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Abida Raza
Country of origin: Pakistan Currently in: Pakistan, Islamabad General field of specialization: Biological Systems and Organisms-
Degrees
2003 Doctorate Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences -
Current Research Activities
Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
Publications resulting from Research:
1. Sarwar, Usama, Muhammad Naeem, Farwa Nurjis, Shafqat Karim & Abida Raza. Ultrasound-mediated in vivo biodistribution of coumarin-labeled sorafenib-loaded liposome-based nanotheranostic system. Nanomedicine (2023). 17 (25), 1909-1927.
2. Sidra Saeed, Usama Sarwar, Masoom Yasinzai, Abida Raza. Glycol chitosan amphiphile nanotheranostic system for ultrasound mediated localized release and biodistribution of doxorubicin. J Nanopart Res (2023) 25:194 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-023-05835-x
3. Gulzar, N., Andleeb, S., Raza, A., Ali, S., Liaqat, I., Raja, S.A., Ali, N.M., Khan, R. and Awan, U.A., 2024. Acute Toxicity, Anti-diabetic, and Anti-cancerous Potential of Trillium Govanianum-conjugated Silver Nanoparticles in Balb/c Mice. Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. 10.2174/1389201024666230818124025
4. Zia, Nashmia, Zafar Iqbal, Abida Raza, Aadarash Zia, Rabia Shafique, Saiqa Andleeb, and Gilbert C. Walker. "Glycol-Chitosan-Based Technetium-99m-Loaded Multifunctional Nanomicelles: Synthesis, Evaluation, and In Vivo Biodistribution." Nanomaterials 12, no. 13 (2022): 2198.
5. Andleeb, S., Iqbal, Z., Gulzar, N., Raza, A. and Ahmad, A., 2024. Synthesis, Characterization, Acute Dermal Toxicity, Anti-inflammatory, and Wound Healing Potential of Biogenic Silver Nanoparticles in Balb C Mice. Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. 10.2174/1389201024666230727122201
6. Arif, S.T., Khan, M.A., Zaman, S.U., Sarwar, H.S., Raza, A., Sarfraz, M., Bin Jardan, Y.A., Amin, M.U. and Sohail, M.F., 2023. Enhanced Antidepressant Activity of Nanostructured Lipid Carriers Containing Levosulpiride in Behavioral Despair Tests in Mice. Pharmaceuticals, 16(9), p.1220. https://doi.org/10.3390/ph16091220
7. Shabbir, Rabia, Abida Raza, Afrose Liaquat, Saeed Ullah Shah, Sidra Saeed, Usama Sarwar, Muhammad Hamza, Fayyaz Chudhary, Zajif Hussain, and N. M. Butt. "Nanoparticles as a novel tool to inhibit inflammatory cytokines in human lymphocytes and macrophages of coronary artery disease." Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 111, no. 5 (2022): 1509-1521.
8. Nazer, Sadia, Saiqa Andleeb, Shaukat Ali, Nazia Gulzar, Abida Raza, Habib Khan, Kalsoom Akhtar, and Muhammad N. Ahmed. "Cytotoxicity, Anti-diabetic, and Hepato-protective Potential of Ajuga bracteosa-conjugated Silver Nanoparticles in Balb/c Mice." Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology 23, no. 3 (2022): 318-336.
9. Arshad, Maryam, Ishrat Mahjabeen, Abida Raza, Sumbal Javaid, Maria Fazal ul Haq, Masroor Alam, and Ahmat Khurshid. "In-vitro co-delivery of decarbazine and photosense using poly lactic-co-glycolic acid nanocarrier for combinational therapy." Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy 37 (2022): 102737.
10. Sakhi, Mirina, Abad Khan, Zafar Iqbal, Ismail Khan, Abida Raza, Asmat Ullah, Fazli Nasir, and Saeed Ahmad Khan. (2022). Design and Characterization of Paclitaxel-Loaded Polymeric Nanoparticles Decorated With Trastuzumab for the Effective Treatment of Breast Cancer." Frontiers in Pharmacology 13
11. Afreenish Hassan, Aamer Ikram, Abida Raza, Sidra Saeed, Rehan Zafar Paracha, Zumara Younas, Muhammad Tahir Khadim. Therapeutic Potential of Novel Mastoparan-Chitosan Nanoconstructs Against Clinical MDR Acinetobacter baumannii: In silico, in vitro and in vivo Studies. International Journal of Nanomedicine 2021:16 3755–3773
12. Razzaq, Sobia, Aisha Rauf, Abida Raza, Sohail Akhtar, Tanveer A. Tabish, Mansur Abdullah Sandhu, Muhammad Zaman et al. "A multifunctional polymeric micelle for targeted delivery of paclitaxel by the inhibition of the P-Glycoprotein transporters." Nanomaterials 11 (2021): 2858.
