Subhash C. Mandal, currently working as a Professor (since 2010) in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology of Jadavpur University, is one of the leading Pharmacognosy researchers in India and the world. Prof. Mandal completed all his Pharmacy education, starting from B.Pharm to PhD, from Jadavpur University and is serving the University as a permanent faculty since 1997. Prof. Mandal has played a pivotal role in globalization of research in Indian traditional medicine with special emphasis to scientific exploration of medicinal plants in rural Bengal for the treatment of lifestyle and metabolic diseases. He has been working in the area of drug discovery from traditional medicine through an integrated holistic approach for more than 15 years which has fetched him prestigious recognitions from different national and international organizations. He has also been recognized with the Distinguished Education and Research Award from prestigious American Association for Indian Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAiPS) at Los Angeles, USA in 2009. Prof. Mandal played a key role in inclusion of Pharmacognosy as a Post Graduate subject at different Indian Universities and is striving towards bringing all Pharmacognosy researchers worldwide under a single umbrella. Prof. Mandal was also awarded prestigious Endeavour Award from Ministry of Higher Education, Government of Australia, for an advanced level research on obesity and diabetes at University of Canberra, Australia in 2009. Prof. Mandal also holds SAARC award from University Grants Commission, Bangladesh in 2007, 2011 and Talented Scientist award from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2011. He was also on deputation at King s College, London in 2005, under Prof. Peter J Houghton, funded by World Bank, Technical Education Quality Improve Programme of Jadavpur University. Till date he has completed more than eight government funded projects on Indian Traditional Medicines and Drug Discovery.

Dr. William Cho is a Biomedical Scientist in Queen Elizabeth Hospital. His main research interests have been focusing on cancer studies utilizing high-throughput technologies to discover biomarkers for cancer diagnosis, treatment prediction and prognostication. He is a Chartered Scientist granted by the Science Council (UK), a Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner (HK), Guest Professor of a number of Universities and a Fellow Member of several institutes, including the Institute of Biomedical Science (UK), Hong Kong Institute of Biomedical Science and Hong Kong Society for Molecular Diagnostic Sciences. Dr Cho has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers (Lancet Oncology, Clinical Cancer Research, Clinical Chemistry, Annuals of Oncology, etc) covering cancer biomarkers, proteomics, microRNAs, Chinese medicine and plenty of books including "MicroRNAs in cancer translational research", "An omics perspective on cancer research", "Supportive cancer care with Chinese medicine", etc. He serves as the editor-in-chief, editor and associate editor of a number of international medical journals. Dr Cho is also an international renowned grant reviewer of the Hope Funds for Cancer Research (USA), Cancer Research (UK), MRC Research Grant (UK), Health Research Board (Ireland), Science Foundation (Ireland), Istituto Toscano Tumori (Firenze), The Foundation Fournier-Majoie for Innovation (Brussels), National Medical Research Council (Singapore), The Medical Research Council (South Africa), and Academia Sinica Investigator Award (Taiwan), etc.