Prof. Dr. Choudhury Mahmood Hasan
Prof. Dr. Choudhury Mahmood Hasan
Director Technical and Director Finance
Brief Resume
Dr. Hasan joined the Department of Pharmacy, DU, in January, 1978 and progressed through the ranks to Professor in the same department in March, 1992. Continue with 30th June 2020. He was the Chairman of this Dept. from 1992 to 1993. He was the Director of Drug Administration, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, from July 1993 to January 1997. He was elected as the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy for two terms from 1999 to 2003. He was the Chairman of BCSIR (Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) from 11th August 2005 to 10th August 2008. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Manarat International University for four years from 13th October, 2012 to 12th October, 2016.
He was the member of Pharmacy Council (1993-1997, 2001-2008) and also the Chairman of Accreditation and Education Committee. Dr. Hasan, as a member of expert committee, played the pivotal role for the inclusion of "herbal drugs" in the National Drug Policy 2005 and which later on incorporated in the Drug Ordinance 2005.
His research focuses on the chemical and biological studies of local medical plants with emphasis on structure elucidation of the secondary metabolites by spectroscopic techniques (UV, IR, NMR, MS etc.). So far her supervised/co-supervised the research of few Ph.D and about 60 M.Pharm. students of Dhaka University. At present he is co-supervisor/co-supervisor of 8 Ph.D and 3 M.pharm students. He is the main/co-author of 297 peer-reviewed papers published in international and national scientific journals. He was the chairman/ co-chairman/ plenary lecturer/ presenter/ participator in 66 international seminars/symposia held in 25 countries of the world (including UK, USA, Japan, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Australia etc.).
For his outstanding contribution in medicinal plant research and in biological science he was awarded Habibur Rahman Gold Medal 2003, Bangladesh Academy of Science Gold Medal 2006 (senior group), Chandrabati Gold Medal 2007 and Atish Dipankar Gold Medal 2008.
Dr. Hasan is a member of American Chemical Society (ACS), American Society of Pharmmacognosy (ASP), Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (FBAS), Elected Vice President of FBAS, for 3 Years from 2019 and fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).