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Dr. Sajjad Ahmad

Foundation University Islamabad, Quaid-i-Azam University, University of Peshawar

Research areas: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics · Drug Discovery · Computational Drug Discovery Methods · vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches · Immunotherapy and Immune Responses

ORCID iD 0000-0003-0754-1742
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Dr. Sajjad Ahmad is an associate Professor at Department of Health and Biological Sciences, Abasyn University, Peshawar, Pakistan. My research interests are in the field of Computational Biology. In specific, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations of proteins to better understand their structural and dynamical features in the biological system. Another aspect of my research is to predict protein-ligand binding free energy using QM/MM Molecular Dynamics Simulations, MMGB/PBSA, Liner Interaction Energies, Thermodynamics Integration, Free Energy Perturbation, Bennet’s, and Water Swap methods for accurate ligand binding free energies prediction. Moreover, I am interested in the application of Quantum Mechanical Charge Field (QMCF) for investigating dynamics of biological molecules in solution. Exploration of bacterial genomes through subtractive proteomics and immune-informatics approaches is also another line of my research to underline essential drug and vaccine targets and to filter non-essential drug targets for anti-virulent compounds development. I am also interested in the use of system biology approaches for the design of subunit and peptide-based vaccine candidates for infectious pathogens. My recent interests are in viral and bacterial database development to assist researchers in the field of therapeutics development. Having a background in general microbiology and molecular bacteriology and with good knowledge of animal model studies, I also work in close collaboration with experimentalists on topics like antibiotics resistance, mutational studies, metagenomics, expression data, and many more.

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