13. Khan, M.A., Ansari, M.M., Arif, S.T., Raza, A., Choi, H.I., Lim, C.W., Noh, H.Y., Noh, J.S., Akram, S., Nawaz, H.A. and Ammad, M., 2021. Eplerenone nanocrystals engineered by controlled crystallization for enhanced oral bioavailability. Drug Delivery, 28(1), pp.2510-2524.
14. Razzaq, A Rauf, A Raza, TA Tabish, M Rauf‐ul‐Hassan, G Shahnaz. 2021. Papain decorated multi‐functional polymeric micelles for the targeted intracellular delivery of paclitaxel. Polym Adv Technol. 2021;32:3180–3193
15. Uzma Azeem Awan, Abida Raza, Shaukat Ali, Rida Fatima Saeed, Nosheen Akhtar. 2021. Doxorubicin-loaded gold nanorods: a multifunctional chemo-photothermal nanoplatform for cancer management. Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. 12, 295-303. 10.3762/bjnano.12.24
16. Mehreen R, Raza A., Jamshaid A K., Aslam Zia. 2021. Laser responsive cisplatin-gold nano- assembly synergizes the effect of cisplatin with compliance. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 110 (4), 1749-1760 1-12 doi.org/10.1016/j.xphs.2021.01.012
17. Rahman, M., Khan, J.A., Kanwal, U., Awan, U.A. and Raza, A., 2021. Methotrexate-loaded PEGylated gold nanoparticles as hemocompatible and pH-responsive anticancer drug nanoconjugate. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 23(8), p.195.
18. Muhammad Ovais, Sudip Mukherjee, Arindam Pramanik, Devlina Das, Anubhab Mukherjee, Abida Raza, Chunying Chen. 2020. Designing Stimuli Responsive Upconversion Nanoparticles that Exploit the Tumor Microenvironment. Advanced Materials. 32 (22), 2000055 10.1002/adma.202000055.
19. Imran Tariq, Muhammad Yasir Ali, Muhammad Farhan Sohail, Muhammad Umair Amin, Sajid Ali, Nadeem Irfan Bukhari, Abida Raza, Shashank Reddy Pinnapireddy, Jens Schäfer, U Bakowsky. Lipodendriplexes mediated enhanced gene delivery: a cellular to pre-clinical investigation. Sci Rep 2020 12 8;10(1):21446.
20. Maria S, Sarwar H S, Sohail M F, Imran M, Salman, Raza A, Ahmad N M, Ali I, G Shahnaz. 2020. Synthesis and characterization of pre-activated thiolated chitosan nanoparticles for oral delivery of octreotide. Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 58:101807
21. Gul, S., Khan, A., Raza, A., Khan, I., Ehtisham, S. 2020. Association of XPD Lys751Glngene polymorphism with susceptibility and clinical outcome of colorectal cancer in Pakistanipopulation: a case-control pharmacogenetic study. Genes and Genomics, 42 (12): 1389-1398
22. Sami, A., Naqvi, SMS., Qayyum, M., Raza A., Sabitaliyevich, UY., Ahmad, MS. 2020. Calcium based siRNA coating: a novel approach for knockdown of HER2 gene in HCF-7 cells using gold nanoparticles. Cellular and Molecular Biology, 66(6): 105-111 DOI: 10.14715/cmb/2020.66.6.19
23. H C Aziz. M A Khan, SKhan, M Shahid, A Raza, Z Hussain, M Sohail, M U Minhas, S W A Shah, N Khan, J Khan, Z Khan. Clarithromycin Loaded Lipid Polymer Hybrid Nanoparticles: Fabrication, In Vitro and in vivo Evaluation. Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 33:3, 1311-1317
24. Gulzar, N., Andleeb, S., Ali, S., Nazer, S., Iqbal, T., Khan, M. A. R., & Raza, A. Screening of Antibacterial, Anti-Biofilm, Cell Proliferation Inhibition, and Synergistic Effects of Biogenic Synthesized Silver Nanostructures Using Trillium govanianum with Antibiotics. Journal Of The Chemical Society Of Pakistan, 42(1), 120-133.
25. Kiani, M. H., Imran, M., Raza, A., & Shahnaz, G. (2020). Multi-functionalized nanocarriers targeting bacterial reservoirs to overcome challenges of multi drug-resistance. DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 28(1), 319-332.
26. Ummarah K, Bukhari I, Fatima N., Rehman M., H Khalid, Abass N, Arshad M., Raza A. Doxorubicin loaded Quaternary Ammonium Palmitoyl Glycol Chitosan polymeric nanoformulation: Uptake by cells and organs. Int Journal of Nanomedicine 14:1-15.
27. Arshad, M., Jalil, I., Raza, A., Malik, S., & Dasti, J. I. (2019). Novel polymorphism in the promoter region of HLA-DQB1 is a predictor of anti-HCV therapy response. Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology, 12(6).
28. Nazer, S., Andleeb, S., Ali, S., Gulzar, N., Iqbal, T., Khan, M. A., & Raza, A. Synergistic Antibacterial Efficacy of Biogenic Synthesized Silver Nanoparticles using Ajuga bractosa with Standard Antibiotics: A Study Against Bacterial Pathogens. Curr Pharm. Biotechnol 21(3), 206-218.
29. Ummarah K., Bukhari I, Ovais M, Khalid Hussain, Abass N, Hussain K1, Raza A. Advances in Nano-delivery Systems for Doxorubicin: An updated insight. J of drug targeting 26 (4), 296-310
30. Ovais M., Ayaz M., Zia N., Ahmad I., Talha Khalil A., Raza A., Sadiq A., Ullah F., Khan Shinwari. (2018). Phyto-Therapeutic and Nanomedicinal Approaches to Cure Alzheimer’s Disease: Present Status and Future Opportunities. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience (2018) 10, 284. doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2018.00284
31. Ali M, Khan T., Fatima K., Ali Q., Ovais M., Khalil A, Ullah I, Raza A, Shinwari Z, Idrees M. Selected hepatoprotective herbal medicines: Evidence from ethnomedicinal applications, animal models, and possible mechanism of actions. Phytotherapy Research (2018) 32(2) 199-215.
32. K Ejaz, H Sadia, G Zia, S Nazir, A Raza, S Ali, T Iqbal, S Andleeb. Biofilm reduction, cell proliferation, anthelmintic and cytotoxicity effect of green synthesized silver nanoparticle using Artemisia vulgaris extract. IET Nanobiotechnology 12 (1), 71-77
33. Zia G., Sadia H., Nazir S., Ejaz K., Ali S., Ihsan-ul-Haq., Iqbal T., Khan M., Raza A., Andleeb. S. In vitro Studies on Cytotoxic, DNA Protecting, Antibiofilm and Antibacterial Effects of Biogenic Silver Nanoparticles Prepared with Bergenia ciliata Rhizome Extract. Curr Pharma Biotech 19(1).
34. MA Khan, S Ali, SS Venkatraman, MF Sohail, M Ovais, A Raza. 2018. Fabrication of Poly (Butadiene-Block-Ethylene Oxide) Based Amphiphilic Polymersomes: An Approach for Improved Oral Pharmacokinetics of Sorafenib. International Journal of Pharmaceutics 542(1-2) 196-204.
35. MA Khan, Abida Raza, M Ovais, M Farhan Sohail, Shaukat Ali. Current state and prospects of Nano-delivery systems for Sorafenib. Int J. of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials. 67(18), 1105-1115, DOI 10.1080/00914037.2018.1429434
36. Ovais M., Ayaz M., A T Khalil, S A Shah, M S Jan, A Raza, M Shahid, Z K Shinwari. HPLC-DAD finger printing, antioxidant, cholinesterase, and α-glucosidase inhibitory potentials of a novel plant Olax nana. BMC complementary and Alternative Medicine 18 (1), 1
37. Ovais M., Khalil A., Raza A., Islam N., Ayaz M., Saravanan M., Ali M., Ahmad I., Shahid M., Shinwari Z. Multifunctional theranostics applications of biocompatible green-synthesized colloidal nanoparticles Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 102(10) 4393-4408
38. Ovais M., Ahmad I., Khalil A., Mukherjee S., Javed R., Ayaz M., Raza A., Shinwari Z. Wound healing applications of biogenic colloidal silver and gold nanoparticles: Recent trends and future prospects. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (2018) 102(10) 4305-4318
39. A Zia, M Ali, H Aziz, M Zia, ZK Shinwari, A Raza. 2018, A case of a patient infected with a hepatitis C virus genotype 3a multidrug resistant variant in Pakistan. Infectious diseases of poverty 7 (1), 11.
40. A Zia, SW Abbasi, S Ahmad, M Zia, A Raza. 2018. Phylogenetic analysis, structure modeling and docking study of HCV NS3 protease for the identification of potent inhibitors. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 59, 51-62
41. Obaid, A., Naz, A., Ikram, A. , Awan, F. Raza, A., M., , Ahmad J., Ali, A. Model of the adaptive immune response system against HCV infection reveals potential immunomodulatory agents for combination therapy, Scientific Reports (2018) 8(1) 8874
42. Farhad U, Zafar Iqbal, A. Raza, I. Khan, F. U Khan, M. Hassan. Simultaneous determination of methotrexate and metoclopramide in physiological fluids using RP-HPLC with ultra-violet detection; application in evaluation of polymeric nanoparticles. Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies. 40 (20), 1020-1030
43. M Farhan Sohail, H. S. Sarwar, I. Javed, A. Nadhman, S. Z. Hussain, H. Saeed, A. Raza, N. I. Bukhari, I. Hussain and Gul Shahnaz. Cell to rodent: toxicological profiling of folate grafted thiomer enveloped nanoliposomes. Toxicology Research 6 (6), 814-821
44. U Awan, MR ShaukatAli, N Zia, SS Naz, M Ovais, A Raza. Stable and reproducible synthesis of gold nanorods for biomedical applications: A comprehensive study. IET Nanobiotechnology. 12(2):182–190. DOI: 10.1049/iet-nbt.2016.0220
45. Ovais, M, A. Raza, S. Naz, N. Islam, A.T. Khalil, S. Ali, M. Adeeb Khan and Z. K. Shinwari, 'Current state and prospects of the phytosynthesized colloidal gold nanoparticles and their applications in cancer theranostics. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2017, 5;101(9): 3551-3565.
46. Sumera Gull, Amania Anwar, S., M. Ovais, A. Khan, A. Raza. 'Docetaxel Loaded Solid Lipid Nanoparticles: A Novel Drug Delivery System'. IET Nanobiotechnology, 2017, 11(6):621-629. doi: 10.1049/iet-nbt.2017.0001
47. Shahnaz, G., Edagwa, B.J., McMillan, J., Akhtar, S., Raza, A., Qureshi, N.A., Yasinzai, M., and Gendelman, H.E., 'Development of Mannose-Anchored Thiolated Amphotericin B Nanocarriers for Treatment of Visceral Leishmaniasis', Nanomedicine, 2017, 12 (2): 99-115.
48. A Raza, M Ovais, H Aziz, A Anwar, J Irfan, I Ahmad, M Mukhtar. Evaluation of Temporal Virological Responses to Interferon-α-2b plus Ribavirin among Genotype 3a Hepatitis C Virus- Infected Patients. Intervirology 60 (3), 75-81
49. Ovais, M, Nadhman, A., A.T. Khalil, A. Raza, Farhan S, Fazli K M. N. Islam, H. S. Sarwar, G. Shahnaz, I. Ahmad, M. Saravanan, Z. Khan Shinwari. Biosynthesized colloidal silver and gold nanoparticles as emerging leishmanicidal agents: An insight .Nanomedicine 12(3): 2807-2819
50. Asad Zia, Muhammad Ali, Sohail Akhtar, Muhammad Zia, A. Raza. (2017). Factors linked to sustained virological response rates during antiviral therapy in chronic Hepatitis-C patients from slums of Islamabad. Int. J. Biosci., (10), 354–362.
51. Azhar Mehmood, M J Asad, M Ovais, N Zaman, H Aziz, J Irfan, I Ahmad, and A Raza. The Absence of HCV RNA and NS5A Protein in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Is a Prognostic Tool for Sustained Virological Response. Viral Immunology, 2017, 30(8): 1–8. DOI: 10.1089/vim.2017.0030
Current profession
Current professional activities type:TeachingInvolve in entrepreneurship in biotechnology Ecofriendly product development for agriculture use