Professor Subhash Chandra Parija is the Vice-Chancellor of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, A Deemed-to-be University at Pondicherry, and is the former Director of the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India. With almost 45 years of teaching and research experience in the field of medical microbiology, Prof. Parija is a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) expert and has been consulted to draft guidelines on preventing foodborne parasites. He was on the MD examination boards at Colombo University, Sri Lanka; Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; and the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He received a D.Sc. from Madras University for his contributions in the field of medical parasitology. . He has one granted patent, one published patent, 23 copyrights, and one technology transfer. Prof Parija authored /edited 19 books, including the most popular “Textbook of Medical Microbiology &Immunology ”, “Effective Medical Communication, The A,B,C,D, E of it”; & “Textbook of Parasitic Zoonoses “ all published by Springer. He has published more than 430 papers in the reputed national and international journals. Dr. Shivaprakash M Rudramurthy is working as a Professor at the Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. Prof. Shivaprakash has worked diligently in the field of medical Mycology for the last 21 years, being involved in the research activities on fungi and fungal infections, training personnel in this speciality, providing service of identification of the fungi, supplying cultures for teaching, research, diagnostic activities and conducting national level external quality assurance program for mycology. He has written sixteen chapters and has more than 280 publications .He is presently a core member of the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) on antifungals
