Mukesh Samant is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology's Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory at Soban Singh Jeena University, Almora, Uttarakhand, India. He earned his PhD from the Division of Parasitology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has more than four years of postdoctoral experience at Laval University, Quebec, Canada, and more than 20 years of research experience of Leishmania biology, microbiology, immunology, molecular parasitology, bioremediation, and rhizosphere microbiology. He has published more than 45 research papers in highly reputed international journals. He has reviewed publications for various international journals likeScientific Reports, Vaccine, Parasitology, Journal of Immunology, andFrontiers in Microbiology. He is currently working on live attenuated vaccine and drug development against various parasites and viruses and has completed two research projects in this area.

Dr. Prashant Khare is a Vice President (R&D) at Xenesis Institute, Absolute in Gurugram (Haryana), India. Previously, he was a Ramalingaswami Fellow and Scientist D in the Department of Microbiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, India. He completed his PhD from the Division of Parasitology at the Central Drug Research Institute in Lucknow, (Uttar Pradesh), India. He has almost five years of postdoctoral experience from the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research and UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, USA, and more than 15 years of research experience in the field of infectious biology, immunology, vaccine, and drug development. He has published more than 30 research papers in highly reputable international journals such as Nature Immunology and Nature Communication. He has reviewed publications and served in an editorial role for several international journals as well.