Farukh Arjmand

Biography

Dr (Mrs) Farukh Arjmand was born in Srinagar,Kmr on 11th November, 1964 , currently working as Professor of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,India . She has completed her masters and Ph.D in chemistry from Aligarh Muslim university, Aligarh and later has joined her services as lecturer in 1994 in A.M.U. Dr Arjmand has research experience of 23 years in the specialization area of bioinorganic chemistry . Her research focus is on medicinal inorganic chemistry. She works on "Design and Synthesis of chiral metal-based antitumor chemotherapeutic drug entities and in vitro interaction studies of metal-based compounds with biomolecules viz, DNA, RNA and nucleotides. She has published more than 112 research articles pertinent to her specialization area in the peer reviewed journals of international repute ,has contributed 42 articles to conferences/symposium and has two patents. She has contributed a chapter "Antitumor activity of tin complexes" to Encyclopedia of Metalloproteins (Springer, 2012). Dr.Arjmand has successfully guided 12 Ph.D and 2 M. Phil students and has run five major research projects as PI on the design of metal-based drug candidates awarded by UGC, CSIR and DBT, Govt of India (2001-09) and has visited many countries(China,USA,Egypt) for academic pursuits. She has joint research collaborations with national and international research institutes, IIT Kharagpur, IICT , Hyderabad and ACTREC, Mumbai (India) USTC, China, USM, Malaysia and Materials Chemistry Laboratory Oujda, Morocco and Institut de Physique de Rennes - UMR 6251,université de Rennes 1,France.

Research Interest

Bioinorganic Chemistry,Metal-nucleic acid interactions.