Dr. Nazar Hussain

Assistant Professor, Medicinal Chemistry Division, Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU-Varanasi

Dr. Nazar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University-Varanasi. His research interest is on the synthesis of C-glycosides, Pd-catalysed reactions, total synthesis of natural products and medicinal chemistry. During his doctoral thesis, he had extensively focussed on the synthesis of 2-C-branched sugars and their transformation into chiral aromatic building blocks. Dr. Nazar did his Postdoctoral Fellowship at Armand Frappier Research Institute-INRS, Canada, where he worked on the total synthesis of biological potent molecules along with the synthesis of some glycosidase inhibitors.