Owais Mohammad is an Indian immunologist, nano-technologist and a professor at the interdisciplinary biotechnology unit of the Aligarh Muslim University.
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Owais Mohammad has co-edited two books, Modern Phytomedicine: Turning Medicinal Plants into Drugs and Combating Fungal Infections: Problems and Remedy, and has contributed chapters.
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Owais Mohammad's studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 60 of them.
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Owais Mohammad is a recipient of the Rashtriya Gaurav Award of the India International Friendship Society.
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Owais Mohammad's work has been displayed on cover pages of FEMS Immunol.
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Owais Mohammad did his undergraduate and post-graduate studies in Pharmacy from Delhi University, India, after which he pursued his doctoral research from Institute of Microbial Technology, one of premier biotechnology institutes in India and Panjab University, Chandigarh, under the mentorship of Prof.
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Owais Mohammad is currently serving as a professor of biotechnology at Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, working in the area of drug delivery since his joining in 1998.
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The research focus of Dr Owais Mohammad's group has been on:.
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Further, Dr Owais Mohammad has highlighted interactions between two mycobacterial proteins viz.
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Owais Mohammad demonstrated that Rv3619 protein disrupted the biomembrane and evoked a strong immunological response.
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Liposome-based DNA vaccine developed by Dr Owais Mohammad has shown remarkable promise against experimental murine brucellosis.
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Besides introducing liposome, niosome and microsphere based novel particulate vaccines; Dr Owais Mohammad has recently employed an autologous plasma bead based dual antigen delivery system as a prophylactic strategy against intracellular infections.
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The main emphasis of Dr Owais Mohammad has been therefore on addressing some of the problems associated with the liposomes as drug delivery systems.
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Owais Mohammad demonstrated that covalent attachment of anti-erythrocyte F2 to the liposomes surface enables the liposomes to specifically recognize the erythrocytes in vivo and deliver their contents to these cells.
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Owais Mohammad was awarded the Young Scientist Award in Life Sciences in 2002.
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Owais Mohammad is a member of editorial boards of several international journals including the Open Vaccine Journal, BioMed Research International, Journal of Clinical Medicine Research, Journal of Chinese Clinical Medicine, Biomedical Research, World Journal of Critical Infectious Diseases, World Journal of Experimental medicine.