•  Oral presentation on “Secondary Metabolites Isolated from an Endophytic Phoma sp. Absolute Configuration of Tetrahydropyrenophorol” Natural product as Drug, University of Paderborn Germany, from 13-14 October 2004.
• Oral Presentation on “Iodoxolone-Based Hypervalent Iodine Reagents” 4M2008 conference, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 09.-11.09.2008
• Oral presentation on “Synthesis of New Enantiomerically Pure Organoiodine Catalyst and Their Application in the Functionalization of Ketones” Bristol Synthesis meeting 15 April 2008, UK
• Oral presentation on “Phytochemical Investigation of Plants and Fungi” Organized by COMSATS-Tsinghua University China Workshop at the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University China from 17-25 May 2012.

Oral Presentations in National Conferences 

• Oral presentation on “Detection of the Secondry metabolites from locally grown Paeonia emodi (mameah)” proceeding of 2nd International Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESDev-2007), 17-19 August 2007.
• Oral presentation on “Compounds isolated from from Ballota limbata by Phytochemical Screening” proceeding of 2nd International Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESDev-2009), 10-13 August 2009.
• Oral presentation in International conference On Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESDev-August, 2011).
• Oral presentation on “Secondary Metabolites isolated from Achillea millefolium” in International conference International conference On Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESDev-2013), 22-24 August 2013

Other Participation:

• Participated in “8th International Symposium on Natural Product Chemistry” organized by HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi, 18-22, 2000.
•  Participated in “HEJ-COMSATS Workshops on the Use of Spectroscopy Techniques in the Structural Organic chemistry” jointly organized by HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry and COMSATS (Commission on Science and Technology for the Sustainable Development in the South) Feb. 14-21 2000.
•  Participated in the “International Workshop on Sustainable Use of Medicinal and Food Plants” jointly organized by HEJRIC, COMSATS and COMSTECH, Sep. 15-17, 2000.
•  Participated in “1st International and 11th National Chemistry Conference” Organized by University of Peshawar from 10-14 April, 2001.
• Participated in “2nd International 12th National Chemistry Conference” organized by University of Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan, from Feb. 4-6, 2002.
•  Participated in “7th Eruasia conference” organized by HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi, March 8-12, 2002.
•  Participated in “Pakistan-Bangladesh Binational conference on Natural Product Chemistry” organized by HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, from Sep. 24-26, 2003.
•  Participated in “3rd International and 13th National Chemistry conference” organized by Dep. Of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan from 28-31 Dec., 2003.
•  Participated in “9th International Symposium on Natural Product Chemistry” organized by HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, from 9-13 Feb. 2004.
• Participated in “10th International Symposium on Natural Product Chemistry” organized by HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, from 6-9 January 2005.

1. Theoretical/Computational Chemistry:

• Density Functional theory (DFT) studies
• Computer aided drug discovery (CADD)

Combined computational (Molecular docking, physiochemical properties analysis, MD simulation and experimental techniques have been utilized for identification of new leads for novel drug discovery like Tuberculosis and cancer.

• Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations studies

Exploring Protein Stability by Comparative Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Homologous Hyper thermophilic, Mesophilic, and Psychrophilic Proteins.

• Molecular Reaction Dynamics

Metal-doped silicon/germanium semiconductor clusters ·The microscopic mechanism of salt dissolution in water ·Interaction of metal clusters with organic molecules ·Interaction of metal oxides with water and small organic molecules and their relationship with catalytic mechanism

2. Enzyme Inhibition Studies:

Our group is currently working on different enzyme activities

Various new compounds have been identified as potent inhibitors of:

• Urease Enzyme
• Acetylcholine esterase Enzyme
• α-Glucosidase Enzyme

3. Natural Product Chemistry:

• Isolation of compounds from medicinal plants.
• Characterization and structure elucidation of pure compounds using various spectroscopic    techniques (¹H-NMR and ¹³C-NMR, Mass spectrometry, UV and IR spectroscopy)
• Their biological potential analysis namely antioxidant, antidiabetic, antibacterial, anti-biofilm, analgesic and anticancer activities.

4. Organic Synthesis:

Asymmetric Synthesis, Enantioselective α-Oxytosylation and α-Oxysulfonylation of Ketones Catalyzed by Chiral Hypervalent Organo-Iodine(ІІІ) Compounds

1. Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman Gold Medal and Cash prize for 2010 in the field of Chemistry by PAS.
2. Best Research paper award under the Program “HEC’S outstanding research award series” Govt. of Pakistan 2010
3. Productive Scientist for the year 2010 by PCST
4. Cash Award of Research Productivity allowance (RPA) (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012) 
5. Cash Award of Research Publication CIIT (2009-2014)
6. Got 7^th position in ranking of Pakistani Scholars in 2003 with respect to Publications (According to American Web of Science)
7. Member of the Chemical Society of Pakistan
8. German (BASF) Postdoctoral Fellow ship (2004)
9. HEC Approved Supervisor
10. HEC (Pak.) Postdoctoral Fellow ship (2007)
11. Scholarship awarded by “University Grants Commission”, Government of Pakistan, during Ph.D (2003)
12. Series of lectures delivered at University of Cardiff UK on different Organic Synthesis (2008-2009)

• Isolation, Structure elucidation and Biological activity of some Medicinal plants Belonging to family Lamiaceae and Compositae. (HEC), P.I.: Dr. Umar Farooq, Amount (Rs. 1.45 M), Completed
• Isolation, structure elucidation and biological activities of Secondary metabolites from some selected medicinal plants belonging to genera Symplocos and Ricinus (HEC), P.I:  Dr. Umar Farooq, Amount (Rs. 3.67 M), In Progress
• Bioactivity guided isolation of secondary metabolites from some selected medicinal plants of genera Polygonum & Fragaria. (HEC), P.I.: Dr. Umar Farooq, Amount (Rs. 7.775982 M), In Progress
• Isolation, Structural Elucidation, and Biological Activity of the Chemical Constituents of the Plants belonging to Family Betulaceae and Apiaceae. (HEC), Co-P.I: Dr. Umar Farooq, Amount (Rs. 3.4 M), In Progress
• Isolation, Structure Elucidation and Biological Activity of Nepeta suaris. (CIIT), P.I: Dr. Umar Farooq, Amount (Rs. 0.2 M), Completed
• Phytochemical and biological screening of Stachys parviflora. (CIIT), P.I: Dr. Umar Farooq, Amount (Rs. 0.2 M), Completed
• Phytochemical and biological screening of Verbena officinalis. (CIIT), Co-P.I: Dr. Umar Farooq, P.I: My PhD student, Amount (Rs. 0.140 M), In progress
• Insillico identification and In vitro evaluation of prospective inhibitors of alpha Glucosidase. (CIIT), Co-P.I: Dr. Umar Farooq, P.I: My PhD student, Amount (Rs. 0.188 M), In progress
• Effect of rigidity and flexibility on overall stability of proteins in extremophiles. (CIIT), Co-P.I: Dr. Umar Farooq, P.I: My PhD student, Amount (Rs. 0.240 M), In progress
• Dual inhibition of α-Amylase and α-Glucosidase and their mechanism of action by chemical based assay and computational studies. (CIIT), Co-P.I: Dr. Umar Farooq, P.I: My PhD student, Amount (Rs. 0.2 M), In progress