Dr. Aparup Das, is the current Director of ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre, Sri Vijaya Puram (Port Blair), Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Previously he was the Director of ICMR-National Institute of Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur and ICMR-Centre for Research in Medical Entomology in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Dr Das is a population geneticist and molecular evolutionary biologist by training and has brought extensive experience on genomics and DNA sequence analyses on malaria to understand malaria epidemiology in India and Africa. Over about 20 years of his research on molecular epidemiology of malaria in India and Cameroon and Nigeria (Africa), Dr. Das and his research group had unravelled several interesting features of the malaria parasites, drug resistance, mixed species infections, population dynamics of mosquito vectors, host susceptibility of malaria and pharmacogenomics related to malaria and tuberculosis, Sickle Cell Disease and drug metabolism in human.Dr. Das has been conferred with many national and international awards and involved in several research projects on both Drosophila and malaria models. He has authored more than 220 publications in genomic epidemiology, and supervised as many as 14 Ph. D. and more than 70 Master theses. The impactful journals in which he has authored are Nature, The Lancet, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, The Lancet Global Health, British Medical Journal, Trends in Parasitology, among others. He has organized several national and international workshops/meetings including two 15-days Global Exchange Lecture Courses on malaria genomics in 2010 and 2017 funded by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Germany. He is also serving as academic editor of many high impact international journals including nature-Scientific Reports, PLoS One, BioMed Research International, Frontier group of Journals and many more, and regularly review manuscripts of several prestigious national and international journals of repute. As per the yearly Sanford University (USA) and Elsevier survey he is also included in the top 2% scientists across the globe from last two years.