Research Supervision & Funding (secured over 1.5 million pounds at LJMU)​

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• Thai Royal Golden Jubilee full-time PhD studentship (Ms Chuanchom Khuniad, 2021-2025)

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• Thai Royal Golden Jubilee Visiting PhD studentship (Ms Pitchapa Thongsuwan, 2024-2025)

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• CARA full-time PhD studentship (Ms Waed Alsheikh, 2020-2024)

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• ​Visiting Post-doctoral Fellowship, self-funded (Dr Sarah Abdou, 2022-2023)

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• Split-site Commonwealth Scholarship for PhD research (Mr Muhammad Zaki Shah Syed, 2022-2023)

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• Split-site Commonwealth Scholarship for PhD research (Mr Yemi Adekunle, 2022-2023)

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• Commonwealth Rutherford Postdoctoral Fellowship (Dr Sushmita Nath, 2018-2020)

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• Thai Royal Golden Jubilee Visiting PhD studentship (Ms Niwana Wangsawat, 2019)

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• Visiting Research Professorship sponsored by the Ankara University (Prof Alev Tosun Onder, 2019)

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• Visiting Post-doctoral Fellowship, funded by Ibadan University, Nigeria (Dr Olaoluwa Omosalewa, 2019)

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• Sudanese Government Postdoctoral Fellowships (Dr Omer Hamdi, 2018-2019)

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• Royal Society Mobility Funding (Mr Alfred Ngengue Tamfu, 2018-2019)

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• Petroleum Technology funded Visiting PhD studentship (Ms Bilkisu Adedoyin, 2018-2019).

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• World Bank’s Robert S. McNamara Fellowship (Mr Tauhidur Rahman Nurunnabi, 2017-2018).

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• Split-site Commonwealth Scholarship for PhD research (Mr Peter Segun, 2016-2017)

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• Commonwealth Scholarship for PhD research (Ms Stephanie Tandem, 2015-2019)

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• Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education Scholarship for PhD research (Ms Shaymaa Al-Majmae, 2015-2019)​​

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• University of Punjab Staff Development Scholarship for PhD research (Ms Shabnam Javed, 2015-2016)

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• Algerian Government Scholarship for PhD research (Ms Sara Maarfia, 2015-2016)

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• Pakistan Higher Education Commission Scholarship for PhD research (Mr Kashif Khan, 2015-2016)

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• Libyan Government Scholarship for PhD research (Ms Afaf Al-Groshi, 2014-2019)

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• Liverpool John Moores University Scholarship for PhD research (Ms Alexandra Zavoianu, 2014-2019)

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• FP7 MC Incoming Fellowship (Prof Jean Wansi, ​2014-2016)

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• Post-doctoral Fellowship sponsored by Government of Malaysia (Dr Norazah Basar, 2013-2014)

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• Overseas Associateship of DBT for the Scientists of North Eastern Region Fellowship sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, India (Dr Anupam Das Talukder, 2013)

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• INSPIRE project funded by the British Council (2011-2013)

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• TUBITAK funding for PhD research (Ms Ipek Suntar, 2010-2011)

 

• EPSRC Mass Spectral Analysis Quota (2009-2011)

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Research Interests in Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry

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• Extraction, isolation, and identification of bioactive phytochemicals active against cancer, malaria, infection, oxidative stress, inflammation and skin-related diseases.

• Design and synthesis of bioactive natural products and pharmaceutically important small molecules.

• Design and synthesis of biologically active molecules to treat cancer, malaria, infection, oxidative stress, inflammation and skin-related diseases.

• Design and synthesis of ‘molecular umbrellas’ for drug delivery and other applications e.g., synthesis of biologically active steroid dimers for drug delivery.

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