Dr. D. A. Bhiwgade completed his doctoral research on mammalian embryology in 1973 and then received the postdoctoral degree of DSc in 1989 for his research in mammalian embryology, endocrinology, and male contraception. With more than four decades of involvement in academics and research, he attained superannuation as the Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at the Padmashree D.Y. Patil University, Belapur Navi Mumbai, India.
Dr. Sasikumar Menon is the director of the Institute for Advanced Research in Interdisciplinary Sciences at Sion, Mumbai, India. He is associated with Ramnarain Ruia College as the associate professor in the Department of Pharma Analytical Sciences. He has more than a hundred research papers in different peer-reviewed journals and has an H index of 19.