Prof. Shamsuzzaman completed his Ph.D. From AMU in 1983. He has been a recipient of JRF, SRF & PDF of CSIR, New Delhi. He is an awardee of Liverhulme Commonwealth/USA Visiting Fellowship to work at Queens University, Belfast, U.K. and Monbusho Fellowship (Govt. of Japan) to work at Ehime University, Matsuyama. Before Joining AMU as Reader in 1998 he was working as Senior Lecture in the Department of Chemistry, JMI, New Delhi. His main research interests include synthetic organic chemistry with special reference to steroids, their synthesis, derivatization and biological evaluation for antimicrobial and anticancer activity. His teaching interests include general organic chemistry, reaction mechanisms, stereochemistry, applications of organic spectroscopy etc. He has published about hundred research papers in reputed national & international journals which include J. Org. Chem. (Am. Chem. Society), 'RSC Avvance, New J. Chem.,J. Chem. Res. (Royal Chem. Society), Tetrahedron Letters, Steroids, Heterocycles (Japan), European J. Medicinal Chem., Synth. Communications(USA), Medicinal Chem. Res., J. Photochem. Photobiol.B, J. Crystal Growth, Acta Crystal.E, J.Biotech. Biomater.,J. Chem. Sc., Spectochimica Acta A:Mol. Biomol. Spectroscopy, J. Mol. Structure, Comptes Rendus Chimie, Acta Chimica, Chinese Chem. Letters, Chinese J. Chem., J. Chil. Chem. Soc., Indian J. Chem.B etc. Key Publications: 1.3-Acetoxy-6-nitrocholest-5-ene:Crystal structure, thermal, optical and dielectrical Behavior Shamsuzzaman, Ashraf Mashrai, Hena Khanam, Y. N. Mabkhot, W. Frey J. Molecular Structure, 1063, 219â??225 (2014) IF=1.599 2.Synthesis, evaluation and docking studies on steroidal pyrazolones as anticancer and antimicrobial agents, Shamsuzzaman, A. Mashrai, A. Ahmad, A.M.Dar, H. Khanam, M. Danishuddin, A. U. Khan Med. Chem. Res., 23, 348-362 (2014). IF=1.612 3.Synthesis, molecular docking and biological evaluation of new steroidal 4H-pyrans Shamsuzzaman, A. M. Dar, A. Sohail, S. Bhat, M. F. Mustafa, Y. Khan Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Mol. Biomol. Spectroscopy, 117, 493-501 (2014). IF=2.129 4.DNA binding, docking studies, artificial nuclease activity and in vitro cytotoxicity of newly synthesized steroidal 1H-pyrimidines Shamsuzzaman, A. M. Dar, S. Tabassum, M. Zaki, Y. Khan, A. Sohail, M. A. Gatoo Comptes Rendus Chimie, 17, 359â??369 (2014). IF=1.483 5.Construction of novel steroidal isoxazolidinone derivatives under Vilsmeier-Haack conditions Shamsuzzaman, Hena Khanam, Ashraf Mashrai, Nazish Siddiqui Tetrahedron Letters, 54, 874-877 (2013). IF=2.391 6.Synthesis and anti-tumor evaluation of B-ring substituted steroidal pyrazoline derivatives Shamsuzzaman, Hena Khanam, Ashraf Mashrai, Asif Sherwani, M. Owais, N. Siddiqui Steroids, 78, 1263-1272 (2013) IF=2.829 7. Synthesis and biological studies of steroidal pyran based derivatives Shamsuzzaman, Ayaz Mahmood Dar, Yusuf Khan, Aamir Sohail J. Photochem. Photobiol., B: Biology, 129, 36-47 (2013) IF=3.11 8.Synthesis, growth, spectral, thermal and crystallographic studies of 5α, 6α- epoxy cholestane single crystals Shamsuzzaman, Hena Khanam, Ashraf Mashrai, Musheer A. Yahia N. Mabkhot, Wolfgang Frey, Nazish Siddiqui J. Crystal Growth, 384, 135-143 (2013) IF=1.752 9.Synthesis, antibacterial and antifungal activities of 6, 5-fused steroidal Oxazoles in cholestane series Shamsuzzaman, M.S. Khan, M. Alam, Z. Tabassum, A. Ahmad, Asad U. Khan European J. Med. Chem., 45, 1094-1097 (2010) IF=3.499 10.A Convenient Method for Synthesis of Some 4-ene-6-one Steroids. Shamsuzzaman, S. Ahmad, B. Z. Khan, Shafiullah J. Org. Chem., (USA), 56, 1936 (1991) IF=4.638