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Projects received under Expression of Interest Scheme from different scientific/academic organizations. He was working as Nodal Officer in a collaborative project between Directorate General of Health Services and CCRUM namely Integration of Unani Medicine in National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular diseases & Stroke (NPCDCS), at selected District Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh; and got appreciation letter from DGHS for successfully implementation of the programme, where about 5.5 lakh individuals were benefitted. Also worked as Nodal Officer, Swasthya Rakshan / Parikshan Programme of the Council, which was implemented through 12 Institutes/centres of the Council. He was the Chairman/Member for different Selection Committees for the Post of Research Associates/Senior Research Fellow at different institutes. He is the member of different committees and member of editorial board of different journals.

Dr. Maryam Sarwat is an Indian Citizen, working as an Associate Professor in the Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Noida. She has obtained her Ph. D. in 2007 and completed postdoctoral research at ICGEB, New Delhi. She has received several research grants from various R & D agencies such as DST, DBT, CCRUM and SERB in India. She has been sponsored by various funding agencies in India (CSIR, INSA, DBT, SERB) and abroad (Society of Experimental Biology, UK and United Scientific Group, USA) for presenting her research findings in scientific conferences at Germany, Czech Republic and France etc. Dr. Sarwat has mentored six PhD and fifteen Masters' students. She has more than 55 international publications in reputed journals and three patents to her credit. She is the recipient of the prestigious "Scientist of the Year Award" in 2015. Dr. Sarwat has published two volumes of "Stress Signaling in Plants, Genomics and Proteomics Perspective" with Springer Nature in 2013 and 2017. She has also authored three books with Elsevier entitled 'Senescence Signaling and Control in Plants' in 2018, 'Saffron: The Age-Old Panacea in a New Light' in the early 2020 and 'Herbal Medicines: A Boon for Healthy Human Life' in 2022. She has also published the title 'Environment and Human Health' through King Abdul Aziz University Press in 2020. Her two volumes on 'Ethnic Knowledge on Biodiversity, Nutrition and Health Security' are due for publication by Taylor and Francis in 2023. She is on the board of reviewers of various international journals from Springer Nature, Frontiers, Elsevier, Wiley, PLOS and Taylor and Francis etc.

Dr. Fouzia Bashir has done her Bachelor in Unani Medicine (BUMS) and MD in Tahaffuzi wa Samaji Tib (Preventive and Social Medicine) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. She has worked as senior research fellow in a Project of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at New Delhi. Now, she is working as Research Associate, Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine, Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India since 2018 and posted at Headquarters, New Delhi. She has published more than 45 research papers, review articles and book chapters, in various peer reviewed scientific journals. She has also presented papers in many conferences and attended more than 30 Workshop / training programs.