Bibekanand MallickDr. Bibekanand Mallick is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Life Science at National Institute of Technology Rourkela, serving since 2009. He has excellent academic career from reputed alma mater viz. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagur, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata and Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health in United States. He leads 'RNAi and Functional Genomics' Laboratory at National Institute of Technology Rourkela and conducting wide-range of research on various aspects of non-coding RNAs that include miRNAs, piRNAs, lncRNA as well as their crosstalks (ceRNAs) and their regulatory impacts on diseases like cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. He has published several research papers in highly reputed international journals and books from publishers of repute like Oxford and Springer-Verlag in his academic career. Recently, he has been honored as Member of National Academy of Science, India (MNASc) due to his significant augmentation to understand the dark matter of RNA world. Read More Read Less