Dr. Ashok Kumar is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry of All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhopal. His current research interest is understanding the role of non-coding RNAs and sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling in Head and Neck Cancer. He received his PhD degree from Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) Lucknow, India. Then, he received postdoctoral training from UCSFBenioff’s Children’s Hospital Oakland & Research Centre, Oakland, CA, USA. Dr. Ashok Kumar’s major area of research work are Cell & Molecular Biology, Cancer Biology, Immunology & Sphingolipid signaling. He has more than 15 years of research experience. He has published more than 50 research articles and 10 book chapters and he has edited two books. He is a member of several international professional societies including American Association of Cancer Research and Fellow of Royal Society of Biology Dr. Neha Arya is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Translational Medicine Centre, AIIMS Bhopal. Her major interests include design and fabrication of biomaterials for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications with a special focus on in vitro disease models and nanotechnology in cancer therapeutics. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Gargi College, University of Delhi, India and her Master’s degree from South Campus, University of Delhi. She earned her Ph.D degree from Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur following which she went to University of Freiburg, Germany as a Post Doctoral Researcher. She then worked as a DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, AIIMS, Bhopal, India followed by working at the Department of Medical Devices, NIPER Ahmedabad as an Assistant Professor. She has several International publications, book chapters and served as a co-inventor in 2 patents. She has also received several awards and research grants from the Government of India for her research Arpana Parihar is a DST Scientist B at CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal, India. She has 8 years of research and teaching experience and her current research interests include fabrication (Micro/Nano-fabrication) of Bio-devices/bio-medical POCT Devices for early diagnosis of cancer and infectious disease. She has gained significant expertise in the field of 3D cell culture, drug designing, tissue engineering, photodynamic therapy, molecular dynamic simulations, and immunoinformatics.