Management. He has published over 80 research papers in various prestigious journals (Elsevier, Springer Nature, IWA, Wiley, etc.), including book chapters and conference papers. He is the editor of 17 books with Elsevier, Nova, Springer, IGI Global, and Wiley.