Interview with Dr. Saleem on VC Award of Teaching Excellence 2022
A video highlighting our research work
Dr. Rahman Shah Zaib Saleem is employing organic chemistry tools in designing the drugs of the future and in materials. He joined LUMS in 2012 as an assistant professor. He has been interested in the development of organic methodology as well as the synthesis of the compound libraries to could modulate various cellular proteins involved in the cell cycle (notably kinases, centrosome clustering, Phosphohistonase 3P, MDM2-p53, tubulin, hIAPP). On the materials front, he is also working on the novel metal-free organic dyes for solar cell and organic scaffolds for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as well as the modification of the drug molecules to prepare nanoparticles for subsequent evaluation. As an organic chemist, he has also done the isolation, characterization & total synthesis of the natural products.
Post-doctoral/Work experience
Jan 2020- to date Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, SBASSE, LUMS
Jan 2012- Jan 2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, SBASSE, LUMS
Summer 2019 DAAD fellow, University of Saarland, Germany
Summer 2016 DAAD fellow, University of Saarland, Germany
Summer 2014 Herchel Smith Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK
Summer 2012 Post-Doctoral Research Visit, University of Bristol, UK
Education
2011 PhD, Michigan State University (Advisor: Prof. Jetze J. Tepe, Fulbright Fellowship)
2004 MPhil, GC University, Lahore, Pakistan
2002 MSc, GC University, Lahore, Pakistan (First position in the university)
2000 BSc, Punjab University, Lahore (Government College, Gujranwala), Pakistan
Roll of Honors
Academic roll of honor (2002)
Awards
2022 VC Teaching Excellence Award 2022, LUMS
2019 DAAD Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists, University of Saarland
2016 DAAD Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists, University of Saarland
2013-14 Herchel Smith Fellowship, University of Cambridge
2012 LUMS’ SSE Deans travel award for the summer research visit to University of Bristol
2006-11 Fulbright PhD Fellowship
2011 Dissertation completion fellowship
2011 Graduation school travel fellowship, Michigan State University
2006 Walter R. and Margaret W. Yates Memorial fellowship, Michigan State University
2006 XIVth star award 2005: 125 distinguished men & women: Leaders of the new millennium
2003 Orient Dr. Ata-ur-Rehman chemistry award and gold medal
2002 Academic Excellence Award, GC University Lahore
2002 Prof. Abdul Rashid Tariq Gold Medal, GC University Lahore
1998 President Talent Farming Award
1996 Jamiat Gold Medal
Chemical Geneology
Guillaume Francois Rouelle (1703-1770) (Apothecary 1725, Paris)
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+Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) (LLB 1764, Paris)
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+Jean Baptiste Michel Bucquet (1746-1780) (MD 1770, Paris)
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+Antoine Francois de Fourcroy (1755-1809) (MD 1780, Paris)
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+Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829) (MA 1790, Paris)
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+Louis Jacques Thenard (1777-1857) (MA 1797, Paris)
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+Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas (1800-1884) (none 1823, Geneva)
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+Josiah Parsons Cooke (1827-1894) (AB 1848, Harvard)
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+Charles Loring Jackson (1847-1935) (MA 1871, Harvard)
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+Henry Augustus Torrey (1871-1910) (PhD 1897, Harvard)
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+Roger Adams (1889-1971) (PhD 1912, Harvard)
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+Samuel Marion McElvain (1897-1973) (PhD – BioChem 1923, Illinois)
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+Gilbert J Stork (1921-____) (PhD 1946, Wisconsin)
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+Timothy Lee MacDonald (____-____) (PhD 1975, Columbia)
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+Jetze J Tepe (1968-____) (PhD 1998, Virginia) (MSU 2000-____)
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+Rahman Shah Zaib Saleem (____-____) (PhD 2011, MSU) (LUMS 2012-____)
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+Sharon Riaz (____-____) (PhD 2020, LUMS)