Prof. (Dr.) Farhan Jalees Ahmad
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Farhan Jalees Ahmad, PhD, is currently a Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Education & Research Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India is an internationally known researcher in the area of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Having obtained his degree in M.Pharma and Ph.D (Pharmaceutics) from Jamia Hamdard, he continues to teach and leads a very productive research group which has been funded extensively by National and international funding agencies.
Dr. Ahmad has 27 years of rich experience in Research and Teaching. He has experience of industrial research through his fruitful association with Ranbaxy Research Laboratories for six long years as Scientist. His domain of research therein included development, scale-up, technology transfer and launching of pharmaceutical products, both for domestic and international markets.
He is working in the area of Nanomedicine for the last 18 years and has published a number of research papers on nanomedicine in peer reviewed journals. Two of his nanoproducts are approved by Drug Controller of India for Phase-III clinical studies. He has organized many International conferences and more than 40 National symposiums, workshops and seminars. Besides, he is also working on amalgamation of herbal medicinal plants with modern therapeutics in order to deliver a scientifically acceptable therapy for various diseases.
He has been granted projects to a tune of rupees 5.5 crores from National agencies like DBT, CCRUM, AYUSH, UGC, DST and International agencies like FIP and OPCW etc. He is also involved in nationally conceived projects under the aegis of institutes like INMAS, GB Pant Hospital, RBTB Hospital and IIT, Delhi.
He has earned many accolades including Young Scientist Fast Track from DST, Scientist of the Year-2005 from NESA, UGC Research Award 2011, Bharat Jyoti Award 2011, Pharma Ratan 2017, ABAP Senior Scientist Award 2017 and also prizes in scientific poster session in National Pharmacy Symposium. In the year 2019 he has been selected for LEAP program by ministry of HRD where he ranked first amogst applicants across India.
He has two US patent, three PCT and 24 Indian patents to his name. He has published more than 350 research and review papers, 12 Book chapters, 9 books with a total citation of 13059, H-Index of 52 and i-10 index of 288 and attended many national and international conferences for presentation of research papers. He has guided around 35 M.Pharm students and about 33 PhD scholars. Besides this, he is offering consultancy to small pharmaceutical setups for pharmaceutical product development and scale-up, and troubleshooting specific problems.
He has been an expert, chairman, co-chairman, invited speaker, co-ordinator and examiner of various seminars, workshops in and outside the university.
He played a pivotal role in developing and maintaining the state-of-the-art Nanomedicine Lab and Central Instrumentation Facility at Faculty of Pharmacy. He is an active member of bodies like IPA, APTI, NESA, MAAS, IPGA, IHPA, CRS and ICA, and also holds their life memberships. He has served IPA, Delhi Branch in the capacity of Member Executive Committee, Honorary Secretary and as President for two terms and also served as General Secretary for SPDS, North chapter.