Scientific Achievements

Scientific Achievements

Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-Chief, Phytochemical Analysis (since January 2010)

Editor

International Journal of Biochemistry & Physiology (since October 2016)

Associate Editor

TANG Journal (since May 2011)

Guest Editor

Special issue of Frontiers in Pharmacology on 'Natural Antimicrobial Peptides: Hope for New Antibiotic Lead Molecules' (2021).

Special issue of Alternative Medicine on ‘Pain Management and Wound Care with Traditional Medicine’ (2017).

Special issue of Medicines on ‘Essential Oils: Chemistry and Bioactivity’ (2016).

Special issue of Evidence Based Complementary and the special issue of Advances in Pharmacological Sciences on ‘Anti-inflammatory, antinociceptive and antipyretic activities of medicinal plants and their constituents’ (2012).

Special issue of 'Natural Product Communications' in honour of Professor Peter G Waterman (2008).

Membership of the editorial/advisory boards

Current:

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology (2018-present)
Pharmaceutical Sciences (2017-present)
Molecules (2017-Present)
Current Trends in Medicinal Chemistry (2016-present)
Current Medicinal Chemistry (2016-present)
Journal of Advances in Phytochemical and Analytical Methods (APAM) (2016-present)
Diversity – An Open Access Biodiversity Journal (2016-present)
Current Trends in Medicinal Chemistry (2016-present)
Scientific Reports, published by the prestigious Nature Publishing Group (2015-present)
International Journal of BioAnalytical Methods & BioEquivalence Studies (IJBMBS) (2015-present)
Journal of Pharmaceutical Microbiology (2015-present)
Chronicles of Pharmacy (2014-present)
iProbe Pharmaceutical Science & Development (2014- present)
Pharmacology and Alternative Medicine Therapeutics (2014-present)
Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Development (2013- present)
BioImpacts (2011-present)
ISRN Chromatography (2011-present)
Journal of Scientific Abstracts (2011-present)
Analytical Chemistry Letters (2010-present)
Free Radicals and Antioxidants (2010-present)
Pharmaceutical Methods (2010-present)
Pharmacognosy Research (2010-present)
PRAVARA Journal of Science and Technology (Feb 2017 – present)
Trends in Phytochemical Research (Feb 2017 – present)
Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy (2010-present)
DARU (2009-present)
International Journal of Phytomedicine (2009-present)
Tripolitana Medical Journal (2009-present)
International Journal of Synthesis and Characterisation (2008-present)
Stamford Pharmaceutical Journal (2006-present)

Past:

Phytochemical Analysis (2006-2009)
Natural Product Communications (2007-2010)
Chromatographia (2008-2013)
The Open Natural Product Journal (2009-2014)
Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative Results (2010-2014)
Pharmacognosy Magazine (2010-2014)

