Bechan Sharma is presently working as a Professor and Head, Department of Biochemistry, and Dean, 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 and CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow, India. 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 number of Awards/ Honors and successfully completed numerous important Academic/ Administrative Assignments. He has 36 years of teaching / research experience. He has carried out several research projects and published over 250 research papers including book chapters, molecular methods in peer reviewed International and National Journals of repute. He has one US patent on HIV-1 genome structure based antiHIV-1 drugs design to his credit. He has supervised 18 PhDs and 7 PDFs. He is 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 Member Editorial Board of over 150 peer-reviewed International and National Journals. He has been acting as 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 USA for about four years and visited different reputed institutions at 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 with ICMR’s Senior Scientist Fellowship 2014-15 in Biomedical Sciences under Indo-USA joint research programme to work at NIEHS-NIH, NC, USA with Prof. Samuel Wilson on DNA repair. Recently Prof. Sharma has been included as a Life Member in the World Virology Society-Sweden and in an Indo-Japanese research initiative towards eradication of HIV/AIDS in India. Prof. B. Sharma is a Fellow of Academy of Environmental Biology (AEB) and Bioved Research Society (BRS).