Rahman Irfan(Editor) - Inflammation, advancing age and nutrition: research and clinical interventions

Irfan Rahman received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1989. He is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. His research interests include environmental pollutants/tobacco smoke, oxidants, antioxidants, dietary polyphenols/nutraceuticals, inflammaging, redox signaling, cellular senescence, circadian rhythm, regulation of redox-sensitive transcription factors, mechanism of proinflammatory and antioxidant gene expression, and chromatin remodeling-epigenetic changes in chronic inflammatory lung diseases. He won the prestigious Senior Investigator Award from the Oxygen Club of California in 2006. Dr. Rahman is an author of over 200 publications in prestigious internationally renowned peer-reviewed journals, and was invited to write chapters in medical text books and editorials in journals. He has been invited to speak in various domestic and international scientific conferences/workshops/symposia, and to organize scientific sessions and symposia. Dr. Rahman has delivered seminars in academic institutions throughout the world, and served as a consultant in various pharmaceutical industries. Dr. Rahman is an ad-hoc member and advisor on several study section panels of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) /NHLBI/National Cancer Institute, Veterans Administration, National Research Council of Canada, Food and Drug Administration/NIH, and similar panels from several countries. Dr. Rahman is an Associate Editor of Journal of Inflammation, Experimental Lung Research, International Journal of COPD, and past Associate Editor of the European Respiratory Journal. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several international journals such as Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews, American Journal of Physiology: Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Respiratory Research, Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Current Drug Targets: Inflammation and Allergy, Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry, Antioxidants Redox Signaling, Frontiers in Respiratory Pharmacology, Open Respiratory Medicine Journal, and International Journal of Inflammation. He is a full faculty member of Faculty of 1000 Medicine team.

Debasis Bagchi, PhD, MACN, CNS, MAIChE, received his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry in 1982. He is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Houston, College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX. Dr. Bagchi is also the Scientific Advisor of Cepham Inc., Piscataway, NJ. He served as the Senior Vice President of Research & Development of InterHealth Nutraceuticals Incorporated in Benicia, CA, from 1998 till Feb 2011. Dr. Bagchi received the Master of American College of Nutrition Award in early October 2010. He is currently the Chairman of International Society of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods (ISNFF), Immediate Past President of American College of Nutrition, Clearwater, FL, and Past Chair of the Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods Division of Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), Chicago, IL. He is serving as a Distinguished Advisor on the Japanese Institute for Health Food Standards, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Bagchi is a Member of the Study Section and Peer Review Committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD. Dr. Bagchi has 299 papers in peer reviewed journals, 16 books and numerous patents. He has delivered invited lectures in various national and international scientific conferences, organized workshops, and group discussion sessions. Dr. Bagchi is also a Member of the Society of Toxicology, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Nutrition Research Academy, and Member of the TCE stakeholder Committee of the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH. Dr. Bagchi is the Associate Editors of the Journal of Functional Foods and the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, and also serving as Editorial Board Member of numerous peer reviewed journals, including Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, Cancer Letters, Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, The Original Internist, and others.

Dr. Bagchi received funding from various institutions and agencies including the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Nebraska State Department of Health, Biomedical Research Support Grant from National Institute of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Health Future Foundation, The Procter & Gamble Company and Abbott Laboratories.