Recent Trends in Antifungal Agents and Antifungal Therapy (PDF)

Amit Basak, currently
Professor of Chemistry and Chairman, School of Bioscience, IIT Kharagpur,obtained
his Ph.D. (natural product chemistry) from Calcutta University and D. Phil. (penicillin
biosynthesis) from University of Oxford. He then worked on clavulanic acid
biosynthesis as a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University. His
research interests involve understanding the mechanism of diradical generating
reactions and their applications, development of enzyme inhibitors as
antimicrobial agents and molecular capture chemistry. He has received several
prestigious awards and fellowships for his research contribution.



Ranadhir Chakraborty was born in
Darjeeling. He has worked for Ph.D in the Department of Microbiology, Bose
Institute, Kolkata, India. He is at present serving the Department of
Biotechnology, University of North Bengal, in the capacity of Professor and
Head. He maintained a perfect blend of classical and modern microbiology in his
ongoing journey of Science. He probes some basic scientific problems including
antimicrobial resistance with cutting edge technology of every passing time period.

Santi M. Mandal obtained his Ph D in the field of Molecular
Microbiology and continuing research with major focus in Antimicrobial
Chemotherapy. He visited UTMB-USA and NUS-Singapore for his postdoctoral
training. Recently, he is working as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at
Vidyasagar University, India. He has published more than 90 research papers in
reputed journals and conferred upon several prestigious awards for his research
contribution.