Shaikh Ajij Ahmad Makbul, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ilmul Advia (Pharmacology) at National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He also worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ilmul Advia (Pharmacology) at State Unani Medical College and Hospital in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 review and research articles published in journals of national and international repute. He has also published six book chapters and four books (in Urdu). His book Advia aur Aamal-e-Dawasazi (Drugs and Pharmaceutical Procedures) has received an award from Urdu Academy, Uttar Pradesh, in 2022. His research interests include plant identification, toxicity studies, experimental pharmacology, and photochemistry in Unani medicine. He was awarded his MD and PhD from the National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM), Bangalore, India.
Shamim Irshad Azmi, MD, is presently working as Associate Professor at State Takmeel Ut-Tib College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. He was formerly an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ilmul Advia at the National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM), Bangalore; an Associate Professor in the Department of Ilmul Advia (Pharmacology) at State Unani Medical College and Hospital, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, and a Principal at Jamia Tibbiya Deoband Unani Medical College, Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has more than 13 years of teaching and research experience in Unani history, pharmacology, pharmacy, and experimental pharmacology. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles and 16 books, contributed more than 25 chapters (in Urdu), and translated many manuscripts from Arabic to Urdu related to Unani medicine. He has also published more than 12 research and review articles in national and international peer-reviewed indexed journals. He is also a reviewer for many national and international journals and editor of many national journals of Unani medicine. He completed his MD at the National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM), Bangalore, India.
Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, PhD, is Senior Assistant Professor at Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. He received his PhD degree from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India, in 2008, prior to conducting postdoctoral research at the Botanical Institute, University of Basel (BIB), Switzerland, and Chonbuk National University (CBNU), Republic of Korea. He was formerly an Assistant Professor at Jimma University and Fellow Researcher at Universiti Putra Malaysia's (UPM) Institute of Tropical Agriculture. He has been listed among the top 2% of scientists in the world consecutively for the past three years, according to Stanford University in the United States. Dr. Akhtar is the author and co-author of more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, as well as book chapters, and 21 edited books with international publishers. He has received numerous honors and awards including the Albert Nelson Marquis Award (2018) from the Marquis Who's Who Society, USA; and Teacher Innovation Award (2019 & 2022) from ZIIEI, Sri Arvindo Society, Puducherry, India. In addition to this, he is member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan, Fellow of the Plantae Group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, and member of the International Society of Environmental Relationship and Sustainability, Chennai, India, and International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Application (ISAAA), Manila, Republic of the Philippines. He is serving the scientific community as an editorial board member and reviewer for several high-impact international journals. His current work focuses on the molecular biotechnology, bioremediation, biomineralization, nano-fertilizers, and nanobiotechnology of rhizospheric plant-microbe interactions.
