Cardioprotective Plants

Prof. T. Pullaiah is a former Professor at the Department of Botany at Sri Krishnadevaraya University in Andhra Pradesh, India, where he has taught for more than 35 years. He was President of Indian Botanical Society (2014), President of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (2013). He was awarded the Panchanan Maheshwari Gold Medal, the Prof. P.C.Trivedi Medal, the Dr. G. Panigrahi Memorial Lecture award of the Indian Botanical Society and Prof. Y.D. Tyagi Gold Medal of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy. He was also a member of Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Professor Pullaiah received his PhD from Andhra University, India, attended Moscow State University, Russia, and worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow during 1976-1978.

Dr. Shreesh Ojha is a Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE. He holds a doctoral degree in Pharmacology from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India following postdoctoral from College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. He also worked as Research Scientist in Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Development division with a pharmaceutical company, Ranbaxy Research Laboratories. His expertise spans from preclinical to clinical pharmacology across industries to academia. His research interest is natural products pharmacology and cannabinoid signaling in neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases.

教授 T. Pullaiah 是印度安得拉邦斯里克里希納德維拉亞大學植物學系的前教授，擁有超過 35 年的教學經驗。他曾擔任印度植物學會會長（2014 年）及印度被子植物分類學會會長（2013 年）。他獲得了潘查南·馬赫斯瓦里金獎、P.C. 特里維迪教授獎、印度植物學會的 G. 潘尼格拉希紀念講座獎以及印度被子植物分類學會的 Y.D. 泰亞吉金獎。他也是國際自然保護聯盟（IUCN）物種生存委員會的成員。Pullaiah 教授在印度安得拉大學獲得博士學位，曾就讀於俄羅斯莫斯科國立大學，並於 1976 至 1978 年期間擔任博士後研究員。

博士 Shreesh Ojha 是阿聯酋阿布達比大學醫學與健康科學學院的藥理學與治療學教授。他在印度全國醫學科學院獲得藥理學博士學位，並在美國亞利桑那大學醫學院完成博士後研究。他曾在製藥公司 Ranbaxy Research Laboratories 的臨床藥理學與藥物開發部門擔任研究科學家。他的專業涵蓋從臨床前到臨床藥理學，跨足產業與學術界。他的研究興趣包括天然產品藥理學及大麻素信號傳導在神經退行性疾病和心血管疾病中的應用。