Fellow

Professor Satyajit D Sarker

(Expatriate Fellow, 2023)

Prof Satyajit D Sarker, Professor of Pharmacy & Director (Executive Head) of the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, is the Founding Head of the Centre for Natural Products Discovery at Liverpool John Moores University. He is a Visiting Professor at East Anglia University and has served Taylor’s University, Mae Fah Luang University and the Wuhan Botanical Garden - the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the same capacity. He is the recipient of the Outstanding International Ethnopharmacologist 2023 Award.

He obtained BPharm (Hons) and MPharm degrees in Pharmacy from Dhaka University, and a PhD in Phytochemistry from Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Previously, he held academic posts at Wolverhampton University, Ulster University, The Robert Gordon University and Exeter University.

His research focuses on anticancer, anti-inflammatory, chemopreventive phytochemicals, and computational phytochemistry. He is the author of >725 publications and one of the most cited authors (h-index 72 & i-10 index 375 as of 07.02.2024, Google Scholar) in phytochemistry.
Prof Sarker is the Editor-in-Chief of Phytochemical Analysis and Journal of Natural Products Discovery, and the former President of the Phytochemical Society of Europe. He is on the Editorial Board of >40 international journals including Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Molecules and Phytochemistry Letters, and has served as a reviewer for >100 different journals. He co-authored the popular textbook, Chemistry for Pharmacy Students (Wiley & Sons) in 2007, which was subsequently translated into Indonesian, Japanese, Greek and Portuguese languages; the 2nd edition was published in 2019. He is the co-author of the book, Steroid Dimers (Wiley & Sons), published in 2012, and co-edited both the 2nd and 3rd editions of Natural Products Isolation (Humana Press-Springer-Verlag), published in 2005 and 2012. Computational Phytochemistry (Elsevier; Sarker SD and Nahar L), Medicinal Natural Products – A Disease-focused Approach (Elsevier; Sarker SD and Nahar L) and Handbook of Dietary Phytochemicals (Xiao J, Sarker SD and Asakawa Y; publisher: Springer-Nature) were published in 2018, 2020 and 2021, respectively. Recent Advances in Nanotechnology-based Drug Delivery Systems (Elsevier; Talukdar AD, Sarker SD and Patra JK) and Biomolecules from Natural Sources: Advances and Applications (Wiley and Sons; Gupta V, Sarker SD, Sharma M, Pirovani ME, Usmani Z and Jayabaskaran C) are his two recent books (2022). The second edition of Computational Phytochemistry is due to be published in March 2024.

Prof Sarker delivered numerous invited talks at various international conferences on bioactive natural products, phytochemistry, phytochemical analysis, evidence-based phytotherapy, and scientific writing, and at several institutions from world over, including Manchester University, De Montfort University, The Robert Gordon University, Keele University, Lancaster University, Nottingham University, Worcester University, Gregory T Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hong Kong University, Macau University, Jinan University, Palaćky University, Masaryk University, University of Vienna, Tripoli University, Yunnan Agricultural University, University of Botswana, Dammam University, University of Putra Malaysia, University Technologi Malaysia and Wuhan Botanical Garden – Chinese Academy of Sciences are to name a few. His scientific profile has been published in every edition of the Marquis Who’s Who in the World since 2010.