Prof. T. Pullaiah is a former Professor at the Department of Botany at Sri Krishnadevaraya University in Andhra Pradesh, India, where he has taught for more than 35 years. He was President of Indian Botanical Society (2014), President of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (2013). He was awarded the Panchanan Maheshwari Gold Medal, the Prof. P.C.Trivedi Medal, the Dr. G. Panigrahi Memorial Lecture award of the Indian Botanical Society and Prof. Y.D. Tyagi Gold Medal of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy. He was also a member of Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Professor Pullaiah received his PhD from Andhra University, India, attended Moscow State University, Russia, and worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow during 1976–1978.
Dr. Shreesh Ojha is a Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE. He holds a doctoral degree in Pharmacology from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India following postdoctoral from College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. He also worked as Research Scientist in Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Development division with a pharmaceutical company, Ranbaxy Research Laboratories. His expertise spans from preclinical to clinical pharmacology across industries to academia. His research interest is natural products pharmacology and cannabinoid signaling in neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases.