Khalid Ahmed Asaad

Asaad Khalid is a Sudanese scholar, currently working as a research professor at the Substance Abuse Research Center in Saudi Arabia. He has established and headed the Medical Biochemistry at the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research Institute in Sudan during 2006-2013. Prof. Ahmed has earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 2003 at the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. M. Iqbal Choudhary. He won the AU-TWAS Young Scientists National Award 2011 and the Pakistan Academy of Medical Science (PAMS) Junior Gold Medal Award in 2005 and the Distinguished Achievement Award 2005-2006 from the Pakistan Association of Scientists and Scientific Professions. Prof. Asaad is an active researcher; he supervised 16 Ph.D. and 9 M.Sc. graduates. The research of Prof. Asaad focuses on drug discovery from medicinal plants. His target/cell-based research targets several tropical and neglected diseases including malaria, diabetes, tuberculosis, leishmaniases and trypanosomiasis. Prof. Asaad’s target-based drug discovery research utilizes biochemical and bioinformatics tools to discover drug candidates that target particular enzyme-related disease mechanisms.