Biography
Yadav has completed his PhD from M.S.University, Baroda and postdoctoral studies at Rice University, Houston, USA. He was the director of the prestigious Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad for over a period of 9 years and presently is serving as CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow at the same Institute a premier scientific research organization. He has published more than 1050 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. He received several prestigious awards and honors for his excellent contributions as a research scientist. A few are listed below: CSIR Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in the year 1991 for his versatile and potential research ideas in the area of Organic Chemistry and its applications. Fellow of the world Academy of Science (FTWAS) from the Academy of Science for Developing worlds Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (FNASc) in the year 1993, Fellow of Indian National Academy of Sciences (FNA) in the year 1998 and Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc) in the year 2010, for his overall scientific achievements. Highest honor as Laureate of the 22nd Khwarizmi International Award, IROST-UNESCO, Iran in the year 2008 from the President of Iran, for his outstanding scientific contributions for the overall benefit of the society.
Research Interest
Chemistry of Natural Products. Synthesis of Pheromones and Plant growth regulators. Enantiomerically pure compounds from Natural Products and via asymmetric synthesis. Development of new Synthetic methods and reagents. Synthetic Drugs
Biography
Prof. Mahmoud Soliman (B. Pharm., M. Pharm., PhD) is the Dean and Head of School of Health Sciences, UKZN, Westville Campus, and the Head and principal investigator of Molecular Modelling and Drug Design Laboratory. Soliman has joined the School in 2011 after completing his postgraduate degrees (MPhil/PhD - Oct. 2009) at the University of Bath, United Kingdom in field of Molecular Modeling, computational chemistry and drug design, under supervision of Prof. Ian Williams. Prof. Soliman is the "Editor-in-Chief" of the journal of Organic and Bimolecular Simulations (JOBS), published by Science Publisher, USA, and editor of Journal of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Journal of Drug Design and Research. Soliman is also academic visitor at the University of Bath, UK, collaborating with Prof. Ian Williams' lab.
Research Interest
Soliman's research mainly focuses on studying of biomolecular systems and drug-protein interactions at molecular level, see the full research scope here and publications here.
Biography
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Research Interest
Oxidative stress, in particular, elucidation of mechanisms of action of chemicals and fractions obtained from plants used in indigenous traditional medicines