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Professor Satya Sarker
Professor Satya Sarker joined University of Wolverhampton as a Professor of Pharmacy in November 2008. Prior to this appointment, he worked as a Reader in Pharmacy in Ulster University, and was the Chair of the MPharm Course Planning Team, and the Course Director for the BSc (Hons) Pharmacology and the PgD/MSc Pharmaceutical Sciences programmes.

Prof Sarker obtained his BPharm (Hons) and MPharm from Dhaka University, and secured first class first position in order of merit in both programmes. He worked there, first, as a Research Fellow, and then, as a Lecturer in Pharmacy. He carried out PhD research in Pharmaceutical Sciences in the University of Strathclyde, and completed his PhD in 1995.

Prof Sarker had worked as a BBSRC Post-doctoral Fellow in Exeter University, Senior Natural Products Scientist and Head of Spectroscopy Group, in the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, and Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Robert Gordon University (RGU). In RGU, he led the Natural Products and Medicinal Chemistry Research Ggroup, and founded Phytopharmaceutical Research Laboratory. He was also an elected member of the Academic Council, the highest executive body of the RGU.

He had been a Visiting Professor in Stamford University and El-Fateh University, and has recently been offered a Visiting Professorship in Pharmacy in North-South University. Prof Sarker is an international advisor to the State University of Bangladesh.

Prof Sarker authored/co-authored well over 280 publications, ranging from books, several book chapters, reviews and research papers in almost all peer-reviewed leading journals dedicated to natural products research. He is the co-editor of the books Natural Products Isolation, 2nd edition, and Magnolia: The Genus Magnolia, published, respectively, by Humana Press in 2005 and Taylor and Francis in 2001. Together with his wife (Dr Lutfun Nahar, who is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry at the university of Wolverhampton), he wrote the textbook, Chemistry for Pharmacy Students: General, Organic and Natural Products Chemistry, published in 2007 by the Wiley and Sons. Professor Sarker. A Spanish version of this book was also published in 2009.

His research work is mainly in the area of Natural Products Drug Discovery as well as in the area of Rational Drug Design. His research focuses on anticancer, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antimicrobial properties (against multiple-drug-resistant bacterial strains, e.g. MRSA) of purified compounds from natural sources as well as novel synthetic organic compounds. Prof Sarker has established research collaborations with various research groups in the UK and abroad. He has supervised several UG and PG research students, and post-doctoral research fellows.

In January 2010, Prof Sarker took over as the Editor-in-Chief of the leading Wiley journal, Phytochemical Analysis, for which he had served in the Editorial Advisory Board for several years. He is currently in the editorial advisory board of the journals, Natural Product Communications, Chromatographia, International Journal of Phytomedicine, The Open Natural Product Journal, International Journal of Synthesis and Characterization (IJSC), DARU, Tripolitan Medical Journal, Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy, Pharmacognosy Magazine, Pharmacognosy Research and Stamford Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He was the Guest Editor for the special issue of Natural Product Communications dedicated to Professor Peter Waterman. He regularly reviews articles for over 40 international journals, and reviewed >50 papers during 2009. Since June 2008, Prof Sarker has been serving as the Honorary Treasurer of the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE).

Prof Sarker founded the on-line discussion groups NatProDis (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/natprodis.html) and PharmEd (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/pharmed.html), hosted by the jiscmail.ac.uk, and is the owner and moderator of these groups.