Farkhod Eshboev is a senior researcher at the S. Yu. Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Biology, National University of Uzbekistan. He received his Master’s degree in Microbiology and Virology from the National University of Uzbekistan. His main research focuses on ELISA, proteins, PCR, Sequence, Fungi, Secondary metabolites, antimicrobials, and anticancer.

Dr. Nilufar Z. Mamadalieva is working as a Leading scientific researcher at the Laboratory of the Chemistry of Glycosides, Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences. After obtaining her master’s degree in chemistry from Fergana State University (Uzbekistan) in 1998, she completed her doctorate at the Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances. Her scientific interests cover all aspects of secondary metabolites in medicinal and food plants. Current investigations include the isolation and chemical characterization of various secondary metabolites (isoprenoids, phenylpropanoids, terpenoids, etc); Biological activities (antioxidant, antimicrobial, cytotoxic, anthelmintic, etc.) of plant components; Structure-activity relationship; Chemotaxonomy; Metabolomics, NMR, UHPLC-ESI-MS-and GC-MS based metabolite profiling of plants. She is a Member of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research, SILAE (Italo-Latin American Society of Ethnomedicine including Asia and Africa), the International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce (INPST) and Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD).

Dr. Pavel A. Nazarov is a Senior Research Scientist at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and an Assistant Professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). He received his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees at Moscow State University. He received training as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA), and worked as a patent examiner at the Russian Patent Office. In 2014 he joined as a Senior Research Scientist at the Belozersky Institute of Moscow State University. He is the PI of several grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and the Russian Science Foundation. He is a member of the Russian Biochemical Society, the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh, the American Society for Microbiology, the Russian Microbiological Society, and the Russian Geographical Society. From 2017 to 2019 he was elected as an American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Young Ambassador for Russia, and he is currently the ASM Country Ambassador for Russia. He is a guest editor for national and international journals such as Bulletin of Russian State Medical University, Pharmaceuticals, Antibiotics, and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. He peer-reviewed manuscripts in such journals as the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Viruses, PLoS One, and Clinical Microbiology Reviews. He is a regularly invited speaker nationally and internationally.

Prof. Dr. Hidayat Hussain obtained his Ph.D. degree in Natural Product and Medicinal Chemistry in 2004. He was a Post Doc fellow from June 2004 to September 2007 at the University of Paderborn Germany and from October 2007 to September 2007 at the University of Maine France. Moreover, he was a group leader in the group of the late Prof. Karsten Krohn (University of Paderborn Germany) from December 2008 to  October 2010. In addition, he also worked as a visiting Professor (visiting Scholar) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA from May 2017 to October 2017. Currently, he is working as a guest Professor at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle Germany. His research interests include the isolation and synthesis of anticancer, antidiabetic, antimalarial, and antimicrobial compounds, and biodiversity and characterization of natural products produced by endophytic microorganisms and plants. Further research interests are asymmetric catalysis of cloadditions, total synthesis of anthrapyran antibiotics, metal catalyzed C-C bond formation, synthesis of macrocycles through microwave synthesis and development of methods for halogenation of natural products. To date, he has authored and co-authored over 340 international publications and given 40 podium lectures at International Conferences. He is a member of the editorial board of several International Journals and also serves as a referee for over 40 international journals.

Prof. Dr. Vladimir L. Katanaev studied biology and biochemistry at Krasnoyarsk State University and Moscow State University, Russian Federation. After arriving in Switzerland, he obtained a doctorate in 2000 at the Institute of Biochemistry of the University of Fribourg, where he worked on intracellular signalling directing chemotaxis in leukocytes. Between 2000 and 2005, he did a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Genetics and Development at Columbia University in New York. It was there that he initiated his research on the Wnt signalling pathway, with Drosophila as a model. From 2005 to 2011, he led a research group at the University of Konstanz (Germany), where he continued his work on this intracellular signalling pathway in the context of animal development but also in carcinogenesis. He also completed his Habilitation in 2010. In 2011, he joined the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology of the University of Lausanne as an associate professor, focusing his research on intracellular signalling in normal and pathological cells, particularly in breast cancer. Combining fundamental and translational research, Vladimir Katanaev has identified several promising molecules—candidates for the development of innovative anti-cancer agents. He joined the Faculty of Medicine of the UNIGE in October 2018, where he was appointed full professor at the Centre for Translational Research in Onco-haematology and at the Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism.

Dilfuza Egamberdieva, Head of the Institute of Fundamental and Applied Research under “TIIAME” National Research University was awarded with the prestigious Prize. 2023 UNESCO-Carlos Finley Prize in Microbiology for her research in the field of plant-microbiome interactions and soil microbiome. Egamberdieva graduated from “Biology” Faculty of the National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek. In 2000 she received a doctorate from Humboldt University of Berlin, “Agriculture and Horticulture” Faculty. Her scientific achievements have been recognized worldwide and she was elected as a member of the Global Youth Academy (GYA) in 2014, the World Academy of Sciences (WAS), and the Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS) in 2021. Currently, with the help of a World Bank-funded project, she is working to establish a school in the field of microbiology.

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