Associate Professor and Chairman, Pharmaceutical chemistry
University of Karachi
Total years of experience :29 years, 11 Months
1. Teaching courses related to Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Pharmacy at the graduate and post-graduate level.
2. Guiding students for completion of research projects leading to MS, M - Pharm, M-Phil degree programs
3. Involved in research and have published 24 research papers / review articles.
4.As chairman of the department look after the administrative affairs of the department. 5.Plan and execute academic policies in the department.
Teaching, Research and Administration.
1. Teaching, Research and Administration. 2. Incharge Training Program to Pharmacy graduates. 3. Advisor Student affairs.
4. Incharge of formulation and dispensing laboratory. 5 .Incharge of technology laboratory.
6. Incharge of instrumental and QC laboratory.
1- Developed and designed BOP's for the analysis of drugs.
2- Validated and fine- tuned some HPLC and UV-Visible Spectrophotometric methods for drugs and related products.
3- Involved in the analysis of drugs by various analytical methods.
1- Worked on a collaborative research project assigned by the R&D department
(GlaxoWellcome) and Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi leading to PhD
degree.
2- Gained practical experience on equipments such as HPLC, UV, IR etc.
3- Gained practical training in the Quality Assurance and Production Operations.
4- Involved in the analysis of Pharmaceuticals.
5- Method development (HPLC and Spectrophotometry).
Research fellowship was awarded by GlaxoWellcome Pakistan to work on a research project leading to PhD degree.The work was carried out in the Research and Development deptt. of GlaxoWellcome. The dissertation entitled "Photolysis and Interaction of Thiamine HCl with Riboflavin in Aqueous Solution." During the course of study intensive training was acquired on instruments such as HPLC, UV-Visible spectrophotometer, IR, Conductivity meter,Refrectometer etc.and also on QC / QA and Production operations.
M.Pharm degree was obtained by working on a project entitled "Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of some Piperidine Derivatives." This was a 2 year research by course work program in which in the first year seven 700 level courses were conducted and in the second year dissertation was completed.
A four year B.Pharm degree was obtained by studying 152 credit hours courses ( 44 ; 3 cr. hr. courses, 4; 4 cr. hr. courses and 2; 2 cr. hr. courses). After the successful completion of courses a 200 hrs. training was conducted in industrial / hospital pharmacy.
High school (Intermediate) was passed by obtaining First division.
