Neglected and Underutilized Crops: Unveiling Potential for Cancer Drug Discovery [Hardcover]

This book comprehensively explores the potential of neglected and underutilized crops in the prevention and treatment of various cancers. It covers crop relevance in disease management, bioavailability, and therapeutic applications. The book is valuable for scientists and researchers in agriculture, biochemistry, nutrition, and medicine.

Dr. Muzafar Ahmad Macha is currently serving as an assistant professor and a Ramalingaswami Fellow at the Watson-Crick Centre for Molecular Medicine, Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) in India. He earned his masters degree in biochemistry from Jamia Hamdard in New Delhi, India. In 2005, he embarked on his doctoral program, focusing on head and neck cancers (HNCs), at the Department of Biochemistry at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, India. In 2011, he joined the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in the USA as a postdoctoral fellow. During his tenure, he established an independent HNC Research Group and conducted research on the identification of deregulated signaling pathways and novel therapeutic targets. Following his promotion to Assistant Professor in the BMB at UNMC, he developed numerous in vitro cell lines, genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) of HNSCC, and unique therapeutic modalities. Dr. Macha has published his work in many peer-reviewed journals. He has also received numerous awards, including the Young Investigator Award, the scholarship award, Scholar-in-Training award, Best performance Stipend Award for the years 2012 and 2013, the Gita Mittal award/Gold medal for the best basic cancer research in Ph.D. from AIIMS, New Delhi, and a Gold medal for his master's degree from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. More recently, he has been honored with two prestigious fellowships: the Ramalingaswami Fellowship and the Ramanujan Fellowship from the Government olã¸