About Us
Jamia Hamdard (JH) was declared as a deemed-to-be University by the Govt. of India in 1989 on the recommendation of University Grants Commission (UGC) under the UGC Act 1956 in recognition of the services provided by erstwhile educational institutes established by the Hamdard National Foundation (HNF). These institutes, built over a period of time, included the Hamdard College of Pharmacy, Hamdard Tibbi College, Rufaida College of Nursing, the Institute of History of Medicine & Medical Research, and Indian Institute of Islamic Studies.
Jamia Hamdard was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of India, Shri Rajiv Gandhi on August 1, 1989, who in his inspiring inaugural address applauded the efforts of Hakeem Abdul Hameed sb, the Founder, for setting up a number of institutions of learning which were finally emerged in the form of a “Deemed to be University” namely Jamia Hamdard. In the words of Shri Rajiv Gandhi, “This will enable minority to go forward and help India to march forward”.
Spread over a sprawling green campus of about 100 acres, located on a prime piece of land in South Delhi, JH has nine Schools including a medical college, two hospitals – a 750 bedded modern medicine hospital and another 150 bedded Unani medicine hospital – on its campus. It has a huge library building, archive centre, separate hostels for girls and boys, gymnasium, a large playground, residential quarters for the staff, and also an off-campus in Kannur, Kerala.
The University has been maintaining a steady progress in all facets in its existence of almost 30 years and is both nationally and internationally recognized for the quality of teaching and research. The overall progress in this period has been excellent in terms of infrastructure and maintaining the standards which is evident from the placement records, high quality of research, publications and patents. Jamia Hamdard is among top 25 universities of India and ranked 2nd in the field of Pharmaceutical sciences and ranked 11th in Medical Education by the Govt. of India (NIRF-2018 ranking). JH is perhaps the only privately funded University to get funding under the DST's PURSE (Promotion for University Research in Science and Engineering) Grant. Jamia Hamdard was placed at 2nd rank in i10 values and 5th in i100 values as per SCOPUS dataset of all the Institutes that awarded the DST PURSE grant. The total number of publications of Jamia Hamdard is 4386 as of today. The h-index of Jamia Hamdard is 95 and i100 is 87. Almost 36% of all our publications have been cited at least 10 times according SCOPUS database. JH has a close relationship with DRDO and joint research between Jamia Hamdard and INMAS-DRDO has led to development of pharmaceutical products which are being used by defense forces.
The University is committed to excellence in tertiary education.
Area of Excellence
Amongst Top 25 University
Ranked 2nd in Pharmacy and 11th in Medical Education amongst the institutions in India, as per NIRF-2018 ranking
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Medical Sciences
Information Technology
Paramedical Sciences
Research Capability and Focus Area
Major teaching and thrust areas of research
Nursing
Community health and clinical nursing
Science
Biotechnology, biochemistry, medical elementology and toxicology, botany, industrial chemistry
Pharmacy
New drug development, pharmaceutical biotechnology, herbal medicine and molecular pharmacology
Medicine (Unani)
Investigative Unani medicine and practice of Unani medicine
Islamic Studies and Social Sciences
Contribution of Islam to Indian society, comparative religion studies, federal governance, human rights studies
Allied Health Science
Paramedical sciences, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, Clinical Research
Management and Information Technology
Business, health, hospital, pharmaceutical and informatics management, computer science, information technology
Faculty of Engineering and Interdisciplinary Science*
Food technology and nutrigenomics, bioinstrumentation, bioinformatics, nanotechnology
Notable Research / Publication
Ranked 2nd in Pharmacy and 11th in Medical Education amongst the institutions in India, as per NIRF-2018 ranking
1. Kashif Shakil, Sheikh Raisuddin, Sadath Ali, Syed Sarim Imam, Md Akhlaquer Rahman, Gaurav Kumar Jain, Farhan Jalees Ahmad “Development and in vitro/in vivo evaluation of artemether and lumefantrine co-loaded nanoliposomes for parenteral delivery” Journal of liposome research, 1-21, 2017
2. A Barkat, S Beg, J Naim, FH Pottoo, SP Singh, FJ Ahmad, “Current Progress in Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Silver Nanoparticles: Precepts and Prospects” Recent patents on anti-infective drug discovery, 2017
3. Muhammad Usama Ashhar, Mohd Zubair Ahmad, Vikas Jain, Nidhi B Agarwal, Farhan J Ahmad, Gaurav K Jain, “Intranasal pitavastatin attenuates seizures in different experimental models of epilepsy in mice” Epilepsy & Behavior, 75, 56-59, 2017
4. Niyaz Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmad, Atta Abbas Naqvi, Md Aftab Alam, Rehan Abdur Rub, Farhan Jalees Ahmad, “Enhancement of Quercetin Oral Bioavailability by Self-Nanoemulsifying Drug Delivery System and their Quantification Through Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry in Cerebral Ischemia, Drug research, 67, 10, 564-575, 2017
5. Abdul Muheem, Faiyaz Shakeel, Musarrat Husain Warsi, Gaurav Kumar Jain, Farhan Jalees Ahmad, “A Combinatorial Statistical Design Approach to Optimize the Nanostructured Cubosomal Carrier System for Oral Delivery of Ubidecarenone for Management of Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity: In Vitro–In Vivo Investigations, Journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 106, 10, 3050-3065, 2017
6. S Pandey, A Mahtab, N Rai, P Rawat, FJ Ahmad, S Talegaonkar “Emerging role of CD44 receptor as a potential target in disease diagnosis: A patent review” Recent patents on inflammation & allergy drug discovery, Recent Pat Inflamm Allergy Drug Discov. 2017 Sep 6. doi: 10.2174/1872213X11666170907111858. [Epub ahead of print], 2017
7. Muhammad Usama Ashhar, Mohd Zubair Ahmad, Vikas Jain, Nidhi B Agarwal, Farhan J Ahmad, Gaurav K Jain “Intranasal pitavastatin attenuates seizures in different experimental models of epilepsy in mice” Epilepsy & Behavior, 75, 56-59, 2017
8. Niyaz Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmad, Atta Abbas Naqvi, Md Aftab Alam, Rehan Abdur Rub, Farhan Jalees Ahmad “Enhancement of Quercetin Oral Bioavailability by Self-Nanoemulsifying Drug Delivery System and their Quantification Through Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry in Cerebral Ischemia, Drug Research, 67(10) 564-575, 2017
9. Abdul Muheem, FaiyazShakeel, Musarrat HusainWarsi, Gaurav Kumar Jain, Farhan Jalees Ahmad, “A Combinatorial Statistical Design Approach to Optimize the Nanostructured Cubosomal Carrier System for Oral Delivery of Ubidecarenone for Management of Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity: In Vitro–In Vivo Investigations” Pharmaceutics, Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Technology, 2017
10. Lydia Thomas, Foziyah Zakir, Mohd Aamir Mirza, Md Khalid Anwer, Farhan Jalees Ahmad, Zeenat Iqbal “Development of Curcumin loaded chitosan polymer based nanoemulsion gel: In vitro, ex vivo evaluation and in vivo wound healing studies” International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Volume 101, 569-579, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2017.03.066 F. 3.671
11. Niyaz Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmad, Atta Abbas Naqvi, Mohammad Ashafaq, Md Aftab Alam, Farhan Jalees Ahmad, Mastour Safer Al-Ghamdi “The effect of safranal loaded mucoadhesive nanoemulsion on oxidative stress markers in cerebral ischemia” Artificial cells, nanomedicine, and biotechnology, Volume 45, Issue 4, Pages 775-787 (2017) I.F. 5.605
12. A Muheem, F Shakeel, MH Warsi, GK Jain, FJ Ahmad - Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, “A Combinatorial Statistical Design Approach to Optimize the Nanostructured Cubosomal Carrier System for Oral Delivery of Ubidecarenone for Management of Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity: In Vitro–In Vivo Investigations” Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2017, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xphs.2017.05.026 I.F. 2.59
13. Md Abul Barkat, Iqbal Ahmad, Raisuddin Ali, Satya Prakash Singh, Faheem Hyder Pottoo, Sarwar Beg, Farhan Jalees Ahmad ”Nanosuspension-Based Aloe vera Gel of Silver Sulfadiazine with Improved Wound Healing Activity”AAPS PharmSciTech, 1-12, First Online: 05 June 2017 I.F. 2.451
