 | Anti-Viral Metabolites from Medicinal Plants This reference work covers general concepts of anti-viral metabolites, classifications, ethnopharmacology, chemistry, clinical and preclinical studies focusing on different medicinal plants against various types of viral infections. Various plants have been used in medicine since ancient times and are known for their strong therapeutic effects. The book will describe potential antiviral properties of medicinal plants against a diverse group of viruses, and provide an insight to the potential plants possess for broad-spectrum antiviral effects against emerging viral infections. The book aims to target a broad audience including virologists, molecular biologist, microbiologist and scientists working with natural products as well as researchers, students, healthcare experts involved in pharmaceutical and medical field.Dr. Dilipkumar Pal (M. Pharm, Ph.D, F.I.C., Chartered Chemist, Post Doct. in Australia) is now working in the post of Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guru Ghasidash Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Bilaspur, C.G., 495 009, India. He received his master and PhD degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and performed post doctoral research as an "Endeavour research fellow" at the University of Sydney, Australia. His areas of research interest include "Phytochemical and pharmacological evaluation of indigenous plants" and 'Natural Biopolymers'. He has published 177 full research papers in peer-reviewed national and international scientific journals and contributed 117 abstracts in different national and international conferences, mostly related to his specialisation. He has written 2 books and 65 book chapters and edited 08 books published by reputed international publishers. His research publications have acquired a highly remarkable cited recordin Scopus and Google Scholar (H-Index: 44; i-10-index 103, citation 6312 till date). During Dr. Pal's 21 year research-oriented teaching profession he has received 13 prestigious national and international professional awards. He has guided 8 Ph. D and 40 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, Dr Pal has been included in World's top 2 % Indian Scientist (Pharmacy and Pharmacology) (as released by Stanford University, USA). |
