Ashok Kumar Pandurangan is an Associate Professor working (August 2017 onwards) in the School of Life Sciences, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Vandalur, Chennai, India. Recently, he has been listed three times as one of the Top 2% of Scientists (2020-2022) in the field of Oncology and Toxicology by Stanford University, USA. . He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Madras, Chennai, India, from 2006-2011. Later, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Cancer Research, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (California, USA), in the field of S1PLyase deficiency in colitis-associated cancer. Then he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Universiti of Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Malaysia. Further, he worked as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He published over 65 research and reviewed articles in peer-reviewed journals 3 books, and 23 book chapters. He received a Teachers Associateship Research Excellence (TARE) grant from SERB, India, in 2018 and several grants in Malaysia.