Dr Sadia Sultan is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the Department of
Pharmacology and Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy University Technology MARA UiTM
Malaysia. She is heading the Biotransformation Research Group under Research Nexus UiTM
(ReNeU), and Health & Wellness (HW). Five (5) Ph. D. and six (7) master’s students have already
graduated under her supervision. Currently, she is supervising 2 Ph. D students. She has more than 18
years of Experience in the field of Natural Product Research.
Her areas of Expertise include:
Biotransformation of exogenous substrates using microorganisms and plant tissue culture
techniques.
Exploring bioactive secondary metabolites from Plant, Soil, and Marine Endophytic fungi. (Using
Dereplication and OSMAC Approach).
Modern NMR spectroscopic approaches in the Elucidation of Secondary Metabolites.
Biological screening using antimicrobial assays.
Mechanistic studies to understand metastasis breast cancer: towards the effects of microbial
derivatives of Steroids & Terpenes using MDA-MB-231 CELLS INDUCED XENOGRAPH MODEL.
She is the author of two e-books and two chapters including Polyesters, Molecular Modeling,
Pharmaceutical Chemistry I and II, and Workbook of Pharmaceutical Chemistry II (Pearson,
inTech-ISBN). She has over 70 research publications in top international journals (Q1, Q2)
including high-impact factor journals like Pharmaceuticals (MDPI), European Journal of
Medicinal Chemistry, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Journal of Steroids,
Tetrahedron Letters, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Molecules with cumulative
impact factor of over 200 and 1500 citations, with h index 23 (Google scholar). Apart from that
she is also an editor of the book Fungal Pathogenicity. Her current research is based on the
utilization of modern NMR spectroscopic approaches in the Elucidation of Secondary
Metabolites, Biotransformation of Exogenous Substrates, and Synthesis and Characterization of
Bioactive Medicinal derivatives using Combinatorial Chemistry. For her research works she has
been awarded several national grants as a principal investigator including e Science (Ministry of
Science and Technology-MOSTI), FRGS, ERGS, PSI, DANA Fund, REI etc. Her research
findings are also recognized at several conferences, competitions, and exhibitions and have been
awarded with several awards like best poster awards, IITEX 2014, iidex gold, iidex silver, iidex
bronze awards. Recently she is awarded with Vice Chancellor for her best performance from
Vice-chancellor of UiTM. Her favorite activity is working alongside postgraduates and
undergraduates in the laboratory on research problems involving natural product isolation and
identification. When not in the lab and office, she likes to cook and spend time with her daughters
and husband.
