Saad Tayyab

Biography:

Dr. Saad Tayyab is currently working as a Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Before joining UCSI University in June 2022, Dr. Saad served the University of Malaya (2004-2022) as a Professor of Biochemistry at the Institute of Biological Sciences of the Faculty of Science. He received his B.Sc. (Honors) in Chemistry (1979), M.Sc. in Biochemistry (1981), M.Phil. in Biochemistry (1983) and Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1987), all degrees from the Aligarh Muslim University, India. Earlier, he served the University of Kashmir, India, as a Lecturer in Biochemistry (1987-1988), the Aligarh Muslim University, India, as a Lecturer in Biochemistry/Biotechnology (1988-1992), Lecturer-Senior Grade in Biotechnology (1992-1997), Reader in Biotechnology (1997-2001) and Alemaya University, Ethiopia, as Associate Professor in Biochemistry (2001-2004) under World Bank (ARTP) Project. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK, in December 2017 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB), UK, in July 2019. He has been a member of the American Chemical Society since January 2020 and a Life member of the Malaysian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Earlier, he received the Wood/Whelan Fellowship from IUBMB and ICSU for pursuing higher training at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA, during April/May 1994. Diagrams from his publications have been chosen for the journal cover page of Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology (2021) and Biopolymers (2020). One of his articles was selected in the 10^th Anniversary Collection on Molecular Modelling of RSC Advances (2021).    

Dr. Saad is currently serving as the Editorial Board Member of Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (since 2022), Protein and Peptide Letters (since 2019), Letters in Drug Design and Discovery (since 2015) and Biochemistry Research International (since 2013). He has also served as the Chief Editor of the Malaysian Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2015-2017). Dr. Saad has published over 150 journal papers, 17 popular articles, 1 book, 1 book chapter, 1 learning aid and 3 book reviews.  Several research students (16 Ph.D., 6 M.Phil., 1 M.D. and 13 M.Sc.) completed their degrees under his supervision, and he guided 32 undergraduate projects. His research interest includes drug-protein interaction, protein folding, protein/enzyme stability and protein structure-function. He possesses an h-index of 26, and his name is included in the reviewers’ list of many international journals.