Curriculum – Vitae
SUAIB LUQMAN
PRESENT POSITION Scientist (CSIR-CIMAP) & Assistant Professor (AcSIR)
CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
Lucknow, India.
Date of Birth 06th January 1975
Corresponding Address Molecular Bioprospection Department, Biotechnology Division
CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
Lucknow-226015, India.
Contact No. 91-522-2718635 (Office)
91-9450904995 (Cell)
Fax No. 91-522-2716141
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Website Link http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=srLI1RAAAAAJ&hl=en
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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
2003 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph D), Department of Biochemistry, University of Allahabad, India
Topic: Studies on the effect of capsaicin on human erythrocytes.
1997 M.Sc. (65.2 %) University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India
Chancellor’s Medal & Pratibha Samman Awardee.
1995 B.Sc. (69.48 %) University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India
Awarded Dudgeon Memorial Medal.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research
2008 onwards Scientist Gr. IV (2) since July 01, 2008 at CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow.
2004-2008 Scientist Gr. IV (1) from July 01, 2004 to June 30, 2008 at CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow.
2002-2004 September 2002 to June 2004, Worked as Senior Research Fellow of CSIR in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Allahabad, Allahabad.
2001-2002 Worked as Project Fellow in the Major Research Project of University Grants Commission, New Delhi in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Allahabad, Allahabad.
Teaching
2013 Onwards Co-ordinator for Microbiology Course (BTB 103) of JNU-PhD Programme.
2011 Onwards Inducted in AcSIR Faculty as Assistant Professor (Biological Sciences).
2007 Onwards Inducted as Faculty Member in Institute’s JNU-PhD Programme (Biotechnology Course).
2003-2004 Visiting Faculty to the Center of Food Technology, Institute of Professional Studies, University of Allahabad, Allahabad.
1999-2004 Guest Lecturer, Taught Undergraduate and Postgraduate students of Biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Allahabad. Taught Instrumentation and Techniques to the students of Food Technology in the Center of Food Technology (Institute of Professional Studies, University of Allahabad).
1998-1999 Vice Principal in the Institute of Para Medical Sciences, Allahabad. Taught Biochemistry to the students of Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology.
FELLOW / MEMBER OF SOCIETIES
2014 Life Member, Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Association of India (MAPAI).
2013 Life Member, Uttar Pradesh Academy of Sciences (UPAS) erstwhile known as Uttar Pradesh Association for the Science & Technology Advancement.
2012 Life Member, Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists, India (LF: 616/2012).
2011 Fellow, The Institute of Applied Sciences, India.
2011 Fellow of the Society of Life Sciences, India.
2011 Member, The National Academy of Sciences, India (LM-2011).
2011 Life Member, Indian Association for Cancer Research, India (LM 729).
2010 Life Member, The Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI, LM 852).
2009 Member of the American Chemical Society, USA (30069579).
2009 Young Researcher Member of the Biochemical Society, UK (No. 00833679).
2008 Elected as Active Member of The European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) No. 11896.
2007 Life Member, The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) No. L 12385.
2006 Life Member, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Society of India No. MAPSI/ LM/0024/2006.
2006 Life Member, Association of Microbiologists of India No. 2017-2006.
2005 Life Member, Association for DNA Fingerprinting and other DNA Technologies (ADNAT) No. L-656, India.
2005 Life Member, Society of Biological Chemist (SBC) No. 1608, India.
2002-2004 Member of Indian Science Congress Association, India.
2001-2002 Member of Research Journal of Chemistry & Environment, Journal of Nature Conservation, Society of Biological Chemists, India.
1996-2004 Member of Biochemical Society, University of Allahabad, India.
1998-1999 Member of the Hindustan Times Privileged Citizen Group, India.
1992-1995 Member of National Service Scheme, India.
SCHOLARSHIP / FELLOWSHIP
2009 Young Researcher Scholarship from International Multidisciplinary Research
Congress and European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer, Turkey (May 21-24).
2008 Indo-US Research Fellowship from Indo-US Science and Technology Forum for
Pursuing Advanced Research in the area of Life Sciences at University of Hawaii, Hilo
for a period of twelve months (November 2008 to October 2009).
2007 European Commission Grant for participation in BSS Theoretical course on
Inflammation: A key to Common Complex Diseases in Lund University, Sweden
2006 European Commission Grant for participation in Baltic Summer School, Germany.
2005 Marie-Curie Fellowship from European Cell Death Organization, Hungary.
2004 DST-Royal Society Fellowship under India-UK Science Networking Programme.
2002 Senior Research Fellowship awarded from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) New Delhi, India (September 2002 to June 2004).
2001 University Grants Commission Fellowship
May 2001-August 2002, Worked as Project Fellow in the Major Research Project of UGC (No. F 3-30/2001 SR II).
1997 State Level Scholarship
Uttar Pradesh Chhatra Kalyan Nidhi Scholarship during M.Sc. Degree.
DISTINCTIONS / OVERSEAS VISIT
2002 Germany July 01-05, Participated in the 52nd Meeting of Nobel Laureates and
Students at Lindau.
July 06-13, Visited Premier Institution of Germany.
France July 14-15, Meeting with the Coordinator of United Nation
Environmental Programme in Paris.
2003 Korea Aug 30-Sep 03, Participation and Presentation in 22nd World Congress of
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in Busan.
Spain Nov 03-05, Participation in IVth Workshop on Advances in
Molecular Medicine in Madrid.
2004 Bangladesh February, Offered post of Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at
BGC Trust Medical College, Chittagong (Not Accepted).
United Kingdom July, Approval of visit to UK under India-UK Science
Networking Programme, supported by DST, Government
of India and Royal Society, UK
2005 Iran Sep 11-15, Invitation from Iranian Biochemical Society to deliver a
Talk in 8th National Congress and 1st International
Congress of Biochemistry in Tehran (Not attended)
Hungary Oct 1-4, Selected by ECDO Scientific Committee to attend the
Training Course and 13th Euro- Conference on Apoptosis
in Budapest (Not attended).
2006 Germany Aug 20-Sep 02 Selected and invited for participation in Baltic Summer
School at University of Kiel, Kiel (Not attended).
2007 Sweden Sep 02-13, Selected for participation in Baltic Summer School at
Lund University, Malmo (Not attended).
2008 United States of America IUSSTF Fellow under Indo-US Science and Technology
Forum Programme to University of Hawaii, Hilo.
2009 USA Mar 04-07 Participation and Presentation at 26th Annual Miami
Breast Cancer Conference in Miami, Florida.
Jun 27-Jul 01 Participation and Presentation at 50th Annual Meeting of
the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP), Hawaii.
Aug 16-20 Participation and Presentation at 238th American
Chemical Society (ACS) Meeting, Washington DC.
Aug 21-23 Participation and Presentation at Eight International
Congress on Targeted Therapies in Cancer (ICTTC),
Washington DC.
2011 Turkey Sep 04-09 Participation and Presentation at 59th International
Congress and Annual Meeting of Society of Medicinal
Plants and Natural Products, Antalya.
2013 United Kingdom Aug 28 Eavesdrop Lecture of Sir John B Gurdon, Nobel Laureate
in Physiology & Medicine at University of Cambridge, UK.
2014 Greece Oct 06-10 Oral Presentation of research paper on genin flavonoids at
9th International Conference for Anticancer Research,
Sithonia.
HONORS AWARDS
2015 ICMR Prize for Biomedical Research for the year 2012 for commendable contribution on Plant based natural products as anticancer agents.
2015 CSIR-CIMAP Annual Day Award for Outstanding Research Publication from the Institute in the Year 2014 for our research paper entitled ‘Development of Cellulosic Polymer Based Gel of Novel Ternary Mixture of Miconazole Nitrate for Buccal Delivery’ published in Carbohydrate Polymers 103: 126-133. Team Members were Rai VK, Yadav NP, Sinha P, Misra N, Luqman S, Dwivedi HN, Kyomonil KM, Saraf S.
