Safaet Alam

Mr. Safaet Alam is a young Bangladeshi scientist in the field of natural product chemistry and phytochemistry. He is currently working at the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka. He has obtained his B.Pharm Professional and M.Pharm degrees from the University of Dhaka. Previously, he has serving experiences of one year in a pharmaceutical company as a product executive and two and half years as a lecturer in another private university. His core interest resides in drug discovery employing natural product chemistry and thus his most recent works are focused on the assessment of the safety and pharmacological efficacy profiles of traditional medicines, and other plant products along with currently existing synthetic drugs which can be used against various ailments including diabetes, microbial infection, and SARS-CoV-2 viral infection etc. Besides, he is also working on in vivo and in vitro evaluation of several crude plant extracts and isolated bioactive secondary metabolites along with computer-aided molecular docking techniques. He is also keen on cancer biology research, gene mutation and molecular biology. He has authored or coauthored more than 40 research publications in several international peer-reviewed journals published by renowned publishers including Elsevier, Cell Press, Springer Nature, Wiley, Frontiers, MDPI, Hindawi and Biomed Central etc. He has over 400 citations with an h-index of 12 to date.