Kusal Das
Kusal K. Das is Professor of Physiology and director at the Laboratory of Vascular Physiology and Medicine, Shri B. M. Patil Medical College, BLDE (Deemed to be University), Vijayapur, Karnataka, India. Professor Das is also coordinator of environmental health under UNESCO Chair Life Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia. He was Visiting Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine, University of Leeds (2014–2016). Prof. Das obtained a PhD and a master’s degree in Physiology from the University of Calcutta. His research focuses on experimental hypoxia and cell signaling mechanisms during heavy metal-induced stress and alteration of vascular integrity in both experimental and human models. He invented a modified method of determination of serum vitamin E. He is a fellow in the Royal Society of Biology, UK. He has published more than 100 Scopus papers and authored five books and numerous book chapters