Professor Parvez Haris

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• Application of diverse biophysical techniques such as FTIR, NMR, CD, MALDI-TOF, ICP-MS, Fluorescence as well as Synchrotron based spectroscopic methods, for characterisation of medically important peptides, proteins, macromolecular interactions including protein-protein and protein-membrane interactions.  Studies are also performed on cells, tissues and biofluids.
• Development of spectroscopic and bioinformatics tools for application in the fields of proteomics, metabolomics, disease diagnosis, screening and treatment.
• Structure-function studies of novel antimicrobial agents, based mainly on peptides and proteins, to counter antibiotic resistance.
• Role of metals in health and disease through analysis of metals in the environment, diet and the human body.
• Understanding the complex relationship between diet, exposure to pollutants, nutrition, life-style, ethnicity and health through human biomonitoring studies.
• Improving human health and the environment through development of novel, environmental friendly, strategies for removal of toxic contaminants from water and the food-chain.
• Studies of migrant health with particular focus on the relationship between health and practices such as betel quid chewing, geophagy.

• Biochemical Disease Processes
• Biomedical Techniques
• Protein Structure-Function
• Advanced Topics in Biomedical Science
• Bioinformatics

PhD, BSc (Hons.)

• BSc Biomedical Science
• MSc Biomedical Science
• MPharm Pharmacy
• MSc Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, CChem)
• Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH)
• Member of the Biochemical Society (since 1986)

Chartered Chemist (CChem)

• First Supervisor: 5 PhD students
• Second Supervisor: 5 PhD students

Funding for research has been obtained from various sources including the UK Research Councils (EPSRC, BBSRC), the British Council, the European Union etc. For example, principal investigator, from DMU, on a research consortium consisting of 15 leading European Universities (awarded EU grant of €3.15 million of which €198490.46 is allocated to De Montfort University) investigating the human health impact of geogenic elements in groundwater and soils in the European Union. This was a 4 year project that started in January 2007.

• Editor-in-Chief: Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging
• Editorial Advisory Panel Member: Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering
• Editor: Biochemical Journal (until 2008)
• Editor: Analytical Cellular Oncology
• Editorial Advisor: Molecular Membrane Biology
• Committee Member and treasurer of the Protein and Peptide Science Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• Committee Member of the Molecular Structures Theme Panel of theBiochemical Society (until March 2012)