Shams Qamar Usmani AMU Aligarh Awarded Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship

Aligarh June 18: Mr. Shams Qamar Usmani, a Research Scholar in the Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, has been awarded with the prestigious Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship for one year tenable in Britain. Mr. Usmani shall work under the supervision of Dr. Kirk T. Semple, Lancaster Environmental Centre, Lancaster University, UK.

This is for the first time that such a prestigious scholarship has been awarded to a research scholar enrolled in the Department of Chemistry. Mr. Usmani is pursuing his PhD in Chemistry under the supervision of Dr. Suhail Sabir.

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Aligarh June 18: Five graduate students of School of Science and Technology, University of Malyasia, Sabah, shall receive industrial training for two months at the Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University under the supervision of Dr. Suhail Sabir. They will also be working at the Environmental Lab of Department of Civil Engineering, University Polytechnic and Department of Agricultural Microbiology Laboratory. The Vice Chancellor has allowed their stay at the University and receive the training.

This is for the first time that students from outside the country have come to the University to receive such training at the Department of Chemistry.

(Dr. Rahat Abrar)

Public Relations Officer

Dr. Asad U. Khan invited to deliver Plenary Lecture on In Silico Approaches in Drug Design

Aligarh June 18: Dr. Asad U. Khan, Reader, Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University has been invited to deliver Plenary Lecture on "In Silico Approaches in Drug Design" in the WSEAS Conference being held at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Dr. Asad U. Khan said that the aim of this study is to give a hypothesis for designing a drug against most infectious diseases of human being. He said, "Drug designing is time taking and costly process. It is a multistep process where a single mistake in any step could result in a loss of huge amount of money and time".

Dr. Asad U. Khan is a molecular biologist. Dr. Khan has received the prestigious BOYSCAST Fellowship from the Government of India to work as visiting scientist at the University of Napoli, Italy. He has also been awarded with Young Scientist Award conferred by the Association of Microbiologist of India. Dr. Asad has 55 research papers to his credit and is a member to several international associations.

(Zeeshan Ahmad)

Assistant Public Relations Officer