Mohammad Afzal

Biography

Mohammad Afzal teaches human genetics, cell and molecular biology and biostatistics. His research is focused on (a) the study of consanguinity, genetics and toxicology of human organism with special reference to genetic disorders, traits, populations and ethnicity of North Indian people besides chemical mutagenesis and cancer, (b) use of cytogenetic, biochemical, molecular and statistical tools and techniques in the study of human,clinical and biological samples for identification of polymorphisms, mutations and sequences and characterization of genes and proteins (c) animal model/alternative models(in vitro) studies and (d) interdisciplinary studies. He has published over 190 papers in refereed journals including those in Pediatric Research (Nature), Behavior Genetics, Clinical Genetics, Neuro-oncology, PLoS ONE, BMC Cancer, Tumour Biology, American Journal of Human Biology, Toxicology Letters, Annals of Epidemiology. His citations count 1785, H-index 24, G-index 42 and i10-index 60. He has supervised 20 PhDs, 4 MPhils and 13 MSc theses. He has conducted research projects from ICMR, UGC, UPCST and MAAS (NGO). He was the recipient of Scientist of the Year Award (2006) from National Environmental Science Academy, New Delhi. He is the founding chief editor of Biology and Medicine, Aligarh being published regularly since 2009, now published by OMICS group. Recently he was included among the five most cited authors of the university by Elsevier group during the period 2008 through 2012. He got his training at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (1985-1986, two years as Research Assistant) and CCMB, Hyderabad (4 weeks) and his alma mater is Bhagalpur University where he studied for his Doctoral (1984), Masters (1980) and Bachelors degree (1976) in Zoology. He has written extensively in English, Urdu and Hindi articles and columns on social, scientific and cultural issues in reputed journals, magazines and newspapers.

Research Interest

Genetics, Consanguinity, Population genetics, Toxicology