Dr Imran Ali obtained his M.Sc. (1986) and Ph.D. (1990)degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. Atpresent, he is working as a Scientist in the National Institute ofHydrology, Roorkee, India. His research areas of interest are thechiral analysis of biologically and environmentally active chiralcompounds, and metal ion speciation using chromatographic andcapillary electrophoresis techniques. He also has expertise inwater quality and wastewater treatment methodologies. Dr Ali is theauthor or co-author of more than 70 journal articles, book andencyclopedia chapters, and of a book entitled Chiral Separationsby Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies, published byMarcel Dekker, Inc., in New York. Dr Ali has been awarded a'Khosla Research Award - 1987' by The IndianInstitute of Technology, Roorkee, India, for work on the chiralresolution of amino acids. He is a life member of the IndianScience Congress Association.
Professor Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein is a Principal Scientistand Head of the Pharmaceutical Analysis and Drug DevelopmentLaboratory at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre,Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is the author or co-author of over 500refereed journal articles, 30 book chapters and 270 conferencepresentations. He is the author of six books, including ChiralSeparation by Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies(Marcel Dekker, Inc.) and The Impact of Stereochemistry on DrugDevelopment and Use (John Wiley&Sons, Ltd). He is amemberof the Editorial Board of several journals, including Talanta,Chirality, Biomedical Chromatography, Analytical Letters,Talanta and Chromatographia.
Professor Aboul-Enein is a member of the World Health Organization(WHO) advisory panel on international pharmacopeia andpharmaceutical preparations, and he is a Fellow of the RoyalSociety of Chemistry (UK). He received his B.Sc. degree (1964) inpharmacy and pharmaceutical chemistry from Cairo University, Cairo,Egypt, and his M.Sc. (1969) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees inpharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry from the University ofMississippi, Oxford, USA. Professor Aboul-Enein's currentresearch interests are in the field of pharmaceutical andbiomedical analysis and drug development, with a special emphasison chiral chromatography, ion-selective electrodes and otherseparation techniques.
