Bioactive Nutrients as Dietary Supplements and Therapeutic Agents

Dr Asma Saeed is Chief Scientific Officer at the Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and the Institute for Technical Chemistry, Germany. Her research interests include the production of organic acids and the isolation and purification of flavonoids as nutraceuticals. She has been honored with prestigious awards and published 60 scientific papers and two books. Additionally, she holds three patents and has 20 industrial processes in her credit.Dr Saeed Iqbal Zafar has served as the Director General at the Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research. He earned his PhD in Plant Sciences from the University of Alberta, Canada, and his research focuses on mushroom technology and the production of phytochemicals of nutraceutical importance. He received fellowships from the National Research Council Canada, the University of Osaka, Japan and the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Dr Saeed holds two patents, has authored 12 research reports, developed and leased out six processes, and has published 100 scientific articles.