Dr. Rahman Shah Zaib Saleem joined LUMS in 2012 as an assistant professor and was tenured and promoted to associate professor in 2020.  He is an enthusiastic experienced organic chemist with a proven track record in medicinal chemistry and materials. He enjoys teaching and training organic chemistry, spectroscopy, medicinal chemistry and drug discovery courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He builds effective collaborations within and outside of the institution.

In medicinal chemistry, he has expertise in the discovery of lead molecules for various cellular targets. His specialties include hit and lead generation, lead optimization, medicinal chemistry, organic synthesis and methodology, structure-based drug design, data analysis, natural product isolation and structure elucidation.

On the materials front, he is also working on the novel metal-free organic dyes for solar cell and organic scaffolds for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and modification of the drug molecules to prepare nanoparticles for subsequent evaluation. As an organic chemist, he has also done the isolation, characterization & total synthesis of natural products.

Research group page: OrgChem.lums.edu.pk