Invited conference speaker and/or session chair

Invited plenary talk, MAPPPS 2020: Medicinal Plants – Present and Perspective Conference, Piatra Neamt, Romania, 12-15 May 2020.
Invited plenary talk, PSE-NPS Conference on Natural Product for Healthy Living, Journalist-Liakat Ali Auditorium, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh, 16-18 January 2020.
Invited plenary talk, Cosmetic and Beauty International Conference 2019, Sustainable Cosmetic & Beauty Innovations, Mae Fah Lung University, Chiang Rai, Thailand, 7-9 October 2019.
Invited plenary talk, Summer School in Phytochemical Analysis (SSPA) 2019 - Current Trends in the Analysis of Medicinal Plants, Ex Aurum Congress Center, Pescara, Italy, 11-13 September 2019.
Invited plenary talk, 1st International Conference on Natural Toxicology & Pharmacology, 7-11 August 2019.
Invited plenary talk, PSE Conference on Natural Products in Drug Discovery and Human Health, Lisbon, Portugal, 28-31 July 2019.
Invited plenary talk, the 10th International Conference on TCM Pharmaceutical Analysis & Annual Meeting & Election of the Council of Specialty Committee of TCM Pharmaceutical Analysis, Shanghai, China, 27-29 June 2019.
Invited plenary talk and chair of scientific sessions, PSE conference on Natural Products in Drug Discovery and Human Health, Lisbon, Portugal, 28-31 July 2019.
Invited plenary talk on “Libyan medicinal plants and their cytotoxic compounds” and chair of scientific sessions PSE Young Scientists’ Meeting 2019 (PSE-YSM2019), Budapest, Hungary, 19-22 June 2019.
Invited keynote talk on “Evidence-based phytotherapy for obesity”, IHMSC 2019, Taylor’s University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 7-8 March 2019.
Chair of a plenary session, 30th International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products and the 10th International Congress on Biodiversity, Athens, Greece, 25-29 November 2018.
Invited talk on “Natural product research at LJMU”, Symposium organised by the Macau China Ethnic Medicinal Industry Association, Macau, China, 19-21 October 2018.
Invited talk on “Let’s get to know Phytochemical Analysis”, Symposium organised by the Macau China Ethnic Medicinal Industry Association, Macau, China, 19-21 October 2018.
Invited plenary talk on “Evidence-based phytotherapy for cancer: An update” Natural compounds in cancer prevention and therapy, 3rd edition: Trends in methods and modelling, Naples, Italy, 4-7 September 2018.
Invited plenary talk on “Evidence-based phytotherapy: Revisiting Ruta chalepensis L.”, Third International Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food (3-ISPMF), Kunming, China, 25-30 August 2018.
Invited plenary talk on ‘Phytochemical research: From traditional to computational phytochemistry’, Phytopharm2018, Zurich, Switzerland, 25-27 June 2018.
Invited plenary talk on ‘Gastrointestinal symptoms and evidence-based phytotherapy’, The International Traditional and Complementary Medicine Congress, Istanbul, 19-22 April 2018.
Invited plenary talk on ‘Ruta chalepensis – from ethnopharmacology to phytochemistry and bioactivity’, International Congress of International Society for Ethnopharmacology (ICISE), Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 13-15 January 2018.
Invited plenary talk on ‘Natural medicines: past, present and future – from traditional medicine to modern drugs’, presented at the ‘Greater Manchester Pharmacy Conference’, held in Adelphi House, Salford University, Salford, on 7 December 2017.
25th Annual GP2A Medicinal Chemistry Conference, Liverpool, 31 August-01 September 2017. Plenary talk: Cytotoxic compounds from the genus Centaurea L. (Asteraceae).
Trends in Natural Products Research - PSE Young Scientists Meeting on Natural Products in Health, Agro-Food and Cosmetics. Lille, France, 28 June-1 July 2017. Plenary talk: Chemopreventive property of some species from the genera Centaurea and Gardenia.
Symposium on Biotechnology of Plant Products, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 19-22 June 2017. Plenary talk: Phytochemical analysis – past, present and future.
The Second Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE)-Phytochemical Society of Asian (PSA)-International Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food, held in Fuzhou, China, 7-10 April 2017. Plenary talk: Chemopreventive phytochemicals.
Invited plenary talk on ‘Natural medicines: past, present and future’, presented at the ‘Pharmacy Conference - Tomorrow's Pharmacy for Today's Patients’, held in Adelphi House, Salford University, Salford, on 26 January 2017.
International Conference on Contemporary Antimicrobial Research, ICCAR 2016, Silchar, Assam, India, 14-17 November 2016. Plenary talk: Screening plants for potential antimicrobial activities: from disc diffusion to 96-well based resazurin assays. Chief-guest of the inaugural session, and chair of a scientific session.
Conference on Scientific Publishing, Macau University, Macau, 28-29 November 2016. Plenary talk: How to publish in scientific journals.
Trends in Natural Products Research - PSE Young Scientists Meeting. Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation. State Research Institute (IUNG-PIB). Al. Królewska 17, Pulawy, Poland, 30 May-2 June 2016. Plenary talk: Chemopreventive phytochemicals.
12th National Symposium with international Participation on ‘Medicinal plants – present and perspectives’, Piatra Neamt, Romania, 06-09 September 2016. Plenary talk: An Overview on the Chemopreventive phytochemicals.
Academy of Pharmaceutical Science (APS) conference, Nottingham, 8-9 October 2015. Keynote speech: Chemopreventive phytochemicals.
International symposium on phytochemicals in medicine and food, Organised the Phytochemical Society of Europe in collaboration with Phytochemical Society of Asia, Shanghai, China, 26-29 June 2015. Plenary speech: A journey of a phytochemist – witnessing the changes in phytochemical research.
The 22nd Conference on Isoprenoids, Prague, Czech Republic, 07-10 September 2014.
Phytochemical Society of Europe Conference on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Pharmacognosy, Piatra Neamt, Romania, 27-30 April 2014.
Joint conference of the PSE and the Austrian Pharmaceutical Society, PSE Young Scientists’ Symposium, Innsbruck, 21-27 July 2013. Keynote speech: Studies on Bangladeshi medicinal plants: combining traditional knowledge to science.
PSE conference, “Potential anticancer compounds from the genus Centaurea”, Naples, 25-28 June 2013.
National Seminar on “Mainstreaming the Medicinal Plant Research in Bangladesh: the Need for an Integrated and Systematic approach”, Khulna University, 26 November 2012.
The 2nd International Conference on “Natural Products in Cancer Prevention and Therapy”, PSE conference, the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, 25-28 June 2013.
National seminar on “Mainstreaming the Medicinal Plant Research in Bangladesh: The Need for an Integrated and Systemic Approach”, Khulna University, 26 November 2012.
International Conference on Herbal Medicine in Delhi, India, 26-28 October 2012.
BIOCOM12 conference in Cadiz, Spain, 9-12 September 2012. Keynote speech: Mangrove Plants from the Sundarbans: traditional uses, chemistry and bioactivity.
12th congress of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology [ISE] - “Traditional Medicines and Globalization – The Future of Ancient Systems of Medicine”, Kolkata, India, February 17-19, 2012.
Trends in Natural Products Conference on Marine Natural Products, PSE Young Scientists Meeting, Crete, Greece, 12-15 June 2011.
Trends in Natural Products Conference, PSE Young Scientists Meeting, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 11-14 April 2010.
International Symposium on Terpenes- Application, Activity and Analysis, 26-29 September 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.
8th International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Compounds, Eskisehir, Turkey, 15-17 June 2009.
Naples Conference, The Phytochemical Society of Europe, 24-27 September 2008.

