Dr. Huzaifa Yasir Khan received his B.Sc (Hons.) degree and Master’s degree in Chemistry from Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, India. He was awarded prestigious DST INSPIRE Scholarship for five years during his undergraduate and master’s programme. He completed his Ph.D. degree in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Farukh Arjmand, Department of Chemistry, AMU on the topic “Synthesis and Characterization of tailored metal-based potential antitumor chemotherapeutic drug candidates” with ‘DST INSPIRE Fellowship’ (DST-JRF and SRF). Following his PhD, Dr Huzaifa Y. Khan  worked as ICMR Research Associate at Interdisciplinary Biotechnology unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh where he used different spectroscopic techniques to determine inhibitory potential of novel transition metal complexes against the aggregation of amyloid protein. The aggregation of amyloid protein is one of the hallmark of neurodegenerative disorder like Alzheimer. Millions of people worldwide get affected with neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Currently, we do not have an effective way to treat these diseases. Small molecule drug based therapies have been developed to some extent but these drugs are highly non-specific and toxic to healthy tissues as well. Conjugating small molecule drugs with nanoparticles/peptides that site-specifically targets diseased tissues offers a very promising strategy to overcome these challenges. His primary research interest is mainly focused on designing metal complexes to target various disease. His long term research interest lies in to test the efficacy of these therapeutic conjugates on animal model systems bearing amyloid aggregates. Dr Huzaifa has successfully completed CSIR skill development programme at NCL pune on DFT and delivered his oral/poster presentation at IIT madras, BHU, varanasi, IISER pune and Indian Council of Chemists and awarded Young scientist for the best oral presentation. (https://www.amu.ac.in/news/2023/1/02/amu-faculty-conferred-with-prof-wu-malik-memorial-award). He has published several research articles in international journal of repute with good impact factors. He also co-authored a book by Springer Nature entitled Advances and prospectus of 3d metal based drug candidates. https://www.amu.ac.in/news/2024/05/22/amu-vc-releases-a-book-on-anticancer-drug-candidates.