14. Niyaz Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmad, Atta Abbas Naqvi, Md Aftab Alam, Mohammad Ashafaq, Rehan Abdur Rub, Farhan Jalees Ahmad “Intranasal delivery of quercetin-loaded mucoadhesive nanoemulsion for treatment of cerebral ischaemia” Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, Pages1-13, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21691401.2017.1337024 I.F. 5.605
15. MA Barkat, H Abul, J Ahmad, MA Khan, S Beg, FJ Ahmad Insights into the targeting potential of thymoquinone for therapeutic intervention against triple-negative breast cancer” Drug Targets, doi: 10.2174/1389450118666170612095959, 2017 I.F. 3.236
16. Shaheen Sultana, Sushma Talegaonkar, Dhruv Kumar Nishad, Gaurav Mittal, Farhan J Ahmad, Aseem Bhatnagar ”Alpha ketoglutarate nanoparticles: A Potentially Effective treatment for cyanide poisoning”, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2017.06.017 I.F. 4.159
17. Sharmistha Mohapatra, Anees Ahmad Siddiqui, Mohammed Anwar, Neha Bhardwaj, Sohail Akhter, Farhan Jalees Ahmad “Synthesis and characterization of novel carboxymethyl Assam Bora rice starch for the controlled release of cationic anticancer drug based on electrostatic interactions, AAPS PharmSciTech, Pages 1-14 2017, I.F. 2.451
18. Iqbal Ahmad, S Akhter, Mohammed Anwar, Sobiya Zafar, Rakesh Kumar Sharma, Asgar Ali, Farhan Jalees Ahmad”Supercritical anti-solvent technique assisted synthesis of thymoquinone liposomes for radioprotection:Formulation optimization, in-vitro and in-vivo studies” International journal of pharmaceutics,Volume 523(1)398-409, 2017 I.F. 3.649
19. Sarwar Beg, Mahfoozur Rahman, Atul Jain, Sumant Saini, Patrick Midoux, Chantal Pichon, Farhan Jalees Ahmad, Sohail Akhter, “Nanoporous metal organic frameworks as hybrid polymer–metal composites for drug delivery and biomedical applications” Drug discovery today, Volume 22(4) 625-637, 2017 I.F. 6.639
20. Niyaz Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmad, Atta Abbas Naqvi, Md Aftab Alam, Mohammad Ashafaq, Zeenat Iqbal, Farhan Jalees Ahmad, “Isolation, characterization, and quantification of curcuminoids and their comparative effects in cerebral ischemia”Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies 1-14, 2017
I.F. 0.71
21. Jyoti Bhandari, Harshita Mishra, Pawan Kumar Mishra, Rupert Wimmer, Farhan J Ahmad, Sushama Talegaonkar “Cellulose nanofiber aerogel as a promising biomaterial for customized oral drug delivery” International Journal of Nanomedicine”Volume12, 2021, 2017 I.F. 4.30
22. Abdul Rauf, Aseem Bhatnagar, SS Sisodia, Roop K Khar, Farhan J Ahmad “Lungs deposition and pharmacokinetic study of submicron budesonide particles in wistar rats intended for immediate effect in asthma” EXCLI JOURNAL, Volume16, 236-244, 2017 I.F. 1.462
23. Usama Ahmad, Juber Akhtar, Satya Prakash Singh, Badruddeen, Farhan Jalees Ahmad, Sahabjada Siddiqui &Wahajuddin, “Silymarin nanoemulsion against human hepatocellular carcinoma: development and optimization” Journal Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology :An International Journal, Pages 1-11, Published online: 14 May 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21691401.2017.1324465
24. M Anwar, S Akhter, N Mallick, S Mohapatra, S Zafar, MMA Rizvi, A Ali, Farhan J Ahmad “Enhanced anti-tumor efficacy of paclitaxel with PEGylated lipidic nanocapsules in presence of curcumin and poloxamer: In vitro and in vivo studies” Pharmacological Research 113, 146-165, 2016 I.F. 4.48
25. S Akhter, M Anwar, MA Siddiqui, I Ahmad, J Ahmad, MZ Ahmad and Farhan J ahmad, “Improving the topical ocular pharmacokinetics of an immunosuppressant agent with mucoadhesive nanoemulsions: Formulation development, in-vitro and in-vivo studies” Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2016 I.F. 3.887
26. MZ Ahmad, BA Abdel-Wahab, A Alam, S Zafar, J Ahmad, FJ Ahmad, “Toxicity of Inorganic Nanoparticles Used in Targeted Drug Delivery and Other Biomedical Application: An Updated Account on Concern of Biomedical Nanotoxicology” Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 16 (8), 7873-7897, 2016 I.F. 1.483
