Mittal (PhD 1967, U. of Notre Dame) is M.N. SAHA dist. prof., Bhabha Atomic Rsrch. Ctre. (BARC), India (2010). He was Raja Ramanna Fellow, Dept. of Atom. En., India (2006-10); dist. guest prof., IIT, Bombay; hon. prof., U. of Pune; vis. prof., U. of Heidelberg, Germany, and Osaka U., Japan. He was the Director , Chemistry and Isotope Group, BARC, Trombay, and hon. prof., JNCAR, Bangalore. He did his postdoc. work at UCLA, and has published 350 research papers. He is a fellow of INSA, Ind. Acad. of Scs., and Maharashtra Acad. of Scs. He was President., Natl. Acad. of Scs., India, & President, Ind. Chemical Soc. Honours include: Humboldt Res. Award; Sr. JSPS Award; Platinum Jubilee Lecture Award; Ind. Science Congress; INSA Golden Jubilee Medal; NR Dhar Memorial Medal, NAS; Goyal Gold Medal, Kurukshetra U.; Lifetime Achvmt Award, Ind. Chemical Soc., 2008; Lifetime Achvmt Gold Medal, Chemical Res. Soc. of India. Awarded National Awarded" PadmaShree" by the President of India (2003)

Krishnaswamy is EX- director, Natl. Inst. of Nutrition, Hyderabad, and past president, Nutrition Society of India (NSI). Her work on the prevention of cancer by turmeric highlights the role of malnutrition in cancer and on antimutagens and anticarcinogens in Indian diets. Her awards include: Dr. VN Patwardhan Prize; Dr. Kamala Menon Medical Res. Award, Internal Medicine; Shakuntala amir chand ward; Basant Devi Amirchand ,all 4 of ICMR, Glaxo oration, INSA; Chopra, IPS; BC Guha, IASc; Sita Mahalakshmi Memorial Orations; Best Medical Person Award, AP Akademi of Sciences; SG Srikantia Memorial Lecture Award, NSI; ASTC-Eminent Women Scientist Award; Cert. of Excellence, Indian Medical Assoc.; and Dr. Rajammal P. Devadas Annual Oration Award, Avinashilingam Deemed Univ., Honoured as eminent pharmacologist by IPS,Ramachandran oration of NFI She is fellow of several academies including IUNS.In 2022, she received the"living legend "from IUNS.

Prof. Mehmet Öztürk completed his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University (Turkey) and his PhD at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Paris XI University (France). He become Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School (USA), Research Director at INSERM (France) and Professor at Bilkent University (Turkey). His seminal research work is on genetic causes of human cancer, including inherited and carcinogen-induced genetic mutations causing childhood cancers and liver cancer, respectively. His high impact research, including over 100 articles, referenced more than 9100 times (H-factor: 44), and nearly 10 patents, have made him a world known scientist. Prof. Öztürk was presented with the ‘Cecile Cerveux Cancer Award’ in France. He also received ‘Golden Mortar Award’ and ‘TÜBİTAK-TWAS Science Award’ in Turkey. The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics that he created at Bilkent University received ‘Vehbi Koç Award’. Prof. Öztürk is an elected member to several science academies including EMBO, TWAS and Turkish Academy of Sciences.