Faculty Details

Dr. Sarfaraz Alam

Assistant Professor

Department

Department of Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Contact Info

  • Post-doctorate: Mitacs Fellow @ University of Waterloo, Canada & Institutional Post-doc fellow @ IISER- Bhopal, India.
  • Ph.D.: (Biological Sciences): Council of Scientific & Industrial Research/(CSIR-CIMAP/AcSIR), (2018).
  • M.Sc.: (Biomedical Sciences): B.U., Jhansi, (2011).
  • B.Sc.: (Biomedical Sciences): B.U., Jhansi, (2009).

  • Chem-informatics.
  • Identification of drug-like molecules through molecular modelling studies.
  • Systems Pharmacology.
  • ADME/Toxicity & P.K. data analysis.
  • Structure-activity relationship through computational modelling.
  • Study to modulate the protein corona formation on nanoparticles.

  1. Alam, S., et al. (2023). Pharmacophore & QSAR Guided Design, Synthesis, Pharmacokinetics, and in vitro Evaluation of Curcumin Analogs for Anticancer Activity. Current Medicinal Chemistry. (IF 4.74).
  2. Ouassaf, M., Daoui, O., Alam, S., et al. (2022) Pharmacophore-based virtual screening, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics studies for the discovery of novel FLT3 inhibitors. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 1:13, 0739-1102. (IF 5.235)
  3. Alam, S., et al. (2021). Detection of natural inhibitors against human liver cancer cell lines through QSAR, Molecular Docking, and ADMET studies. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry,21(8), 686-695. (IF: 3.22)
  4. Das, A., Gangarde, Y. M., Tomar, V., Shinde, O., Upadhyay, T., Alam, S., … & Saraogi, I. (2020). Small-Molecule Inhibitor Prevents Insulin Fibrillogenesis and Preserves Activity. ACS Molecular Pharmaceutics, 17(6), 1827-1834. (IF: 4.396)
  5. Alam, S., & Khan, F. (2019). 3D-QSAR, Docking, ADME/Tox studies on Flavone analogs reveal anticancer activity through Tankyrase inhibition. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 5414. (IF: 4.12). (Featured as top 100 papers in chemistry in 2019).

  • Awarded Mitacs Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship, Canada
  • Awarded as a “Young Scientist Fellow” by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, India, with a research grant of INR 4000000.
  • Grant for participation in the “Second Science Conclave: A Congregation of Nobel laureates” by (MHRD & DST, Govt. of India).