Dr. Bechan Sharma is presently working as a Professor and Head, of the Department of Biochemistry, and Dean, of the Faculty of Science, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India. He has completed his higher education such as B.Sc. (Honours)-1980; M.Sc. (Biochemistry)-1982 and Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1988) from BHU-Varanasi. The areas of his research interest include Molecular Biology of HIV/AIDS, Free radical Biology, Tropical Diseases (Filariasis/Malaria), Enzyme technology, Drug development, and Biochemical Toxicology. He has received several Awards/ Honors and completed numerous important Academic/ Administrative Assignments. He has 36 years of teaching/research experience. He has carried out several research projects and published over 230 research papers including book chapters, and molecular methods in peer-reviewed International and National Journals of repute. He has one US patent on HIV-1 genome structure-based antiHIV-1 drug design to his credit. He has supervised 18 PhDs and 7 PDFs. He is a member/life member of several national/international scientific societies and attended numerous symposia/conferences in India and abroad. He is Chief-Editor/Associate Editor/Executive Editor and a Member Editorial Board of over 150 peer-reviewed International and National Journals. He has been acting as an honorary reviewer for over 200 International/National scientific journals. His 7 books have been published by international publishers and 2 are in print. He has worked as a visiting scientist in the USA for about four years and visited different reputed institutions in Italy, France, Iran, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Germany, and Brazil to complete collaborative research projects in Molecular Virology and Drug resistance. Prof. Sharma has been awarded ICMR’s Senior Scientist Fellowship 2014-15 in Biomedical Sciences under Indo-USA joint research program to work at NIEHS-NIH, NC, USA with Prof. Samuel Wilson on DNA repair. Recently Prof. Sharma has been included as a member of the World Virology Society-Sweden and an Indo-Japanese research initiative toward the eradication of HIV/AIDS in India. Prof. B. Sharma is a Fellow of the Academy of Environmental Biology (AEB) and the Beloved Research Society (BRS).