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books and 20 patents. Dr. Bagchi is also a Member of the Society of Toxicology, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Nutrition Research Academy, and Member of the TCE stakeholder Committee of the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH. Dr. Bagchi is the Associate Editors of the Journal of Functional Foods, Journal of the American College of Nutrition, and Archives of Medical and Biomedical Research, and also serving as Editorial Board Member of numerous peer reviewed journals, including Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, Cancer Letters, Food & Nutrition Research, Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, The Original Internist, and other peer reviewed journals.

Samudra Prosad Banik completed his B.Sc. in Microbiology from Calcutta University, India in 2001. Subsequently he did his Masters from the Department of Biophysics & Molecular Biology from the same University in 2003. Thereafter, he obtained his Ph.D. in protein biochemistry and fungal biotechnology from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata in 2009 after qualifying as a Junior Research Fellow in University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test of India. He has been the recipient of travel grant from International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He has been serving as Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Maulana Azad College, Kolkata since 2009. His teaching specialization is Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Protein Biochemistry. He has been the Principal Investigator of one major and one minor research grant awarded by the University Grants Commission, India and the thrust areas of his research interest are 1) Biophysical characterization of glycated proteins and their implications in Type II diabetes and neurodegenerative disorders and 2) Biophysical characterization of industrially important fungal glycosidases in relation to production of cellulosic ethanol. He has authored 27 peer reviewed publications with an average JCR impact factor of more than 3 and has contributed 14 chapters in books. He has successfully mentored one doctoral student till now and numerous Masters' students for their summer internship. He is a Life member of the Biotech Research Society of India and Microbiologists Society, India. He is presently the Head of his department and also a member of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell of his college.