Parimal Misra, Ph. D, FRSB, FRSC Senior Professor and Chief Scientist, Center for Innovation in Molecular and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Reddy’s Institute of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad: 500046. Cell: 09618949203. E- mail: parimalm@drils.org Former Senior Director, Drug Discovery and Genomics-Proteomics, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, Hyderabad. Prof (Dr.) Parimal Misra is Senior Professor and Chief Scientist, Center for Innovation in Molecular and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Reddy’s Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad. He has done his Bachelors in Chemistry (Hons) and M. Sc in Molecular Biology from Kolkata University. He has done his PhD work in Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India in the area of molecular biology and biochemistry and awarded Ph. D degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 1995. He was a visiting scientist of the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago in the Dept. of Pathology. He worked in the area of transcriptional complex, co-factors, gene-regulation and signal transduction of various transcription factors related to stress induced diabetes and insulin resistance. Dr. Misra worked in Dr. Reddy’s and Dr. Reddy’s Institute of Life Sciences for more than 25 years in the areas of Metabolic Disorder, Inflammation and Genomics-Proteomics. He worked with the PPAR and AMPK group of Dr. Reddy’s as Senior Director, Drug Discovery and Genomics-Proteomics and contributed to put five NCEs in different clinical phases including Balaglitazone (Phase 3B), Ragaglitazar (Phase 3A) and AMPK activator. He has published 48 articles in scientific journals (including Nature Scientific Reports, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Pharmaceuticals and Experimental therapeutics, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets etc.), authored four book chapters and published 10 international and 13 national patents and trained more than 65 drug discovery scientists, Ph. D and post –docs. He has been awarded numerous grants from DBT, DBT-Center of Excellence, DST and a collaborative RO1 grant for NIH-USA with Prof. Janardan K Reddy, Former Chairman, Dept. of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago. He has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2016 and Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (UK) in 2017. Dr. Misra got highly prestigious Chairman Excellence Award from Dr. K. Anji Reddy in 2004 and awarded International Young scientist travel award in Molecular Biology in 1994 by IUBMB (International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology).