Farrukh Aqil Author & Editor

Iqbal Ahmad is a Senior Faculty of microbiology at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India, and Principal Investigator of a research project on "Anti-quorum Sensing Activity of natural Products" of the University Grant commission, New Delhi. he gained his M. Phil, and Ph.D. in microbiology from AMU carrying out his doctoral research at the central Drug research Institute, Lucknow, India. Iqbal Ahmad had worked on plasmid biology of E. coli, bacterial virulence and pathogenicity, drug resistance, microbial ecology, metal-microbe interactions, plant-bacteria interactions, bioactivities and therapeutic potentials of Indian medicinal plants. recent research interests include quorum sensing modulation by natural products and exploring novel anti-infective compounds against drug resistant microbial pathogens. Iqbal Ahmad hads published more than 50 original research papers and edited three books. Farrukh Aqil is currently a post doctoral scholar at the University of Louisville, USA, with Ramesh C. Gupta in the cancer chemoprevention group. He has completed his studies in microbiology with Iqbal Ahmad from Aligarh Muslim University, India. He worked on bacterial drug resistance and bioactivities of potential Indian medicinal plants which includes in vitro antimicrobial, antioxidant and antimutagenic properties. before moving to the USA he has been lecture for microbiology and biotechnology at Integral University, Lucknow, India. His research interest has a focus on anticancer bioactive compounds from natural products and its efficacy in vitro and in animal models. Farrukh Aqil has published 16 research papers and edited one book.