27. S Pandey, N Rai, P Rawat, FJ Ahmad, S Talegaonkar “Nanofacilitated synergistic treatment for rheumatoid arthritis: A ‘three-pronged’approach” Medical hypotheses 92, 44-47, 2016
28. N Ahmad, R Ahmad, MA Alam, M Samim, Z Iqbal, FJ Ahmad, “Quantification and evaluation of thymoquinone loaded mucoadhesive nanoemulsion for treatment of cerebral ischemia” International journal of biological macromolecules 88, 320-332. 2016 I.F. 3.671
29. AM Khan, FJ Ahmad, AK Panda, S Talegaonkar “Investigation of imatinib loaded surface decorated biodegradable nanocarriers against glioblastoma cell lines: Intracellular uptake and cytotoxicity studies” International journal of pharmaceutics 507 (1), 61-71, 2016 I.F. 3.871
30. P Rawat, I Ahmad, SC Thomas, S Pandey, D Vohora, S Gupta, FJ Ahmad, “Revisiting bone targeting potential of novel hydroxyapatite based surface modified PLGA nanoparticles of risedronate: Pharmacokinetic and biochemical assessment” International Journal of Pharmaceutics 506 (1), 253-261, 2016 I.F. 3.649
31. N Ahmad, R Ahmad, AA Naqvi, MA Alam, M Ashafaq, M Samim, Z Iqbal, “Rutin-encapsulated chitosan nanoparticles targeted to the brain in the treatment of Cerebral Ischemia: Rutin-encapsulated chitosan nanoparticles for treatment of Cerebral Ischemia” International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2016 I.F. 3.671
32. M A Barkat, J Ahmad, R Ali, M A Rahman, S Kaleem, S P Singh, “Formulation Design of Micronized Silver Sulfadiazine Containing Aloe vera Gel for Wound Healing” Current Bioactive Compounds 12 (2), 63-68, 2016 I.F. 0.36
33. N Ahmad, R Ahmad, FJ Ahmad “Stressed Kinetics and Pharmacokinetics of Curcumin Nanoemulsion Using Validated Ultrahigh-Performance Liquid Chromatography–Synapt Mass Spectrometry (UPLC–MS/MS–ESI-Q-TOF) Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions A: Science 40 (2 ) 2016 I.F. 0.217
34. N Mallick, M Anwar, M Asfer, SH Mehdi, MMA Rizvi, AK Panda, “Chondroitin sulfate-capped super-paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles as potential carriers of doxorubicin hydrochloride” Carbohydrate Polymers, 2016 I.F. 4.811
35. A Hussain, A Samad, M Ramzan, MN Ahsan, Z Ur Rehman, FJ Ahmad, “Elastic liposome-based gel for topical delivery of 5-fluorouracil: in vitro and in vivo investigation” Drug delivery 23 (4), 1115-1129, 2016 I.F. 6.402
36. PS Thakur, AM Khan, S Talegaonkar, FJ Ahmad, Z Iqbal, “Hurdles in selection process of nanodelivery systems for multidrug-resistant cancer” Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology, 1-34, 2016 I.F. 3.5
37. MZ Ahmad, SA Alkahtani, S Akhter, FJ Ahmad, J Ahmad, MS Akhtar, Progress in nanotechnology-based drug carrier in designing of curcumin nanomedicines for cancer therapy: current state-of-the-art, Journal of drug targeting 24 (4), 273-293, 2016
38. M Tariq, A T Singh, Z Iqbal, F J Ahmad, S Talegaonkar, “Investigative Approaches for Oral Delivery of Anticancer Drugs: A Patent Review” Recent patents on drug delivery & formulation 10 (1), 24-43, 2016 I.F. 2.84
39. M A Alam, F J Ahmad, Z I Khan, R K Khar, Pre-Clinical Safety Evaluation of Antimicrobial Bioadhesive Vaginal Formulations, Anti-Infective Agents 14 (1), 23-27, 2016
40. FJ Ahmad, Z Naaz, “Boswellic Acid Loaded Nanoemulsion Gel For Arthritis: Formulation, Characterization And In Vivo Evaluation, Planta Medica 82 (05), OA22, 2016 I.F. 2.342
41. A Singh, I Ahmad, S Ahmad, Z Iqbal, FJ Ahmad “A novel monolithic controlled delivery system of resveratrol for enhanced hepatoprotection: nanoformulation development, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics” Drug development and industrial pharmacy, 1-13, 2016 I.F. 2.295
42. A Hussain, VK Singh, OP Singh, K Shafaat, S Kumar, FJ Ahmad, “Formulation and optimization of nanoemulsion using antifungal lipid and surfactant for accentuated topical delivery of Amphotericin B, Drug Delivery, 1-10, 2016 I.F. 6.402
43. A Mahtab, M Anwar, N Mallick, Z Naz, GK Jain, FJ Ahmad, “Transungual Delivery of Ketoconazole Nanoemulgel for the Effective Management of Onychomycosis” AAPS PharmSciTech, 1-14, 2016 I.F. 2.451
44. I Ahmad, M Anwar, S Akhter, P Thakur, R Chawla, RK Sharma and Faran J Ahmad, A Ali, “Supercritical Fluid Technology-Based Trans-Resveratrol SLN for Long Circulation and Improved Radioprotection”, Journal of Pharmaceutical Innovation, 1-15, 2016
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