Ghias-ud-Din

Professor
Chemical Science
University of Peshawar
Pakistan

Professor Chemistry
Biography

Ghias- Ud- din is Professor of chemistry at University of Peshawar.He completed his B. Sc.  (Chemistry),M. Sc. (Organic Chemistry), University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan and Ph. D. (Organic Chemistry 1995), HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi Pakistan. Thesis Title: “Chemical Studies on the Constituents of Azadirachta Indica A. Juss.” He worked as  AIST-ITIT- Japan (Guest Research Fellow, Shikoku National Industrial Research Institute, Takamatsu, Japan,Research Associate, HEJ Research Institute of chemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan,  Senior Research Associate, HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, eaching Assistant and Research Coordinator: Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, Stroke Research EPC Lab.533 HMRC, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2S2, Canada. He got Research Productivity Award-2014 (Pakistan Council for Science and Technology) 95 Research Publications,PhD Theses supervised 09.M. Phil. Theses supervised 05 M. Phil,M. Sc. Research theses supervised 40.

Research Intrest

Isolation and synthesis of new pharmaceutical compounds from natural sources such as traditional medicinal herbs/plants, marine organisms, and microorganisms to develop biosynthesis of natural products and microbial transformations of bioactive natural products and determine their structure-activity relationship using by various analytical/chromatographic techniques; such as column chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography (GC) and thin/thick layer chromatography (TLC), Bio-gel column chromatography.

List of Publications
Rauf A, Uddin G, Khan H, Raza M, Zafar M, Tokuda H. Anti-tumour-promoting and thermal-induced protein denaturation inhibitory activities of β-sitosterol and lupeol isolated from Diospyros lotus L. Natural product research. 2016 May 18;30(10):1205-7.
Rauf A, Saleem M, Uddin G, Siddiqui BS, Khan H, Raza M, Hamid SZ, Khan A, Maione F, Mascolo N, De Feo V. Phosphodiesterase-1 inhibitory activity of two flavonoids isolated from Pistacia integerrima JL stewart galls. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2015 Apr 5;2015.

Global Scientific Words in Chemistry