Qazi Naveed Ahmed obtained his PhD. from Kashmir University under the combined supervision of Dr. H. M. Sampath Kumar and Prof. M. A. Qureshi at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine. His doctoral research was focused on the “Synthesis of Some Biologically Active Compounds and Development of New Synthetic Methodologies.? He completed his post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Paris Sud-XI, Parisa, France, under the CNRS program in the Glycochemistry Division under Prof. David Bonnaffe. In 2012, he obtained a scientific position in the CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine Jammu as a Principal Scientist. His current research interests are medicinal chemistry for the development of novel anti-bacterial/anticancer agents, and development of new synthetic methodologies.Affiliations and Expertise