Studies in Natural Product Chemistry

Atta-ur-Rahman, Professor Emeritus, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry and Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research), University of Karachi, Pakistan, was the Pakistan Federal Minister for Science and Technology (2000-2002), Federal Minister of Education (2002), and Chairman of the Higher Education Commission with the status of a Federal Minister from 2002-2008. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS) and an UNESCO Science Laureate. He is a leading scientist with more than 1283 publications in several fields of organic chemistry.

1. Uses of natural biopolymers in food and biomedical applications 2. Prophylactic and therapeutic alternatives for respiratory diseases: technological innovations obtained in natural products 3. Essential oils as potential skin antiinflammatory agent and their mechanisms of action 4. Medicinal mushrooms as potential sources of anticancer polysaccharides and polysaccharideeprotein complexes 5. Polyphenol-mediated epigenetic regulation of human cancer breast 6. Recent patents based on natural products 7. Hybrid alkaloids: an approach toward development of better antimalarial therapeutics 8. Medicinally important natural bioactive compounds for leishmaniasis treatment: efficient alternate of toxic drugs 9. Metabolites in Moringa oleifera and their associated health potentials 10. Transformations of pentacyclic triterpenoids as a route to the future medicines 11. Recent developments on the chemical and biological activity studies of dihydro-b-agarofuran sesquiterpenoids