Department of Chemistry
Extension Number: 547
Office Number: S-103

Brief Profile
Dr. Shazma has over 24 years of teaching, research, and administrative experience in various institutions in Pakistan. She has been a member of the chemistry faculty at FCCU since September 2004. Currently, she is working as a Chairperson of the Department of Chemistry. Additionally, she has also been supervising the MPhil Chemistry program as a Coordinator from 2017-2023. She teaches and supervises students both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is HEC approved supervisor.
Her teaching interests are Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry. Her research interests are Isolation and study of biomaterials useful for pharmaceutical applications such as binders in tablets, formation of suspensions, capsule shell, contact lenses, targeted and controlled drug delivery devices, and determination of stability constants of metal complexes. She conducted research on biopolymers at The University of Nottingham, UK, in 2012. She is a member of American Chemical Society, USA since 2016. She presented her research papers in the 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Diego, USA in 2016 and in Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) 2018 and 2020 in Florida and Chicago, USA.
She has attended two international workshops in 2017. First one Global Liberal Arts Alliance Workshop for Science and Engineering Faculty organized by Great Lakes Colleges Association held on June 18-21, 2017 on the campus of the American College of Greece in Athens, Greece. The goal of the workshop was to build an international community of science faculty at liberal arts colleges who share ideas, resources, and enthusiasm about teaching and learning in the sciences. Topics covered at the workshop included: “backward” design in curriculum development, writing student learning goals, matching assessment of student learning to goals, using rubrics for assessment, and the value of using articles from the scientific literature in the classroom to teach fundamental concepts through current research examples. Second workshop was organized by American Chemical Society and US state agency in Melbourne, Australia from July 17-23, 2017. Its title was ACS Global liberal Code of Ethics Science and Technology Leadership institute, and the main focus was on safety and security of chemicals, publishing research, Leadership and Logistics, communicating science. She is a proficient user of Turnitin and Moodle.

Education

• PhD Research: The University of Nottingham, UK (IRSIP)
• PhD: Government College University Lahore, Pakistan
• MPhil: Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan
• MSc: Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan

Research & Publications

1.  Shazma Massey, Farah Iqbal, Atta Ur Rehman, Muhammad Saeed Iqbal, Fozia Iram (2022); Preparation, characterization and biological evaluation of silver nanoparticles and drug loaded composites for wound dressings formed from Lallemantia royleana seeds’ mucilage. Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition, 33:4, 481-498.
2. Shazma Massey, Saania Sisal, Muhammad Zaman, Atta Ur Rehman, Amina Asghar (2022). Thiol modification of galactoarabinan and its appraisal as controlled release carrier of sofosbuvir. Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 68(2022)103033.
3. Saaid Hameed, Atta Ur Rehman, Shazma Massey, Nawazish-I-Husain Syed, Fareeha Anwar, Dildar Ahmed, Sarfraz Ahmad (2022); Grevillea robusta delayed the progression of experimentally induced hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis in Wistar rats by attenuating the expression of smooth muscle actin, collagen and TGF-ß. Frontiers in Pharmacology, section Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Pharmacology.
4. Shabbir Hussain, Rabia Kiran, Muhammad Ahmad, Muhammad Saqib, Khurram Shahzad Munawar, Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Waqas, Shazma Massey, Rifat Jawaria, Rabia Baby (2023); Synthesis, spectroscopy and biological studies of triphenyltin (IV) derivatives with carboxylated Schif bases. Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society, 20, 1191-1203. 
5. Rabia Manzar, Shazma Massey, Laiba Arshad and Irva Waqar (2023); Exploring the potential of natural polymers from plants as tablet binder and accessing their release profiles: A comparative analysis. Pak. J. Pharm. Sci., 36(5), 1663-1670. doi.org/10.36721/PJPS.2023.36.5.SP.1663-1670.1.
6. Aniqa Nasir, Rashid Masih, Shazma Massey, Laiba Arshad, Sabi Ur Rehman, Irva Waqar and Anwar Khalid (2023); Isoconversional Thermal Analysis of Cydonia oblonga Mucilage Composite Wound Dressing. Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Research, 36(4): 318-326.
7. Sabi Ur Rehman, Laiba Arshad, Saman Ali, Shazma Massey, Safeer Khan, Abdul Samad and Fazal-Ur-Rehman (2023). Unlocking the medicinal potential of Sarcococca saligna: Green synthesis of silver and gold nanoparticles for enhanced antibacterial and antifungal applications. Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Research, 36(4): 327-334.
8. Amina Asghar, Shafaq Mabarak, Bilal Ashraf, Muhammad Rizwan, Shazma Massey, Basim H. Asghar, Bilal Shahid, Tahir Rasheed (2024) Published online on Nov.28, 2023. A sustainable approach for the removal of chlorpyrifos pesticide from aqueous phase using novel nano magnetized biochar. Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 159, 11790.
9. Asad Gulzar, Bisma Sher, Shabbir Hussain, Abdul Ahad Rasheed, Muhammad Salman, Shazma Massey, & Abdur Rauf. (2023). Nutritional Study of Various Cow Breeds from Bhatta Chowk Lahore (Punjab), Pakistan. Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences: A. Physical and Computational Sciences, 60(3).
10. Kashif Javaid, Shabbir Hussain, Shahzada Khurram Syed, Iqbal Ahmad, Shazma Massey, Amina Asghar, Israr Ahmad, Muhammad Amjad, Aqsa Rukhsar, Maleeha Hafeez (2023); Phytochemistry, medicinal and nutritional importance of asparagus racemosus. Postępy biologii komórki, 49:3, 175–192. https://doi. 10.59674/pbk2.
11. Fozia Iram, Shazma Massey, Mohammad S Iqbal and Douglas G. Ward (2018); Structural investigation of hemicelluloses from Plantago ovata, Mimosa pudica and Lallemantia royleana by MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry. Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry, 37(5): 285-301.
12. Shazma Massey, Mohammad S. Iqbal, Bettina Wolf, Irfana Mariam, and Shumaila Rao (2016); Comparative drug loading and release study on some carbohydrate polymers. Latin American Journal of Pharmacy, 35(1): 146-154.
13. Fozia Iram , Abida Yasmeen, Shazma Massey, Mohammad S. Iqbal , Sumreen Asim, