About
Dr. Shazia Anjum is one of the young emerging scientists of Pakistan with 85 international publications in leading scientific journals. She has throughout 1st class and 1st position in the academic career. Dr. Anjum obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2001 HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi; she has over 3 years of teaching experience in Medicinal Chemistry/Natural Product Chemistry as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Anjum has two years of Research Associate experience working at University of Saskatchewan, Canada- where she has accomplished the synthesis of several naturally occurring aminoglycosides- it has activity against S. aureus and K. pneumonia. She has also 2 years Medicinal Chemist experience working in a Canam Bioresearch, a biotech company in Canada and, she has one year experience of working as a Senior Scientific Officer in a government based industry in Pakistan. She is presently the Director of Cholistan Institute of Desert Studies, the Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. The research of her interest revolves mainly around Medicinal Chemistry/Natural Product Chemistry. In year 2002 she won one-year postdoctoral scholarship from Ministry of Education and Culture, Spain, as a result of one-year research she was able to evaluate a new pathway for the synthesis of bicyclic cycloproanone. She has number of international and national awards to her credit.
Employment
Employment history is unavailable.
Education
Education history is unavailable.
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (84)
- Synthesis of 3,3′-neotrehalosadiamine and related 1,1′-aminodisaccharides using disarmed, armed, and superarmed building blocks Save
- Synthesis of bioactive natural products by propargylic carboxylic ester rearrangements Save
- The anti-arthritic and immune-modulatory effects of NHAG: A novel glucosamine analogue in adjuvant-induced arthritis Save
- A previously unrecognized kanosamine biosynthesis pathway in Bacillus subtilis Save
- Anti-arthritic effect of GN1, a novel synthetic analog of glucosamine, in the collagen-induced arthritis model in rats Save
- Kaurane-type diterpenoids from Chromoleana odorata, their X-ray diffraction studies and potent α-glucosidase inhibition of 16-kauren-19-oic acid Save
- Duboscic acid: A potent -glucosidase inhibitor with an unprecedented triterpenoidal carbon skeleton from duboscia macrocarpa Save
- Synthesis and antileishmanial and antimicrobial activities of some 2,3-disubstituted 3H-quinazolin-4-ones Save
- Structural determination of crotamides A and B, the new amides from Croton sparsiflorus Save
- A pentacyclic triterpene from Litchi chinensis Save