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Assistant Professor
My area of research is focused on various horizons of plant biochemistry and its application in human health. I have a keen interest in free radical biology, oxidative stress, inflammation, diabetes, cancer biology, therapeutic targets, and medicinal plant based research. My research team work hard for elucidating/verifying various pharmacological properties of traditionally claimed medicinal herbs notably their antioxidant, antiinflammatory, antidiabetic, anti-hyperlipdemic, anti-microbial and anti-cancer potential under well designed experimental set-ups. We employ various in-vitro experiments, in-vivo/animal models and cell lines. Current research highlights the role of enzyme like protein kinases in regulating hyperlipidemia. We try to explore plant compounds that could modulate such kinases and ameliorate diseases associated with hyperlipidemia. We also evaluate the role of various inflammatory markers in the pathology of inflammation and related disorders. In near future our focus will be to validate the effect of various medicinally active herbal compounds on diseased animal models of diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, atherosclerosis, inflammation, cancer and various other human ailments so as to find novel therapeutics against them
11 Research scholars have been awarded PhD under my supervision, 3 PhD research scholars have submitted their thesis, 4 PhD research scholars are ongoing and working on breast cancer. 6 MPhil scholars have already been awarded their degrees. Two PDF (Research Associates) namely Dr Maroof and Dr Wasafa are present working under my mentorship. I am working on many grants received from various funding agencies like DBT, ICMR, CSIR, DST-SERB and DST-J&K. I also published a book entitled: Pharmacogenomics: From Discovery to Clinical Implementation. Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-443-15336-5. Twelve book chapters are also in my credit. 5 students from different colleges and universities of Kashmir valley have done their internship (project work) under my supervision and three of the students have done their work on breast cancer. I also received many awards like Best Researcher Award (International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine) on 12 & 13- Sept-2020 Trichy India (VDGOODTM). Research Excellence Award on paper published in Journal of Inflammation Research-2020 (Institute of Scholars). I am an active member of IAEC Regional Research Institute of Unani Medicine, Srinagar and Member Research Advisory Committee (RAC) Department of Biotechnology, Central University of Kashmir. I have a well trained research team presently working on various cancers like Breast cancer, liver cancer and colorectal cancer. My 4 research scholars are present working on breast cancer to check various apoptotic pathway in Kashmiri population. We are also analysing methylation analysis, protein and mRNA expression.
Clinical Biochemistry