Dr. Muthupandian Saravanan is currently a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Saveetha University, SIMATS, Chennai, India. He has a degree in Microbiology from Madurai Kamaraj University and a Doctorate with Specialization in Medical Microbiology and Nanomedicine from Sathyabama University, India. As a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he studied nano-biomaterials and their biomedical applications. He later worked as Associate Professor, under the United Nation Development Program in Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Mekelle University in Ethiopia. He has published papers in high impact journals such as the Lancet and Nature. He has participated in more than 75 national and international conferences and reviewed of more than 100 international peer-reviewed journals. He has served as guest editor/ co-editor for reputed PubMed and Scopus indexed journals. He has received many fellowships and awards, notably the IET- Nanobiotechnology premium Awards in 2019 and 2020.