Santiago Mas-Coma is Chair Professor of Parasitology at the Parasitology Department, University of Valencia, Spain, and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Fascioliasis and Its Snail Vectors and the FAO-United Nations Reference Centre for Parasitology. He is the former president of the International Federation for Tropical Medicine, and the former president of the European Federation of Parasitologists and of the Spanish Society of Parasitology. He is a WHO Expert Member and was a WHO-STAG Committee member (Geneva) and adviser of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, Vienna). He holds the title of Specialist in Microbiology and Parasitology and has been the principal investigator of 59 competitive projects, with more than 450 articles, 18,216 citations, an average of 46.67 citations/article (WoS), and an h-index of 63-77, according to sources. He is the most cited author in Parasitology in Spain, and is included in the top 0.2% of the most influential scientists in the world. His scientific relationships and research collaborations cover almost all countries in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, with 48 years of experience on neglected infectious diseases in developing countries, including helminthiases, protozooses, and vectors, mainly food-borne trematodiases. He is a member/honorary member of numerous societies, international/national agencies, editorial boards, and evaluation committees. He has been honored with many prizes and awards.
Timir Tripathi is a professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Zoology, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. He holds a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research focuses on protein–substrate interactions, conformational dynamics, and understanding the roles of non-catalytic domains in regulating the catalytic activity of proteins. His primary focus is studying the structural and functional characteristics of drug target proteins from Fasciola gigantica to develop novel therapeutic strategies. He has received several awards, such as the NASI-Prof. B.K. Bachhawat Memorial Young Scientist Lecture Award (2020), the ISCB-Young Scientist Award (2019), and the ICMR-Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize (2018). He is an Associate Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and a member of the National Academy of Sciences India, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Royal Society of Biology (UK). He has secured several research grants from national and international funding agencies. He has authored over 150 publications, including research papers, reviews, and editorial articles in leading international journals. He has edited six books and authored two textbooks. Currently, he is the Senior Editor for Critical Insights in Biophysics (T&F), Editor of the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (Elsevier), Associate Editor of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and is a member of editorial boards of several esteemed international journals.
María Dolores Bargues is Chair Professor of Parasitology; Director of the Molecular Biology of Parasites and Vectors Research Unit at the Parasitology Department, University of Valencia, Spain; Deputy Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Fascioliasis and Its Snail Vectors and the FAO-United Nations Reference Centre for Parasitology; and is the former president of the Spanish Society of Tropical Medicine and International Health. She has more than 30 years of experience with vector-borne parasitic diseases, mainly fascioliasis, but also schistosomiasis, malaria, leishmaniasis, and Chagas disease. She is a member of several international/national networks, with expertise in leading projects of the European Commission and other national/international agencies. She is the author/co-author of more than 170 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and more than 30 book chapters, especially on Fasciola and snail vectors of fascioliasis and schistosomiasis, and also vector species of triatomine bugs, ticks, culicid mosquitos, and sandflies. Her international impact includes an h index of 47 and 7,768 citations, with an average of 52.83 citations/article (WoS) (March 2025). She has received prizes and awards for her outstanding results in research. She is the second most cited author in Parasitology in Spain, and she has been included in Q1 of the most relevant female scientists in Spain and is among the top 2% of the most influential scientists in the world.
