
Dr Mukhlesur Rahman
Associate Professor
Research Group Lead of Medicines Research Group
Department of Bioscience , School Of Health, Sport And Bioscience
Dr Mukhlesur Rahman is an Associate Professor in Pharmaceutical and Natural Product Chemistry and Subject Area Lead of Drug and Chemical Sciences. He has also led the Medicines Research Group since 2020. At UEL, he designed and developed both BSc (Hons) Pharmaceutical Science and MSc Pharmaceutical Science and served as Programme Leader for both courses between 2012-2019.
Qualifications
- BPharm (Hons) with First Class
- MPharm with First Class
- PhD
Areas Of Interest
- Bioassay guided isolation and identification of anti-infective lead compounds from medicinal plants
- Bioactive secondary metabolites from the cultural broth of microbes
- Synthesis of bioactive natural products and their analogues
- Application of 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy in drug discovery
- Ethnopharmacological surveys to exploit indigenous knowledge in drug discovery
- Applications of HPLC, UPLC, LCMS and GSMS in the quality control of herbal medicines
Publications
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- Antimicrobial potential of the leaves of Citrus grandis (L.) Osbeck collected from Iraq: Bioassay-guided isolation of sinensetin as the anti-MRSA compound Fitoterapia. (Art. 106393), p. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fitote.2025.106393
- Application of computational methods for the isolation of plant secondary metabolites in: Sarker, S. D. and Nahar, L. (ed.) Computational Phytochemistry (Second Edition). Amsterdam (NE), London (UK), Cambridge (US): Elsevier, pp.147-186
- Antileprotic drugs in: Acharya, P. C. and Kurosu, M. (ed.) Medicinal Chemistry of Chemotherapeutic Agents: A Comprehensive Resource of Anti-Infective and Anti-cancer Drugs. Academic Press, pp.267-282
- Antitubercular drugs in: Acharya, P. C. and Kurosu, M. (ed.) Medicinal Chemistry of Chemotherapeutic Agents: A Comprehensive Resource of Anti-Infective and Anti-cancer Drugs. Academic Press, pp.217-265
- Bioactivity and In Silico Studies of Isoquinoline and Related Alkaloids as Promising Antiviral Agents: An Insight Biomolecules. 13 (1), p. Art. 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13010017
- Editorial: Natural products as potential therapeutics to tackle life-threatening infections: From field to market Frontiers in Pharmacology. 13 (Art. 1099181). https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2022.1099181
- Antitubercular activity assessment of fluorinated chalcones, 2-aminopyridine-3-carbonitrile and 2-amino-4H-pyran-3-carbonitrile derivatives: In vitro, molecular docking and in-silico drug likeliness studies PLoS ONE. 17 (Art. e0265068). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265068
- Antimicrobial Diterpenes: Recent Development From Natural Sources Frontiers in Pharmacology. 12 (Art. 820312). https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2021.820312