Ongoing Researches: Department of Pharmacy

Biological Assays & Techniques

Key Instrumentation Handled

Key Software Skills

• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Statistical Analysis (ANOVA, SPSS, GraphPad Prism)
• EndNote (Reference Management)
• Molecular Docking (basic)

Key Professional Certifications & Training

Key Professional Experience (Non-Academic)

• Natural products based new drug discovery
• Clinical studies of well-known medicinals plants of Bangladesh 
• Development of High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic (HPLC) methods for analysis of medicinal extracts
• Ethno-pharmacology and
• Phytochemistry

• Structural Biology
• RNA Structure Determination through NMR
• Enzyme kinetics
• 3 Dimensional Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship Studies
• Pharmacological research and Chronic toxicological studies
• Clinical Microbiology

Medicinal Chemistry 

Natural Product Chemistry

Dr. Anwar and his team have been working in multifaceted research areas notably Antibiotics resistance and pollutions, Foot-and-Mouth Disease Viruses, WSSV, As-microbiome, COVID-19 and long-COVID, Mastitis and Mastitis microbiome, Genomics and bioinformatics. Professor Anwar has been awarded research grants equivalent to 1.5 million US dollars by different funding agencies from home and abroad like World Bank, UGC, the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, The World Academy of Science, Bangladesh Academy of Science-United States Department of Agriculture etc. He has established research collaborations with various national and international research groups likes World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) reference laboratories APHIS, USA, Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Pirbright Institute, UK, University of Rhein-Waal, Germany, Computational Biology Institute, Milken Institute School of Public Health, the George Washington University, USA and a number of nation-wide collaborations. As part of his passion for research, he has established two modern biotech research BSL-2 and a BSL-1 laboratories in the University of Dhaka and one advanced Genomic research laboratory in JUST.

 Dr. Hossain attained research excellence globally for his research innovation in Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine. In 2018, most effective trivalent vaccine against FMD had been invented and declared by his team at a press conference, organized by the Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP), UGC authority.

• Clinical and Hospital Pharmacy
• Clinical and Basic research of  Pharmacology
• Clinical and Hospital Microbiology
• Public Health

1. Studies on the antioxidant, cytotoxic, antimicrobial, antidiabetic, antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activities of Bangladeshi medicinal plants.
2. Isolation and characterization of bioactive compounds from Bangladeshi medicinal plants which involves various chromatographic methods with advanced spectrophotometric analysis.
3. Isolation of endophytic fungi from fresh medicinal plants of Bangladesh followed by their extraction and isolation of various bioactive compounds. 
4. Evaluation of the role of selected molecules to improve vascular dysfunction in cardiovascular diseases using a combination of in-silico, in vitro, in vivo and biomolecular techniques 

• Clinical Pharmacology
• Cancer Pharmacology
• Phytopharmacology
• Drug discovery from natural sources
• Public health

• Synthetic chemistry
• Pharmacology
• Bioinformatics
• Public health

• Study of prevalence and genomic landscape of multidrug resistant pathogenic bacteria in clinical isolates obtained from patients.
• Epidemiological studies on different categories of diseases prevailing among Bangladeshi population and assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of Bangladeshi population regarding various issues related to public health.
• Prescription behavior and evaluation of clinical parameters of patients suffering from various communicable and non-communicable diseases.
• Studies on in vitro pharmacological activities like antioxidant, cytotoxic, antimicrobial etc. of Bangladeshi medicinal plants.
• Pharmaceutical Sciences

• In silico drug design
• Material Chemistry
• Public health

• Natural products: 
• Evaluation of phytochemical and pharmacological properties of medicinal plants of Bangladesh and their associated endophytic fungi as well as isolation of bioactive compounds from those natural sources.
• Microbiology: 
• Investigating microbial prevalence in biological samples and the antimicrobial resistance pattern. 
• Public Health: 
• Studying knowledge, attitude, and practice of Bangladeshi population regarding various public health related issues.
• Assessment of prescribing trends of drugs and clinical parameters of patients during different types of communicable and non-communicable diseases.
• Analyzing prevalence of risk factors for various types of diseases among Bangladeshi population.

Primary Research Interest: Diabetology & Insulin Resistance, ROS, Ion Channels, Cardiology, Cell Signaling & MMDA

Secondary Research Interest: Public Health

• Phytochemistry & Public health

• Microbiology and Clinical survey