Invited speaker to universities in the UK and abroad

February 2019: Natural medicine – past, present and future, The University of Hong Kong, China
December 2018: Natural medicine – past, present and future, Worcester University, UK
November 2018: Natural medicine – past, present and future, Keele University, UK
August 2018: Searching for antimicrobial agents from higher plants: from disc diffusion to microtitre resazurin assays, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Wuhan, China.
August 2018: Publishing in peer-reviewed journals – from Editor-in-Chief’s perspective, Jinan University, Guanzhou, China.
August 2018: Searching for antimicrobial agents from higher plants: from disc diffusion to microtitre resazurin assays, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China.
August 2018: Searching for antimicrobial agents from higher plants: from disc diffusion to microtitre resazurin assays, Jinan University, Guanzhou, China.
May 2018: Evidence-based phytotherapy – Ruta chalepensis revisited, Gregori T Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania
January 2018: Natural medicines: past, present and future, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh
January 2018: Natural medicines: past, present and future, East-West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
January 2018: Natural medicines: past, present and future, Bangladesh Centre for Science and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka, Bangladesh
December 2015: Natural products drug discovery: guided or not guided – that is the question, University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia
November 2015: Natural products drug discovery: guided or not guided – that is the question, University of Pharmaceutical and Veterinary Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
November 2015: Chemopreventive phytochemicals, University of Pharmaceutical and Veterinary Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
May 2015: Natural products drug discovery: guided or not guided – that is the question, Universiti Technologi Malaysia, Malaysia
May 2015: Scientific writing, Universiti Technologi Malaysia, Malaysia
October 2014: Natural products drug discovery: guided or not guided – that is the question, University of Keele, England
September 2014: Guided or not guided – that is the question, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
January 2014: Guided or not guided – that is the question, University of Vienna, Austria
November 2012: Literature review in scientific research, Biotechnology Discipline, University of Khulna, Bangladesh
December 2011: Bioassay-guided phytochemical analysis: pros and cons, Biotechnology Discipline, University of Khulna, Bangladesh
September 2011: Bioassay-guided phytochemical analysis: pros and cons, Department of Chemistry, University of Botswana, Botswana
May 2011: Bioassay-guided phytochemical analysis: pros and cons, School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland
March 2011: Guided or not guided- that is the question, Professorial lecture at the University of Wolverhampton, England
March 2009: Sweet sultan and others, Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, Leicester, England
January 2007: An overview on post-graduate Pharmaceutical Sciences programme at Ulster, Department of Pharmacy, State University of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
January 2007: An overview on post-graduate Pharmaceutical Sciences programme at Ulster, Department of Pharmacy, University of Development Alternative, Dhaka, Bangladesh
January 2007: An overview on post-graduate Pharmaceutical Sciences programme at Ulster, Department of Pharmacy, Prime Asia University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
June 2006: Application of NMR in drug discovery and development, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
January 2006: A journey of a phytochemist, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
January 2006: A journey of a phytochemist, Department of Pharmacy, Stamford University, Bangladesh
June 2004: Research and Teaching in Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland
April 2003: Bioactive principles from the genus Polygonum, School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland
July 2002 : Sweet sultan and others, School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland

Member of scientific/advisory committee of international conferences

PSE conference on Natural Products in Drug Discovery and Human Health, Lisbon, 28-31 July 2019.
PSE Young Scientists’ Meeting 2019 (PSE-YSM2019), Budapest, 19-22 June 2019.
Natural compounds in cancer prevention and therapy, 3rdedition: Trends in methods and modelling, Naples, Italy, 4-7 September 2018.
Third International Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food (3-ISPMF), Kunming, China, 25-30 August 2018.
President of the organizing committee of the conference PSE-YSM2018 Liverpool, The Redmonds Building, Liverpool, 2-5 July 2018.
Phytopharm2018, Zurich, Switzerland, 25-27 June 2018.
New & Old Phytochemicals: Their Role in Ecology, Veterinary & Welfare, Villa Maria Hotel, Spa & Congress Center, Contrada PretaroFrancavilla al Mare (Chieti), 66023 Italy, 7-19 September 2017.
Symposium on Biotechnology of Plant Products, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 19-22 June 2017.
Trends in Natural Products Research - PSE Young Scientists Meeting on Natural Products in Health, Agro-Food and Cosmetics. Lille, France, 28 June-1 July 2017.
The Second Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE)-Phytochemical Society of Asian (PSA)-International Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food, will be held in Fuzhou, China, 7-10 April 2017.
International Conference on Contemporary Antimicrobial Research, ICCAR 2016, Silchar, Assam, India, 14-17 November 2016.
Trends in Natural Products Research: A Young Scientists Meeting of PSE and IUNG-PIB, Pulawy, Poland, 30 May-2 June 2016.
The national symposium with international participation on ‘Medicinal plants - present and future", the XIIIth edition,’ Piatra Neamt, Romania, 6-9 September 2016.
International symposium on phytochemicals in medicine and food, Organised the Phytochemical Society of Europe in collaboration with Phytochemical Society of Asia, Shanghai, China, 26-29 June 2015.
Joint conference of the PSE and the Austrian Pharmaceutical Society, PSE Young Scientists’ Symposium, Innsbruck, Austria, 21-27 July 2013
PSE conference in Naples, Naples, Italy, 25-28 June 2013.
BIOCOM12 conference in Cadiz, Spain, 9-12 September 2012.
ICBAM-2012 on Biologically active molecules, 8-10, March 2012, Gandhinagar, Tamilnadu, India
12th congress of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology [ISE] - “Traditional Medicines and Globalization-The Future of Ancient Systems of Medicine”, Kolkata, India, February 17-19, 2012.
BIOtrends in natural products research -a PSE young scientists’ meeting, 25-27 March 2012, Dortmund Technical University, August-Schmidt-Str. 6, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
PSE Conference on Phytochemicals in Nutrition and Health, Bari, Italy, 27-30 September 2011
Trends in Natural Products Conference on Marine Natural Products, PSE Young Scientists Meeting, Crete, Greece, 12-15 June 2011.
Update Ayurveda, Mumbai, 25-28 November 2010 (also acted as one of two international advisors)
International Symposium on Terpenes-Application, Activity and Analysis, 26-29 September 2010, Istanbul, Turkey
Natural Products Conference, Algeria, August 2010
Trends in Natural Products Conference, PSE Young Scientists Meeting, De Montfort University, April 2010.

Referee for grant proposals

The Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation (RPF), Cyprus
Research Council of the Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Diseases (RFCID) and the Health and Health Services Research Fund (HHSRF), Hong Kong, China
Food and Health Bureau, Government Secretariat, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China
A research platform for the University of Vienna, Austria
Trustees of the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
The South African Medical Research Council
Medical Research Council, UK
Member of the peer review college of Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation (SRNSF), Georgia
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland
ETH Research Commission, Zurich, Switzerland
EPSRC and BBSRC, UK
Fulbright, USA
The Royal Society, UK
The Scottish Hospital Endowments Research Trust, Edinburgh, UK
Research Council of the Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Diseases (RFCID) and the Health and Health Services Research Fund (HHSRF), Hong Kong, China.
Food and Health Bureau, Government Secretariat, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China.
Higher Education Academy, UK
Internal PhD applications, and PhD transfer applications

Recruitment

Staff: Chair of the Recruitment Panel for School staff recruitment at LJMU. Member of the recruitment panel responsible for the recruitment of academic (faculty) and research staff (UoW and Ulster).
Students: Providing direction and leadership in student recruitment (both home and international) in PBS at LJMU, and member of the International Policy Committee for student recruitment at LJMU. I had been involved in students recruitment visits and presentations on behalf of the School of Biomedical Sciences, and visited a number of universities in Bangladesh to recruit students for the PgD/MSc Pharmaceutical Sciences programme (Ulster)

Workshop coordination (invited)

Conducted workshop on scientific writing at the Third International Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food (3-ISPMF), Kunming, China, 25-30 August 2018.
Conducted workshop on scientific writing at University of MaCau, in 2016 and 2017.
Conducted workshop on scientific writing at Universiti Technologi Malaysia, May 2015.
Conducted workshop on structure elucidation of natural products using NMR at Universiti Technologi Malaysia, May 2015.
Conducted workshop on scientific writing at the 12th International Congress of Ethnopharmacology, “Traditional Medicines and Globalization - The Future of Ancient Systems of Medicine”, Kolkata, India, 17-19 Feb 2012.
I was invited by the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran, to conduct a workshop on ‘Structure elucidation of natural and synthetic organic compounds by modern NMR techniques’.

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