Hina Siddiqui
1H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
Biography
Dr. Hina Siddiqui, Assistant Professor at the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan, since 2012. Dr. Siddiqui did her Ph. D. under supervision of Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary in the year 2010. She is working in the area of organic synthesis, medicinal and bioorganic chemistry. She was the visiting research scholar at the University of Kansas, USA, during 2007-2008, and later a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Organic Chemistry, University of Tubingen, Germany, in the year 2015. Dr. Siddiqui has 17 research publications in international journals of good impact factor. Moreover, her doctoral thesis has been published as a book by a German press. Her research interests include discovery of antioxidant compounds from natural and synthetic sources and development of new synthetic methodologies for use in drug development and to probe the chemical space through small drug like molecules. Currently she is working on anti-diabetic effect and reversal of bacterial multi drug resistance by synthetic molecules. She has delivered various lectures in different workshops, symposia and conferences. She has presented her research work at 11th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences held 6-10 October 2010 in Jordan, where she received the best presentation award amongst 200 presenters from 60 different countries. She has also received Research Productivity Award by Pakistan Council for Science and Technology twice. She is also the member of various national chemical societies.