Editorial board
(CHIEF EDITOR)
Dr. Alevcan KAPLAN currently works at the Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, University of Dicle. Her current research interest is geared towards health sciences with a deep-rooted interest in biomedical sciences, biopharmaceutical sciences, bioinformatic, biomedicine, and natural products, medicinal chemistry, in vitro, models, functional foods, complementary and alternative medicines/ traditional medicines, ethnopharmacology, herbal medicines.
Dr. Abdul Bari Shah is a Research Professor at Korea University, specializing in natural products from plants, fungi, and bacteria. He completed his postdoc at the Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University, and holds a PhD in Organic and Natural Product Chemistry from Gyeongsang National University. His expertise includes NMR, LCMS, molecular networking, enzyme kinetics, antioxidant studies, cell culture, and antimicrobial assays. His current research focuses on bioactive small molecules from foods, microbes, probiotics, plants, and fungi, as well as developing dereplication methods and spectral databases. Dr. Shah is dedicated to advancing drug discovery and human health.
Dr. Muhammad Nauman Khan earned his Ph.D. in Botany from Islamia College Peshawar, Pakistan, and is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chakwal, Punjab, Pakistan. He has authored more than 160 peer-reviewed international research articles and 50 book chapters, with publications in leading scientific journals and international publishers, achieving a cumulative journal impact factor exceeding 300. His research focuses on plant ecology, biodiversity conservation, ethnobotany, medicinal plants, climate change, and sustainable natural resource management. Dr. Khan also contributes actively to scholarly publishing as a Subject Editor for Ethnobotany Research and Applications and an Editorial Board Member of the Eurasian Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences and the Bulletin of Biotechnology. He is a lifetime member of the Pakistan Botanical Society (PBS), the Weed Science Society of Pakistan (WSSP), and the Khwarizmi Science Society (KSS).