Dr. Palpu Pushpangadan, Ph.D., FBRS, FES, FIAT, FNRS, FNSE, FNESA, FNAASc, FNASc, FRSC (UK), Padma Shri Awardee, UN Equator Initiative Laureate and Borlaug Awardee, is the Director General of Amity Institute for Herbal and Biotech Products Development, Thiruvananthapuram and Sr. Vice President, RBEF. Formerly he had been the Director of CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow and prior to this he had been the Director of KSCSTE-Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI), Thiruvananthapuram. Before joining JNTBGRI he had been Senior Scientist with CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Jammu. He had been the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 7th International Society for Development of Natural Products (ISDNP) Symposium held at AUUP, Noida. His major areas of research are Ethnobotany, Ethnomedicne, Ethnopharmacology, Plant Breeding and Cytogenetics. Dr. Varughese George, Ph.D., FNSE, FABMS, FRSC (UK), is the Director of Amity Institute of Phytochemistry & Phytomedicine, Thiruvananthapuram. Formerly he had been Scientist G (Director Grade) and Head, Phytochemistry and Phytopharmacology Division of KSCSTE-Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI), Thiruvananthapuram. Prior to this he had been Senior Scientist with CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Jammu/Srinagar. He had been the Organizing Secretary of the 7th International Society for Development of Natural Products (ISDNP) Symposium held at AUUP, Noida. His major areas of research are Phytochemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Ethnomedicine and Ethnopharmacology.
