Maliha Uroos Author

Dr. Maliha Uroos completed her PhD in synthetic organic chemistry in 2012 from the University of Nottingham under HEC Faculty Development Scholarship. She was awarded EPSRC post-doctoral fellowship (2012-13) at the University of Nottingham, UK. She was appointed Lecturer at University of the Punjab in 2007 and currently working as Associate Professor (2020 to date) and Director, Centre for Research Ionic Liquid, School of Chemistry, University of the Punjab. Her main focus is synthetic organic chemistry and research interests include synthesis and applications of ionic liquids, synthesis of biologically active molecules, sustainable energy production and development of green processes for setting up bio-refinery from agricultural waste. Dr. Abdul Hameed Dr. Abdul Hameed completed his PhD in Organic Chemistry from The University of Nottingham, UK. He worked in the area of natural products synthesis. He was a post-doc fellow in Max-Planck Institut für Polymerforschung, Germany in synthetic division headed by Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen. There he worked on the functionalization of adenylyl cyclsase inhibitors via chemical methods to conjugate them with monoclonal antibody to study their biological potential in Regulatory T cells (Treg). His current research interests are including the development of novel methodologies, their utilization in natural products synthesis, the synthesis heterocyclic compound compounds to evaluate their biological potential. Sadia Naz is currently a PhD student at Centre for Research Ionic Liquid, School of Chemistry, University of the Punjab (2018 to onwards) and is working as research assistant in HEC NRPU project with Dr. Maliha Uroos (2019 to onwards). She has publications in international journals and presented her work in various international and national conferences. Her research interests include synthetic organic chemistry, ionic liquids, conversion of agricultural waste materials into valuable platform chemicals. Prof. Muhammad Raza Shah is a full professor at the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Pakistan. He is also the Head of the Center for Bioequivalence Studies and Clinical Research. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz Award from the President of Pakistan, the Salam Prize, the Professor Atta ur Rahman Gold Medal, and the Dr M Raziuddin Siddiqi Prize, by the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, for scientists under 40 years of age, in the field of chemistry. Prof. Shah has authored 3 books and edited 2 books, in addition to contributing over 350 peer-reviewed journal papers. One of his authored books was declared as best book of 2017 by the Government of Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission. He is an editor for the Journal of the Chemical Society of Pakistan, and has been a mentor of the Pakistani International Chemistry Olympiad team since 2009. Prof. Shah is a Fellow of both the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the Chemical Society of Pakistan, is a member of the National Nanotechnology Foresight Committee, constituted by the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology, and remains a member of the COMSTECH consultative working group of scientists from OIC countries, to prepare an agenda and action plan for the Ten-Year Plan of Action (TYPOA 2016-2025).