Phytochemicals for Potential Dermatological Applications

Author Biography

Amit Kumar Mandal Amit Kumar Mandal completed his M.Sc and Ph.D. from the University of North Bengal. Before joining Raiganj University, Amit served at Vidyasagar University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology under the UGC-Innovative Programme. Presently, he is the center-in-charge of the Centre for Nanotechnology Science (CeNS). He has over 10 years of research, teaching, and administrative experience and authored 70+ SCI publications in top journals including three research patents with a cumulative impact of >333 as per Journal Citation Report, Web of Science. Dr. Mandal has been on the editorial board and the panel of reviewers of several reputed publishers viz. Nature Portfolio, Elsevier, RSC, ACS, Wiley and BioMed Central. His major research interests include Chemical Biology and Interactome. He received MRSC from the Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom. He was declared a Top 5% highly cited author- in 2020 by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was awarded the top cited papers India awards-2022 by IOP Publishing’s portfolio. Recently, due to his strong publication record, the impact of his work, and the notable quality of his scholarly contributions have placed him in the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide as per ScholarGPS. He received research grants from DST-SERB to undertake R&D activities. Simona Ioana Vicas Simona Ioana VICAS completed her Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and her Master's degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Bucharest, Romania. She achieved his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from USAMV University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He currently holds the position of a full professor at the Department of Food Engineering at the University of Oradea, Romania. Additionally, she has the expertise to supervise a PhD program in Biology domain. With more than 25 years of research and teaching experience, she has published over 70 papers in various high-level journals (Hirsch Index =20, web of science) in the fields of phytochemistry, cosmetics, functional foods, and bioeconomy. She was responsible for the projects manager and was a member of multiple research projects. She is interested in bioactive compounds such as polyphenols and glucosinolates from different plant matrix, and how they can be used in the fields of food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and medicine. Her other areas of interest include antioxidant capacity, antigenotoxicity, functional foods, nanoparticles and cell culture. Florina Miere (Groza) Miere (Groza) Florina took the first step in her biomedical career in 2017 when she graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Oradea. She has been awarded for her exceptional results from the beginning of her career until now by people in the medical and pharmaceutical fields. He completed his PhD in Biology at the Doctoral School of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Oradea. She currently works as a university assistant at the University of Oradea in the discipline of Biochemistry. Since 2020, She have been able to work with the multidisciplinary team of researchers/teachers, resulting multiple scientific articles published in renowned journals. It has articles that have been designated as the most cited articles of 2022. Due to published articles, she has an H-index=11 (Web of Science). In the field of research and innovation, she continued to develop, being involved in two projects of the University of Oradea of the INO-TRANSFER-UO type (Scientific Research of Excellence Related to Priority Areas with Capitalization through Technological Transfer). In one project as a team member and one as a project manager. She is also involved as a member of the editorial team in various journal in the medical filed. The major areas of interest for Florina (Miere) Groza are represented by bioactive compounds from plants, nanotechnologies in the medical and pharmaceutical fields and how they can be used in other fields such as cosmetics and food.