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Personal/Contact Address
Educational Qualification
Special Training; Post Doctoral
Position Held
Awards and Honourd Received
Membership of Professional Bodies
Meetings, Symposia and Conferences Attended
Research Interests
List of Important Publications
Personal/Contact Address
Prof. Rafiqur Rahman
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of Dhaka.
Date of Birth: June 29, 1941
Present Designation :
e-mail : Rafiq@du.bangla.net
Phone: 966-1900-59 Extn.6095 (Office)
861-5953 (Residence)
Mailing Address
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Dhaka
Dhaka-1000,Bangladesh.
Educational Qualification
B.Sc (Biochemistry, 1961), University of Dhaka
M.Sc (Biochemistry, 1963), University of Dhaka.
Ph.D.(Chem, 1969), Dalhousie University,
Halifax, NS.Canada
Special Training: Post-Doctoral
1. 1969-1972, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
2. 1975-1979, Univ. of Connecticut Health ctr. Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
3. 1984-1986, Univ. of Connecticut Health Ctr. Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
Position Held
1. Assitance Prefessor, Department of Biochemistry, 1972-1979
2. Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, 1979-1989
3. Professor, Department of Biochemistry, 1989-present
4. Chairman, Department of Boichemistr of Biochemistry, University of Dhaka.1988-1991
5. President, Bangladesh Biochemistry Society,1990-94
6. Editor, Dhaka University Journal of Biol.Sci, 1995-1997
Awards and Honored Received
1. National Institute of Health (NIH), Post-doctoral Fellowship Award,1969-71.
2. Third World Academy of Science (TWAS), Trieste,Italy,1989, Research Grant
Membership of Professional Bodies
1. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAA).
2. Chemical Society (LONDON)
3. New Work Academy of Sciences
4. Life Member of The Bangladesh Biochemical Society
Meetings, Symposia and Conferences Attended
1. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) meeting, July 1968, London, England.
2. Federation of American Society, for Experimental Biology (FASEB) meetings:
Atlantic City, NJ USA 1972
Chicago, III, USA 1977
Dallas Tx, USA 1978
3. New England Endocrine Meeting, Boston, Mass. 1976
4. Biochemistry Meetings.
Providence, Rhode Island. 1984
Charlottsville, Virginia. 1985
5. Plant Biotech. Symposium, Islamabad, Pakistan. 1989
Research Interests
1. Chemistry of Natural Products
2. Diabetes Mellitus
3. Mechanism of Insuline Action
4. Herbal Hypoglycemis: Underlying Mechanism of Action.
List of Important Publications
1. Citric Acid Cycle in rat Kidney, M. M. Rahman, R. Rahman and K. Ahmed. Sixth Internationl Congress of Biochemistry, Newyork City, 1964.
2. The growth of Bacillus subtilis in Media Containg chetomin, Sporidesmin and Gliotoxin. D. Brewer, D. E. Hannan, R. Rahman and A. Tailor. Can. J. Microbiol. 13th, 1251, 1969.
3. A new Metabolite of Pitomyces chartarum related to the Sporidesmins. R. Rahman and A. Tailor. Chemical Communications, 1032, 1967.
4. A Toxic Metabolite of Pitomyces chartarum related to the Sporidesmins. D. Brewer, R. Rahman, Safe and A. Tailor. Chemical Commucnications, 1571, 1968.
5. Sporidesmin, Part 8. Isolation and structure of Sporidesmin -D and Sporidesmin-F. W. D. Jamieson, R. Rahman and A. Tailor. J. Chem. Soc. (C), 1564, 1969.
6. Sporidesmin. Part 9, Isolation and Structure of Sporidesmins-E. R. Rahman, S. Safe and A. Taylor. J. Chem. Soc. (C), 1965, 1969.
7. The Stereochemistry of Polysulfides, R. Rahman, S. Safe, and A. Taylor. Quarterly Reviews, 24, 208, 1970.
8. Separation of Polythiadioxopiperzine Antibiotics by thin layer Chromatography. R. Rahman, S. Safe and Taylor. J. Chromatog. 53, 592, 1970
9. Removal of the 4, 4-Dimethyl Carbons in teh Enzymic Conversion of Lanosterol to Cholesterol, Initial Loss of 4a-Methyl group . R. rahman, K. B. Sharpless, T. A. Spencer and R. B. Clayton. J. Biol. Chem., 245, 2667, 1970.
10. Sporidesmin. Part 12, Isolation and Structure of Sporidesmins-g, Naturally Occuring 3, 6- Epitetrathiopiperazine-2,5- dione E. Francis, R. Rahman, S. Safe, and A. taylor. J. Chem. Soc. Perkin-transactions, 1 470, 1972.
11. A new Desipeptide from Pithomyces chartarum. R. Rahman, A. Taylor, B. C. Das and J. A. Verporte. Can. J. Biochemistry. 9., 1360, 1967.
12. Effect of Insulim on Incorporation of 3H2Oand H14CO3 into Protein of rat Adipose Tissue. R. Rahman, and R. L. Jungas. Fedaration Proceedings, 36, 340, 1977.
13. Studies of Mitochodrial Respiration of Some High Citric Acid Yielding Mutants of Aspergillus Niger. M. Hossain, R. Rahman, N. Chowdhury and Iffat Hussain. J. of Fermentation Tech. 66, 253, 1978.
14. Analysis of some Radiation Induced Mutants of Aspegillus Niger for Citric Acid production in Cane Sugar Medium. M. Hossain, R. RAhman, N, Chowdhury, and Iffat Hussain. Bangladesh Journal of Microbiology, 1, 16, 1970.
15. Stimulation of Pyruvate Transporter of Fat Cell Mitochondria by Insulin. R. Rahman and R. L. Jungas. Abstracts of the Eleventh International Congress of Biochemists, P-618, 1979, Toronto.
16. Sexual Differentiation of Hepatic Meabolism okf corticosteron and Testosteron in the Rat. R. Rahman, And R. B. Clayton. J. Biochem, (Tokyo), 90, 1967, 1981.
17. Effects of Insulin on Carbon-di-oxide Fixation in Adipose Tissue, Evidence for Regualtion of Pyruvate Transport. R. RAhman, F. Rourke, and R. L. Jungas. J. Biol. Chem. 258, 483, 1983.
18. Hypoglycemic Effects of Coccnia Indica: Inhibition of key Gluconeogenic Enzyme, Glucose. Phosphatase. Mohammed Zahid Hossain, Baizid Alam Shibib and R. Rahman. Ind J. Expt. Biol. 30, 418, 1992.
19. Hypoglycemic activity of Coccnia indica and Momordica charntia in diabetic rats: depression of hepatic gluconeogenic enzymes glucose-6-phosphatse and fructose 1, 6- diphosphatase and elevation of both liver and red cell shunt enzyme glucose-6 phophate dehydrogenase, Baizid A. Shibib, Liakat Ali Khan and Rafiqur Rahman. Biochem. J. 292, 267, 1993.
20. Cholesterol lowering effect of HIlsa fish oil in female rats. Sushil Sinha and R. Rahman, Bangladesh J. Biochem 1, 9, 1995.
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