KARACHI - The World Academy of Sciences Young Affiliation Network Executive Committee has elected Dr Sammer Yousuf, a Professor at the H E J Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, as its member. According to the spokesperson of the International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi, the appointment of Prof Sammer Yousuf as TYAN Executive Committee Member is based on her contribution towards structural chemistry.
Prof Dr Farzana Shaheen, the Director of the ICCBS, University of Karachi, congratulated Prof Sammer Yousuf for her achievement.
It is pertinent to mention here that with over 240 research papers and 3,900 citations on Google Scholar, Prof Sammer Yousuf is recognised for her research work in structural and bioorganic chemistry. Prof Sammer Yousuf’s discovery of anti-leishmanial constituents from the local medicinal plant Physalis minima has been patented in the USA and is set for clinical trials under a Sindh government-funded project. The Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University of Karachi, Prof Dr Khalid Mehmood Iraqi, Prof Dr Atta-ur Rahman, Professor Emeritus and former Federal Minister for Science and Technology, and Prof Dr M. Iqbal Choudhary, the Coordinator-General OIC-COMSTECH, and UNESCO CHAIR on Medicinal and Bio-Organic Natural Product Chemistry ICCBS, also congratulated Prof Sammer Yousuf for her achievement.
