A.F. M. Motiur Rahman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, King Saud University, KSA
Distinguished Research Fellow, CRID
Areas of Expertise: Synthesis and biological activities (Cytotoxicity, Topoisomerase inhibitory activity, Antimicrobial activities, etc.) of Natural/Synthetic molecules, Total synthesis of natural products, Methodology development of various organic reactions, Bio-conjugates Chemistry, Host-guest chemistry and Heterocyclic Chemistry, Drug Metabolism etc.
Dr. Motiur Rahman has extended his research towards Drug Metabolism. During his postdoctoral tenure at Yeungnam University, Kyungpook National University and at UiTM Malaysia, he has done various research. In October 2010, he has joined as Assistant Professor, at College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and now serving as an Associate Professor. He has published his research work in JMC, BMC, EJMC, EJOC, Tetrahedron, etc. and having great contribution in Organic/Medicinal Chemistry.
Dr. Motiur Rahman atrated his academic career as a Research Professor in 2007 at the Institute for Drug Research, College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University, South Korea. Later on, he joined as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (2008-2009) at the Catalysis and Synthetic Methodology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Kyungpook National University, South Korea. In 2009 he joined at the Faculty of Pharmacy, MARA University of Technology, Malaysia as a Postdoctoral officer. In 2010 Dr. Motiur Rahman joined in the College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
as an Assistant Professor and till now he has been working as an Associate Professor at the same university.
Currently, he has been holding two funds from National Plan for Science and Technology, King Abdullah City for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia (~2,000,000 SAR in both) (Project no. 11-MED- 1909-02 & 12-MED- 2439-02)
Some of his ongoing projects including; Synthesis, biological assays and metabolic profiling of biological active natural molecules à Methodology development of various organic reactions à Detection, characterization and fragmentation pattern of natural products using DART à Design, Synthesis, Photophysical, and Biological Properties of Fluorescein Hydrazones à Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Diarylheptanoids and Their Derivatives for the Development of New Anti-Cancer Agents
Professor Motiur Rahman published more than 80 articles, Book Chapters, Monographs and conference Proceedings in peer reviewed international journals and conference proceedings which are indexed in SCI, Scopus etc. He also participated in numerus research projects in Kora, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia in different capacities.
Professor Motiur Rahman has been performing as Editorial Board Member and Reviewer of renowned journals in his area.
He has also been teaching and supervising Postgraduate and undergraduate students.
During his research and academic career, he has been awarded many honors and recognitions e.g. NEDO fellowship Japan, Brain Korea 21 (BK21) scholarships, Korea Research Foundation fellowship for Research Professor, Korea Research Foundation fellowship for Ph. D program and Yeungnam University scholarship for Ph. D program etc.
Professor Jahangir Alam has been engaged with different social and professional association in home and abroad.