KAM-School of Life Sciences
Extension Number: 622
Office Number: S-310C

BRIEF PROFILE
Dr. Afifa Navid is an Assistant Professor at Kauser Abdullah Malik School of Life Sciences. She has accomplished her Ph.D. is in Bioinformatics from National center of Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Her research interest revolves around Computer Aided Drug Designing, Microbial informatics, Molecular Docking and Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of proteins to understand the structure and dynamical behavior of proteins. She has Published eight research articles in well reputed international journals.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
• MS in Bioinformatics, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad
• BS in Bioinformatics, International Islamic University, Islamabad

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

1. Navid, A., Yousaf, R., & Azam, S. S. (2022). Discovery of novel Glutaminase allosteric inhibitors through drug repurposing and comparative MMGB/PBSA and molecular dynamics simulation. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 105669.
2. Zaman, N., Parvaiz, N., Farid, R., Navid, A., Abbas, G., & Azam, S. S. (2022). Senna makki and other active phytochemicals: Myths and realities behind covid19 therapeutic interventions. PloS one, 17(6), e0268454.
3. Navid, A., Ahmad, S., Sajjad, R., Raza, S., & Azam, S. S. (2021). Structure Based in Silico Screening Revealed a Potent Acinetobacter baumannii Ftsz Inhibitor from Asinex Antibacterial Library. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
4. Ahmad, S., Navid, A., Farid, R., Abbas, G., Ahmad, F., Zaman, N., … & Azam, S. S. (2020). Design of a novel multi epitope-based vaccine for pandemic coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by vaccinomics and probable prevention strategy against avenging zoonotics. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 151, 105387.
5. Ahmad, S., Navid, A., Akhtar, A. S., Azam, S. S., Wadood, A., & Pérez-Sánchez, H. (2019). Subtractive genomics, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation revealed LpxC as a potential drug target against multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, 11(3), 508-526.
6. Ahmad, S., Baseer, S., Navid, A., Ahmad, F., & Azam, S. S. (2018). An integrated computational hierarchy for identification of potent inhibitors against shikimate kinase enzyme from Shigella sonnei, a major cause of global dysentery. Gene Reports, 11, 283-293.
7. Ehsan, N., Ahmad, S., Navid, A., & Azam, S. S. (2018). Identification of potential antibiotic targets in the proteome of multi-drug resistant Proteus mirabilis. Meta Gene, 18, 167-173.
8. Sikander Azam, S., Ahmad, S., Navid, A., Sajid, N. U. A., Ahmad, I., & Wadood, A. (2018). Implications of sequence conservation patterns of serpin B family leading to structural and functional importance. Gene Reports, 12, 30-38.