KV Venkatesh is a professor of Chemical Engineering in IIT Bombay. He got his B. Tech from chemical engineering from IIT Madras and later he pursued his PhD at Purdue University, USA. He joined the faculty of IIT Bombay in 1993 after his PhD.

A recent trend in predictive pharmacology and toxicology is the assessment of beneficial and deleterious effects of chemicals from their computed descriptors.

Computational approaches continue to increase in capability and applicability in the area of predictive toxicology and plays a vital role in the assessment of safety/toxicity of chemicals.

Indira Ghosh is working in JNU since 2008 as Dean& Professor to steer the School of Computational & integrative sciences, which deals with computational approach to Biology, Chemistry, and Economics etc.

Application of the predictive toxicology approaches may significantly increase the yield in drug discovery and development.