Bacteriophage Therapy Beyond Antibiotics

Dr. Pankaj Kumar completed his master’s and doctorate degrees at the Gurukula Kangri Vishawavidyalaya, Haridwar, Uttarakhand (India). He has 13+ years of teaching and research experience. His research interests and expertise are rhizosphere microbiology and agri- nanotechnology. He has published more than 75 papers/book chapters in national and international reputed journals and books. He has edited seven books, Rhizosphere Engineering (2022), Macrophomina phaseolina: Ecobiology, Pathology and Management (2023) published by Academic Press (Elsevier), Multifunctional Microbial Biosurfactants (2023), Nanofertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture (2025), Nanofertilizers in Agriculture (2025) published by Springer  Nature,  Microbial  Oxidative Enzymes: Biotechnological Applications (2023) and Artificial Intelligence in Microbiology (2025) published by De Gruyter, Germany. He is also a co-author of An Objective Compendium on Food Science (Brillion Publishing, India, 2022). He is a life member of the Association of Microbiology of India (AMI), New Delhi, and the Indian Science Congress, Kolkata (West Bengal), and serves as a reviewer and editorial board member of several national and international reputed journals. Currently, Dr Pankaj is associated with the Department of Botany and Microbiology, H.N.B. Garhwal University (A Central University), Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India.

Dr. Ramesh Chandra Dubey is a professor, the former director (Research and Development Cell), ex-Dean-Research, ex-Dean (faculty of Life Sciences), ex-Dean (Medical Science and Health) and the former head of the Department of Botany and Microbiology, Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar, Uttarakhand (India). He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the internationally renowned Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (India). He has 37+ years of teaching and research experience in the field of agricultural microbiology and biotechnology. He has published more than 220 research papers in the National and International Journals. His Google Citation Index is 7683 till date. He has authored 7 books and co-edited 14 books under different subjects such as agriculture, microbiology, and biotechnology. In 2022, Dr. Dubey published a book, Vedic Microbiology with Motilal Banarsidas International, New Delhi (India). Dr. Dubey is a life member and fellow of the Indian Botanical Society, Indian Phytopathological Society, and International Society for Conservation of Natural Resources. He also previously served as the chairman of the Institutional Animal Ethical Committee (IAEC) for 6 years (2015–2021) and the councillor of the Indian Botanical Society for 3 years (2011–2013).