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Born on 31st December, 1944, Dr Khurana is presently the Director, Central Potato Research Institute and Project Co-ordinator, All India Potato Improvement Project. He is a widely traveled, eminent plant virologist having over 30 years of research experience in potato crop. Having a distinguished academic record, Dr Khurana had post-doctoral research work in Japan and USA. He has also served as CIP/FAO consultant and has guided several Ph.D students, organized/coordinated a number of training courses, seminars/conferences and contributed more than 150research articles/reviews/book chapters, etc. besides being author/editor of many research bulletins and five books. He has also been the editor of journals of various other professional societies. He is the founder member of Indian Potato Association and has served it is various capacities. He is a recipient of several awards and honours like IPS Mundkur Memorial Award/Gold Medal for his work in the field of immuno-diagnostics, CPRI (ICAR) Golden Jubilec-Outstanding Achievement Award, Dr S. Ramanujam Memorial (Lecture) Award, Best Scientist award of the year 2002 by National Environment Science Academy, Bharat Excellence Award, etc. he is a distinguished Fellow of various professional societies including that of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi.

Shyam Kumar Pandey is Reader in Archaeology in the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Dr. H.S. Gour University, Sagar.