Editorial Board Member - JOO

UMA D PALANISAMY
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Biomedical Science
Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Monash Universtiy
Malaysia
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Uma D Palanisamy is presently working as a Associate Professor in Department of Biomedical Science at Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Monah University, Malaysia. Prior to joining Monash, she was in SIRIM for a period of 17 years, where she has carried out extensive work to aid natural product research in Malaysia. Her research expertise are in screening local natural resources for its cosmeceutical, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical content and to develop medium-throughput screening techniques particularly to identify antioxidants, antipsoriatics, antiarthritics, antiglycemic, antifungals - to name a few. She was also attached to a Japanese Pharmaceutical company for a period of six months where she purified antifungals and immunomodulant bioactives from soil microorganisms. She pursued her PhD at Cambridge on a project designing affinity ligands for the selective binding of the glycoprotein pharmaceuticals. She presented her work orally at the 12th International Conference on Affinity Techniques in Kalmar, Sweden in 1997 and was awarded First Prize in the Young Scientists section.
Other Editorial Board Members - JOO

ZAYDE ALCICEK
Faculty of Marine Sciences and Technology
Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Turkey

CARLOS ALBERTO NOGUEIRA DE ALMEIDA
Department of Paediatric Nutrition
Brazilian Association of Nutrology
University of Ribeirao Preto
Brazil

Charles C. Muscoplat
Department of Food Science and Nutrition
University of Minnesota
United States

WINNIE CHAN
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
United Kingdom

KONSTANTINOS KANTARTZIS
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology
Nephrology, Vascular Disease and Clinical Chemistry
University of Tübingen
Germany

ALI RAFE
Research Institute of Food Science & Technology
Iran

OMAR A. OBEID
Department of Nutrition and Food Science
American University of Beirut
Lebanon