Meet the editors

Professor Farid A. Badria, Ph.D., DSc, leads research projects on developing new therapies for liver and skin disorders and cancer. He was listed among the top 2% of the most-cited scientists in medicinal and biomolecular chemistry in 2019–2022 by Stanford University, USA. He has been a scholar with the Arab Development Fund, Kuwait, ICRO-UNESCO, Chile, and UNESCO Biotechnology, France. Among the awards he has

received are the TWAS Prize for the Public Understanding of Science, the WIPO Gold Medal for the best inventor, the State Outstanding Award in Medicine, the Outstanding Arab Scholar, Kuwait, and the Khawrazmi International Award, Iran. Prof. Badria has more than 270 publications to his credit, including 12 books. He has submitted forty-nine patents, twenty of which have received final certification, and has marketed several pharmaceutical products.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kavitha Palaniappan is the project lead for Health Services Regulation at the Centre of Regulatory Excellence at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. She is currently working on identifying the regulatory gaps based on the new trends in the health services sector. Apart from this, Dr. Palaniappan is also actively involved in multidisciplinary research, including the prevalence of psychosocial illnesses and

their impacts on society, economy, and country. She also researches alternative therapies to enhance sleep, yoga and its health benefits, the toxicity of nanomaterials, exposure measurements and hygiene requirements for nano-titanium dioxide, exposure to nano-silver in mattresses and beddings and their health effects, associations between seasonal patterns, climate variables, and dengue risks in Singapore. She is also a conjoint associate professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
