Md. Shahidul Islam, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Editor-in-Chief, World Journal of Diabetes

Potentials of some selected phyto-flavonoids in the management of type 2 diabetes and its associated complications

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Prof. Md. Shahidul Islam has completed his BSc (hons) and MSc degrees in Biochemistry from the Department of Biochemistry, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1997 and 1999, respectively. He has also completed his PhD in Nutritional Science from the Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Japan in September 2004. Subsequently, he has completed two consecutive Postdoctoral Fellowships from the Seoul National University, South Korea and North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa during 2005-2006 and 2006-2008, respectively. Very recently, Prof. Islam also spent considerable amount of time as a “Visiting Research Fellow” at the Department of Biochemistry and Stem Cell Research, National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad, India and as a “Visiting Associate Professor” at St. Claraspital Hospital, Basel, Switzerland. Currently, he is serving as an “Full Professor of Biochemistry” and Head of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology disciplines under the School of Life Sciences; College of Agriculture, Engineering and Sciences of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He achieved “Distinguished Teacher Award 2015” and “Top30 Researcher Award 2017 and 2019” from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He also achieved a number of awards from International Endocrine Society, Korean Endocrine Society, Japan Diabetes Society, Japanese Society for Surgical Metabolism and Nutrition, Pacific Science Association, International Diabetes Federation and many others in the previous years. Prof. Islam’s research focuses the development of novel non-genetic animal model of type 2 diabetes and obesity and investigating the antidiabetic and anti-obesogenic potentials and underlying mechanisms of various antidiabetic and anti-obesogenic drugs, medicinal and functional foods, sugar substitutes and artificial sweeteners, medicinal plant extracts, fractions and  their isolated pure compounds targeting novel drug discovery. Prof. Islam has been rated as a internationally recognized established researcher by the National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa. Currently, he is serving as a regular reviewer of more than 20 international peer reviewed journals in the field of his expertise and working as a Member of the Editorial Board of 5 international journals such as Frontiers in Pharmacology and Drug Discovery (Switzerland), Food and Nutrition Report (England), Journal of Biochemical and Pharmacological Research (USA), Recent Patents in Food, Nutrition and Agriculture (UAE), World Journal of Diabetes (China); and as a Lead Guest Editor of two international peer reviewed journals (Molecules and Journal of Diabetes Research). Recently, he has been appointed as an “Editor-in-Chief” of the “World Journal of Diabetes”. Prof. Islam has been selected as one of the Global Top 2% researcher by Mandeley during 2019 and as one of the Global Top 0.1% researcher in the area of Experimental Diabetes Mellitus by Expert Escape during 2021. So far Prof. Islam published 10 peer reviewed book chapters, more than 170+ research articles in the international peer reviewed journals including 10 reviews and two editorials since 2004. He has successfully supervised the research projects of 3 Postdoctoral Fellows, 9 PhD, 8 MSc and 22 Honors level students and currently supervising the research projects of 5 PhD and 2 Masters levels students. His current h-index: 33, i10-index: 92 and total citation 3846 as per Google scholar located at https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?hl=en&user=faUD7hYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works

 

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