2015 Best Poster Award for our research paper ‘Health restoration by Nigella sativa: Prominence of Cancer chemoprevention through known ancient path’ presented in Theme II: Healing Herbs in Traditional Systems of Medicine of International Conference on Medicinal Plants: Resource for Affordable New Generation Healthcare, CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow. Team includes Masood N, Premanand A, Luqman S*.
2014 Best Presentation Award Certificate for our research paper entitled ‘Structural
specificity of genin flavonoids suppresses the commotion of aromatase and cathepsin D, pivotal targets for breast cancer’ presented in Session No. 69 on “Natural Products in Cancer Drug Development” at the 9th International Conference of Anticancer Research on Thursday October 09, 2014, Sithonia, Greece.
2014 CSIR-CIMAP Annual Day Award for Outstanding Publication from the Institute in the
Year 2013 for our research paper entitled ‘Synthesis of combretastatin A4 analogues on steroidal framework and their anti-breast cancer activity’ published in The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 137: 332-344. Team Members were Parihar S, Kumar A, Chaturvedi AK, Sachan NK, Luqman S, Changkija B, Manohar M, Prakash O, Chanda D, Khan F, Chanotiya CS, Shanker K, Dwivedi A, Konwar R, Negi AS.
2013 Bharat Jyoti Award-Certificate of Excellence for meritorious services, outstanding
Performance and remarkable Role by India International Friendship Society (IIFS), New Delhi.
2013 Felicitated by IUSSTF & SERB-DST, Government of India for successfully completing
research work under the Indo-US Research Fellowship Program 2008 at First Indo-US
Research Fellows Conclave.
2012 Dr. P D Sethi Annual Awards-2012 Best Research Paper: Certificate of Merit Awarded
to The Research Paper ‘Validated high performance thin layer chromatographic method for simultaneous quantification of major iridoids in Vitex trifolia and their antioxidant studies published in Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 61 (2012): 207-214 by Neerja Tiwari, Suaib Luqman, Nusrat Masood, Madan M. Gupta.
2012 SERB-DST Fast Track Young Scientist Award to carry out research work on ‘Target
based evaluation of natural products from medicinal and aromatic plants and their related
analogues as anticancer agent’ Project sanctioned for three years.
2011 Award of New Frontiers in Vetiver conferred by The Board of The Vetiver Network
International (TVNI) in recognition of pioneering work on potentially new area of use
for vetiver that shows promise for breaking new grounds.
2010 Scientia Pharmaceutica Citation Award for the most cited paper of the year 2009 by The Austrian Pharmaceutical Society (Österreichische Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft, ÖPhG) and the Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists (Österreichische Apothekerkammer, ÖAK).
2009 Young Scientist Award from Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI).
2009 Award from Innocentive Inc. USA for solving theoretical challenge on cooling
compounds, efficient chromosome doubling: plant cell division, plant mitotic arrest agents and protocol.
2008 Young Scientist Award from Council of Science and Technology, Government of
Uttar Pradesh for the Year 2005-2006.
2006 DST-SERC Fast Track Young Scientist Award to carry out research work on
‘Ethanopharmacological studies of some medicinal and aromatic plants for their antioxidative properties: Relevance to oxidative stress’ Project sanctioned for three years.
2004 DST-Royal Society Fellowship for one to one meeting under India-UK Science
Networking Programme to visit Manchester Metropolitan University, awarded by
DST, Government of India & Royal Society of United Kingdom.
2003 Young Investigator Award from World Association of Societies of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine (WASPaLM), South Korea.
2003 Champion of the Champions Award for securing Ist Position in Science Quiz from
Science Society of University of Allahabad, Allahabad.
2002 Department of Science and Technology, Government of India Young Researcher
Award for participation in 52nd Nobel Laureate Meeting at Lindau (Germany) awarded
by DST, Government of India.
