Dr Asad U. Khan, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh has been selected for a prestigious DBT-CREST Award for cutting edge Research enhancement in his field of interest. Dr Khan is visiting as research Scientist in one of the laboratory in Hospital De Bicetre, Paris, France for a period of 3 months.
Dr. Asad is working on various therapeutic approaches to combat with infections caused by drug-resistant microorganisms. His research group is actively involved in understanding the molecular mechanism of drug resistance as well as designing new molecules as effective drug candidates. Dr Khan has also been awarded Most Active Teachers Award of 2010, Alembic Award in 2009, Young Scientist Award of AMI in 2006, and BOYSCAST Fellowship of DST in 2005. Recently he has published a book on Multi-Drug resistance and has 90 Research articles in journal of international repute to his credit. He is member of editorial board of various international journal of his field.