Areefa Anjum, BUMS, MD

Areefa Anjum is currently working as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences (CIRBSc), Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), New Delhi, India. She is currently posted as a Research fellow in a field on phyto-proteomics, with research primarily focused on effect of herbal phytoconstituent (e.g., alkaloids flavonoids, phenolic etc.) interaction with human protein and their therapeutic effects. Her areas of interest include phytochemistry, pharmacognosy, phytotherapy, phyto proteomics, phyto metabolomics. As part of the ongoing research, she is working on a project titled " Targeting Alzheimer’s disease by a mixture of Unani plant extract via modulation of human kinase", which aims to explores the therapeutic potential of a formulated plant extract mixture against tau-related neurodegenerative disorders by screening active fractions using biochemical and cell-based assays. It aims to uncover the molecular mechanism, with a focus on MARK4 inhibition and contributes to the development of herbal or natural product-based drug discovery for treating tauopathies such as Alzheimer’s disease.

She has contributed to scientific literature with several publications such as:

1. Areefa Anjum, Mohd. Aslam, Shahid Shah Chaudhary. A Review on Nigella sativa (Kalonji) Seeds: A Universal Healer. (2020). CELLMED, 10(2), e11.

2. Varisha Anjum, Uday Bagale, Ammar Kadi, Artem Malinin, Irina Potoroko, Amal H. Alharbi, DoaaSami Khafaga, Marawa Al-Metwally, Al-Seyday T. Qenawy, Areefa Anjum and Faraat Ali. Process Optimization of Tinospora cordifolia Extract-Loaded Water in Oil Nanoemulsion Developed by Ultrasound-Assisted Homogenization. Molecules 2024, 29, 1797

3. Varisha Anjum, Uday Bagale, Ammar Kadi, Irina Potoroko, Shirish H. Sonawane and Areefa Anjum. Unveiling Various Facades of Tinospora cordifolia Stem in Food: Medicinal and Nutraceutical Aspects. Molecules 2023, 28(20), 7073.