Nanosensors for Futuristic Smart and Intelligent Healthcare Systems (PDF)

Vijay Soni, PhD is associated with Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, since 2016 and has total 10 years of research experience. During his Ph.D. (2012 to 2016) he worked on Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell wall protein (GlmU) and characterized it as a best therapeutic target to cure tuberculosis (TB). He elucidated the detailed crystal structure and biochemistry of the protein GlmU and also determined the essentiality of the gene for bacterial survival at different stages of growth and during TB infection. These findings led him to develop a new therapeutic molecule - Oxazolidine 33 (Oxa33) which specifically targets the protein (GlmU) and is capable of killing the TB bacteria. The work was recognized by National Academy of Science India for the "NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award" in 2017; the "Inspiring Science Award 2017" by TNQ-Cell Press; "BioAsia Innovation award" 2016 by Global BioBusiness Forum; and "Global Health Award" by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Currently, he is working in the field of metabolomics to understand the immunological insults and adaptations happening during TB infection. He is working to identify various metabolic signatures and important mechanisms to enhance the therapeutic potential of anti-TB drugs and therapies. He is good at scientific idea identification, metabolomics data analysis, database preparation, identifying new drug targets with the help of metabolomics and genetic engineering etc.

Dr Efstathia Skotti, is an assistant professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology of the Ionian University in Greece. She holds a bachelor on Environmental Science by the University of the Aegean in Greece, an MSc on Quality management and Control by the Technical University of Crete, Greece and a PhD on bioactivity and toxicity of cultivated and native medicinal and aromatic plant extracts by the Agricultural University of Athens. Her research interests are on use of natural bioactive molecules in anti-aging through diet, food supplements or cosmetic applications, the biological activity, toxicity and mode of action of natural products through various screening techniques based on micro-organisms, the spectroscopic study (FT-IR) of microorganisms and natural products, as well as the extraction and chemical analysis of natural products and by-products using chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques.