Advances and Prospects of 3-d Metal-Based Anticancer Drug Candidates (PDF)

Chemical Research Society of India, CRSI) and Outstanding Researchers Award 2022 in faculty of Science and Life science, A.M.U . Prof Arjmand was awarded prestigious FRSC in 2023 ( Membership number: 679931) by Royal Society of Chemistry, UK for her contribution to chemical science and chosen as CRSI council member in 2020 for three years . Prof Arjmand is presently serving as Co-director of APJ Abdul Kalam STEM Center for Education and Research - a collaboration of The Ohio State University, USA, and AMU, Aligarh. She completed the Academic leadership (LeAP) program, MHRD, Govt. of India at AMU, India, and OSU, USA in 2019.



2Prof. Sartaj Tabassum is working as a Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He was appointed as a lecturer in the department of chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, in 1993. He has published 170 papers, in the journals of international repute and has 4184 citations and an h-index is 37(Scopus). He has presented his research work and delivered invited lectures at various conferences/symposia. He is a life member of ICC, CRSI, ISCB, DNA Society of India, and American Nano Society. He has successfully guided 19 Ph.D. and 4 M.Phil students and many Master's projects. He has successfully completed many research projects granted by TWAS, Italy, CSIR, New Delhi, DBT, Govt. of India. As a distinguished Scientist, Prof. Tabassum was awarded the Overseas Associateship award in 2005 by DBT, Govt of India and Prof. W. U. Malik Memorial Award 2022 by Indian council of Chemists ,(ICC).He has signed several MoU and joint research collaborati6ns with the University of Camerino UNICAM, Italy, USM Malaysia, and USTC Hefei, China. He has visited many countries for academic pursuit China, the USA, Italy, and King Saud University, Riyad, Saudi Arabia as a fellow, visiting professor, and for international conferences. Prof. Tabassum is working in the area of medicinal inorganic chemistry and his main focus is the design and synthesis of heterobimetallic complexes that have the potential to act as cancer chemotherapeutics. Three patents have been granted in India ( 01) and the US ( 02) in which he has claimed that the new drug will be very effective with minimal side effects and it will be available at a meagre cost.



Dr. Huzaifa Yasir Khan received his B.Sc (Hons.) degree in Chemistry from Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University in 2013 and Master's degree in Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, AMU in 2015. He was awarded prestigious DST INSPIRE Scholarship from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for five years during his undergraduate and master's programme. He completed his Ph.D. degree in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Farukh Arjmand, Department of Chemistry, AMU on the topic "Synthesis and Characterization of tailored metal-based potential antitumor chemotherapeutic drug candidates". He was awarded 'INSPIRE Fellowship' (DST-JRF)' and 'DST INSPIRE-Senior Research Fellowship' by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India during 2015-2020. He has published several good papers in the reputed peer-reviewed journals, viz; Coordination Chemistry Reviews, Chemistry Select, RSC Advances, Bioorganic Chemistry, Polyhedron, ACS Omega etc. and participated in several national and international conferences. He is a life time member of CRSI, India (Chemical Research Society of India) and was a member of ACS, American Chemical society in the year 2019. He has been awarded Young Scientist for the best oral presentation by Indian Council of Chemists in the year 2022. Following his Ph.D., Dr Huzaifa Y. Khan worked as Postdoctoral Research Associate at Interdisciplinary Biotechnology unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh funded by Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India for one year. He is currently working as Assistant Professor (Contractual) in the Department of Chemistry, A.M.U. Aligarh.