Seeds: Anti-proliferative Storehouse for Bioactive Secondary Metabolites

Dr. Dilipkumar Pal (M. Pharm, Ph.D, F.I.C., Chartered Chemist, Post Doct. in Australia) is an associate professor, at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guru Ghasidash Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India. He received his master and PhD degree from Jadavpur Universty, Kolkata. He completed his post-doctoral research as “Endeavour research fellow” in University of Sydney, Australia. His areas of research interest include “Phytochemical and pharmacological evaluation of indigenous plants” and ‘Natural Biopolymers’. He has published 175 research papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals,and contributed 117 abstracts in different national and international conferences.He has written 2 books and 90 book chapters and edited 09 books. His research publications have acquired a highly remarkable cited record in Scopus and Google Scholar (H-Index: 53 ; i-10-index 129, citation 11624 till date). Dr. Pal in his 23 years research-oriented teaching profession received 13 prestigious national and international professional awards. He has guided 10 Ph. D and 43 master students for their dissertation thesis. He is the reviewer and Editorial Board member of 27 and 29 scientific journals, respectively. Dr Pal has been working as the Editor-in-Chief of one research journal also. He is the member and life member of many professional organizations. Recently, Recently, Dr Pal has been included in World’s top 2 % Indian Scientist (Pharmacy and Pharmacology) (as released by Stanford University, USA