2001 Winner of the Science Society Award, University of Allahabad, Allahabad.
2000 Awarded Chancellor’s Silver Medal for being the:
Best and Outstanding student of the University in the year 1997.
Best and Outstanding student of the Faculty of Science in 05 years 1994-1998.
1999 Awarded Pratibha Samman from Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad for securing
65.2% in M.Sc (Biochemistry)
1995 Awarded Dudgeon Memorial Medal for securing highest marks in Botany (B.Sc.)
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
1. Singh DK, Luqman S*, Mathur AK. 2015. Lawsonia inermis L.–A commercially important primaeval dying and medicinal plant with diverse pharmacological activity: A review. Industrial Crops and Products 65: 269-286.
2. Singh A, Fatima K, Singh A, Behl A, Mintoo MJ, Hasanain M, Ashraf R, Luqman S, Shanker K, Mondhe DM, Sarkar J, Chanda D, Negi AS. Anticancer activity and toxicity profiles of 2-Benzylidene indanone lead molecule. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 76: 57-67.
3. Negi AS, Gautam Y, Alam S, Chanda D, Luqman S, Sarkar J, Khan F, Konwar R. 2015. Natural antitubulin agents: importance of 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl fragment. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 23 (3): 373-389.
4. Srivastava S, Luqman S*. 2015. Immune-O-Toxins as the magic bullet for therapeutic purposes. Biomedical Research and Therapy 2 (1): 169-183.
5. Ponnam D, Singh S, Srinivas KVNS, Luqman S, Alam S, Amtul Z, Arigari NK, Kumar JK, Siddiqui L, Dubey V, Tiwari AK, Sridhar B, Khan F. 2014. Synthesis of cyclic 1,9-acetal derivatives of forskolin and their bioactivity evaluation. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 87: 735-744.
6. Shukla A, Sharma P, Prakash O, Singh M, Kalani K, Khan F, Bawankule DU, Luqman S, Srivastava SK. 2014. QSAR and Docking Studies on Capsazepine Derivatives for Immunomodulatory and Anti-Inflammatory Activity. PLOS ONE 9 (7): e100797.
7. Sathish Kumar B, Kumar A, Singh J, Hasanain M, Singh A, Fatima K, Yadav DK, Shukla V, Luqman S, Khan F, Chanda D, Sarkar J, Konwar R, Dwivedi A, Negi AS. 2014. Synthesis of 2-alkoxy and 2-benzyloxy analogues of estradiol as antibreast cancer agents through microtubule stabilization. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 86: 740-751.
8. Luqman S*, Rizvi SI, Beer AM, Khare SK, Atukeren P. 2014. Efficacy of Herbal Drugs in Human Diseases and Disorders. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol. 2014, Article ID 273676, 2 pages.
9. Masood N, Luqman S*. 2014. A Method for Measuring Activity Difference of Phenolic and Non Phenolic Groups through ABTS Radical Cation. Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening 17: 718-722.
10. Luqman, S*. 2014. The Saga of Opium Poppy: Journey from Traditional Medicine to Modern Drugs and Nutraceuticals. Acta Horticulturae (ISHS) 1036: 91-100. http://www.actahort.org/books/1036/1036_9.htm
11. Maurya AK, Singh M, Dubey V, Srivastava S, Luqman S, Bawankule DU. 2014. α-(-)-Bisabolol Reduces Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Production and Ameliorates Skin Inflammation. Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology 15: 136-149.
12. Ahmed A, Singh DK, Fatima K, Tandon S, Luqman S*. 2014. New constituents from the roots of Oenothera biennis and their free radical scavenging and ferric reducing activity. Industrial Crops and Products 58: 125-132.
13. Sathish Kumar B, Singh A, Kumar A, Singh J, Hasnain M, Singh A, Masood N, Yadav DK, Konwar R, Mitra K, Sarkar J, Luqman S, Pal A, Khan F, Chanda D, Negi AS. 2014. Synthesis of neolignans as microtubule stabilizers. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 22: 1342-1354.