Sadia Sultan
UiTM, Malaysia
- Orcid: 0000-0002-4549-8776
- Publications: 70
- Citations: 1342
- Keywords: Pharmaceutical Chemistry, drug action, stereochemistry
Short Bio
- Dr Sadia Sultan is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the Department of Pharmacology and Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy University Technology MARA UiTM Malaysia. She is heading the Biotransformation Research Group under Research Nexus UiTM (ReNeU), and Health & Wellness (HW). Five (5) Ph. D. and six (7) master’s students have already graduated under her supervision. Currently, she is supervising 2 Ph. D students. She has more than 18 years of Experience in the field of Natural Product Research. Her areas of Expertise include: • Biotransformation of exogenous substrates using microorganisms and plant tissue culture techniques. • Exploring bioactive secondary metabolites from Plant, Soil, and Marine Endophytic fungi. (Using Dereplication and OSMAC Approach). • Modern NMR spectroscopic approaches in the Elucidation of Secondary Metabolites • Biological screening using antimicrobial assays. • Mechanistic studies to understand metastasis breast cancer: towards the effects of microbial derivatives of Steroids & Terpenes using MDA-MB-231 CELLS INDUCED XENOGRAPH MODEL. She is the author of two e-books and two chapters including Polyesters, Molecular Modeling, Pharmaceutical Chemistry I and II, and Workbook of Pharmaceutical Chemistry II (Pearson, inTech-ISBN). She has over 70 research publications in top international journals (Q1, Q2) including high-impact factor journals like Pharmaceuticals (MDPI), European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Journal of Steroids, Tetrahedron Letters, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Molecules with cumulative impact factor of over 200 and 1500 citations, with h index 23 (Google scholar). Apart from that she is also an editor of the book Fungal Pathogenicity. Her current research is based on the utilization of modern NMR spectroscopic approaches in the Elucidation of Secondary Metabolites, Biotransformation of Exogenous Substrates, and Synthesis and Characterization of Bioactive Medicinal derivatives using Combinatorial Chemistry. For her research works she has been awarded several national grants as a principal investigator including e Science (Ministry of Science and Technology-MOSTI), FRGS, ERGS, PSI, DANA Fund, REI etc. Her research findings are also recognized at several conferences, competitions, and exhibitions and have been awarded with several awards like best poster awards, IITEX 2014, iidex gold, iidex silver, iidex bronze awards. Recently she is awarded with Vice Chancellor for her best performance from Vice-chancellor of UiTM. Her favorite activity is working alongside postgraduates and undergraduates in the laboratory on research problems involving natural product isolation and identification. When not in the lab and office, she likes to cook and spend time with her daughters and husband.
