Department of Pharmacy, Jahangirnagar University
We study how natural products and modern formulations can become safer, more effective medicines, combining wet-lab pharmacology, animal models and computational methods.
83
Publications
78 articles, 5 books and chapters
17
PhD researchers supervised
6 completed, 11 ongoing
130+
MS and honours theses
60+ MS, 70+ honours
what we study
Our questions start with the medicines people in Bangladesh actually use, from traditional plant remedies to generic tablets on pharmacy shelves. We test what works, measure what harms and design better ways to deliver drugs.
Testing Bangladeshi medicinal plants for the activities traditional medicine attributes to them, and identifying the compounds responsible.
Measuring how pesticides, heavy metals and contaminants damage the body, and whether plant compounds can protect against that damage.
Using docking, ADMET prediction and pharmacoinformatics to understand how drugs and natural compounds interact with their targets.
Designing tablets, pellets and hydrogels that release medicines at the right rate and in the right place.
Building and validating the HPLC and UV methods that quality control laboratories rely on.
Exploring sonodynamic and photodynamic therapy and plant-derived anticancer agents.
Working with physician researchers on diabetes care, pain medicine, maternal health and medicine use in Bangladesh.
principal investigator
Principal Investigator
Professor, Department of Pharmacy, Jahangirnagar University
selected work
BK Sarkar, MJI Polash, MJ Islam, MA Hanif, N Jannat, SK Kundu, ...
BK Sarkar, A Khan, B Saha, S Sarker, F Akter, BK Sarkar, T Ahmed, ...
AK Azad, M Mallandrich Miret, SK Kundu
MS Roy, BK Sarkar, SK Kundu
MS Roy, BK Sarkar, MR Nadvi, AP Sarkar, SK Kundu, H Ahmed, MJ Islam, ...
MMH Miraz, MA Ullah, AA Nayem, B Chakrobortty, S Deb, A Laskar, ...
the people
Doctoral researchers from hospitals, universities and the pharmaceutical industry work alongside MS and B.Pharm students in the lab.
Principal Investigator
Professor, Department of Pharmacy
PhD Research Fellow
PhD Research Fellow
PhD Research Fellow
PhD Research Fellow
PhD Research Fellow
PhD Research Fellow
PhD Research Fellow
where we work
Jahangirnagar University was established on 20 August 1970 and formally opened on 12 January 1971. It is a fully residential public university set on a 697-acre green campus in Savar, about 30 km from central Dhaka, with 36 departments across six faculties and more than 15,000 students.
The Department of Pharmacy belongs to the Faculty of Biological Sciences. It trains pharmacists through a five-year professional B.Pharm programme and offers the M.Pharm, a weekend MS in Pharmaceutical Sciences, and MPhil and PhD research degrees. Its graduates work across Bangladesh's pharmaceutical industry, hospitals, regulatory bodies and universities, at home and abroad.
1970
University established
697acres
Residential campus in Savar
5years
Professional B.Pharm programme
MPhil & PhD
Research degrees offered
We welcome motivated PhD, MPhil, MS and B.Pharm students, as well as clinicians and industry scientists who want to pursue research.