Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh
India
Biography
Dr. Asad U Khan has received his PhD from Aligarh M University in collaboration with ICGEB, New Delhi during the period of 1998. Currently, he is working as Professor in Aligarh M University. He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities as Editorial members of Scientific Domain of Global Science Book, Gene, Molecular & Cell Therapy, Medical & Pharma Board, Gene Genomes & Genomics, Biochemistry Processes Biotechnology & Molecular Biology. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like PlOS ONE, Bioinformation (Biomedical Information), Genomics proteomics and Bioinformatics (Elsevere), Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine (Elsevier), Journal of Mol. Genetic Medicine (Oxford), Journal of Industrial Research and Toxicology. He has authored over 135 research articles, 3 books. He is a member of (1) Life member of International Society of Genomics and Evolutionary Microbiology, (2) Life member of AMI (3) Member of New York Academy of Science. He has honoured as BOYSCAST Fellow of DST, Government of India to work as Visiting Scientist in one of the lab in University of Napoli, Italy in 2004. He is recipient of INSA Fellowship of 2005 for Indian lab. He is recipient of Young Scientist Award and Alembic Award of Association of Microbiologist of India in Medical Microbiology in 2006 and 2009 respectively. In year 2010 Dr. Khan has been given “Most Active Teachers Award of AMU” and DBT-CREST award of Department of Biotechnology and National Bioscience Award for Career Development” of Government of India, Department of Biotechnology for the year 2012
Research Interest
Drug resistance mechanism, Drug designing, Biofilm, Photodynamic threrapy and infection control, Nanomedicine