Dr Waqar Aman
Assistant Professor
waqar.aman@ucp.edu.pk
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Dr. Waqar Aman is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Central Punjab. He has total 10 years international and national and post-PhD almost five years’ experience in the field of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. He graduated from University of Peshawar. He availed 90% overseas scholarship for MS leading to PhD program from HEC and he received his degree from Hanyang University, South Korea in the field of Medicinal Chemistry. He has 15 scientific publications in International Impact Factor Journals (I.F more than 45 and with total 463 citations). He has a strong teaching, research and communication skills that enables him to execute any given responsibility individually and in efficient way.
| MS leading to PhD | Medicinal Chemistry | Hanyang University, South Korea | 2016 |
| Pharm.D | Pharmacy | University of Peshawar | 2010 |
| Assistant Professor | University of Central Punjab, Lahore | 2019- Till date |
| Assistant Professor | Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat | 2016-2019 |
| Research Associate | Hanyang University, South Korea | 2012-2016 |
| Hospital pharmacist | Rehman Medical Institute, Peshawar | 2011-2012 |
| 1 | Waqar Aman, Junghun Lee, Minjung Kim, Songyi Yang, Hoyong Jung, Jung-Mi Hah, "Discovery of highly selective CRAF inhibitors, 3-carboxamido-2H-indazole-6- arylamide: In silico FBLD design, synthesis and evaluation," Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. (Impact Factor: 2.486) |
| 2 | Minjung Kim, Junghun Lee, Kyungjin Jung, Hyangmi Kim, Waqar Aman, Jae-Sang Ryu, Jung-Mi Hah, "Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of benzyl 2-(1H- imidazole-1-yl) pyrimidine analogues as selective and potent Raf inhibitors" Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters (Impact Factor: 2.486) |
| 3 | Hoyong Jung, Waqar Aman, Jung-Mi Hah, “Novel scaffold evolution through combinatorial 3D-QSAR model studies of two types of JNK3 inhibitors. " Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters (Impact Factor: 2.486) |
| 4 | Fakhar ud Din, Waqar Aman, Izhar Ullah, Omer Salman Qureshi, Omer Mustapha, Shumaila Shafique, Alam Zeb.“Effective use of nanocarriers as drug delivery systems for the treatment of selected tumors.”International Journal of Nanomedicine. (Impact Factor: 4.383) |
| 5 | Dr, Fakhar Ud Din, Ms. Komal Siddiqui, Mr. Abdul Waris, Ms. Habiba Akbar, Ms. Kinza Munir, Dr. Maria Mir, Dr. Waseem Khan, Dr. Waqar Aman. “Physiochemical modifications and nano particles strategies for improved bioavailability of poor water-soluble drugs”, Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology. |
| 6 | Junghun Lee, Hoyong Jung, Minjung Kim, Eunkyu Lee, Daseul Im, Waqar Aman, Jung-Mi Haha, “Discovery of novel 4-aryl-thieno [1,4] diazepin-2-one derivatives targeting multiple protein kinases as anticancer agents”, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. (Impact Factor: 2.923) |
| 7 | Fakhar ud Din, Sehrish Saleem, Fatima Aleem, Rida Ahmed, Noorul Huda, Sohail Ahmed, Nadra Khaleeq, Kifayat Ullah Shah, Izhar Ullah, Alam Zeb and Waqar Aman, “Advanced colloidal technologies for the enhanced bioavailability of drugs”, Cogent Medicine. |
| 8 | Jinwoong Kim, Byeongha Choi, Daseul Im, Hoyong Jung, Hyungwoo Moon, Waqar Aman & Jung-Mi Hah “Computer-aided design and synthesis of 3- carbonyl-5- phenyl-1H-pyrazole as highly selective and potent BRAFV600E and CRAF inhibitor”, Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry. (Impact Factor: 4.027) |
| 9 | Sajid Hussain, Farhat Ullah, Muhammad Ayaz, Syed Adnan Ali Shah, Azhar-ul-Haq Ali Shah, Syed Majid Shah, Abdul Wadood, Waqar Aman, Riaz Ullah, Abdelaaty A Shahat Fahd A Nasr “In Silico, Cytotoxic and Antioxidant Potential of Novel Ester, 3-hydroxyoctyl -5- trans-docosenoate Isolated from Anchusa arvensis (L.) M.Bieb. Against HepG-2 Cancer Cells”, Drug Design, Development and Therapy. (Impact Factor:3.254) |
| 10 | Namrah Khan, Fawad Ali Shah, Isra Rana, Muhammad Mohsin Ansari, Fakhar ud Din, Syed Zaki Husain Rizvi, Waqar Aman, Gwan Yeong Lee, Eun-Sun Lee, Jin-Ki Kim, Alam Zeb, “Nanostructured lipid carriers-mediated brain delivery of carbamazepine for improved in vivo anticonvulsant and anxiolytic activity”. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. (I.F: 4.213) |
| 11 | Vahid Nikoui, Saeed Mehrzadi, Muhammad Imran Khan, Waqar Aman, Sattar Ostadhadi, Ahmad Reza Dehpour, “Licofelone, a dual cyclooxygenase/5-lipoxygenase inhibitor, reverses endotoxin-induced impaired atrial chronotropic responsiveness to cholinergic stimulation in rats”. European Journal of Pharmacology. (I.F: 3.240) |
| 12 | Muhammad Zaman, Abdul Baseer, Syed Muhammad Farid Hasan, Waqar Aman, “Formulation development and in-vitro evaluation of gastroretentive drug delivery system of loxoprofen sodium: A natural excipients based approach”. Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. (I.F: 1.103) |
| 13 | Muhammad Imran Khan, Vahid Nikoui, Aamir Naveed, Faiza Mumtaz, Hamid Zaman, Adnan Haider, Waqar Aman, Abdul Wahab, Shahid Niaz Khan, Najeeb Ullah, Ahmad Reza Dehpour “Antidepressant-like effect of ethanol in mice forced swimming test is mediated via inhibition of NMDA/nitric oxide/cGMP signalling pathway”. Alcohol. (I.F: 2.50) |