Fellowship of Indian Council of Medical Research at AMU

Written by AMU Correspondent
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Mr. Mohd Sajjad Ahmad Khan, Research Scholar, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University has been awarded with Senior Research Fellowship of Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi.

Mr. Sajjad will work on certain plants essential oils for their in vitro efficacy against drug resistant human pathogenic fungi in combination with antifungal drugs. Mr. Sajjad will work under the guidance of Dr. Iqbal Ahmad, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Microbiology. Dr. Ahmad's lab is well recognized for determination of biological activities of natural products against drug resistant microbial pathogens and developing novel strategies combating infections. Mr. Sajjad has published five research papers in reputed science journal and presented ten papers in National and International conferences with Dr. Iqbal Ahmad. He is also a recipient of Post Graduate Gold Medal (AMU) and has previously worked with Prof Javed Musarrat, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, AMU and Prof Moon Gyo Kim, Inha University, Korea.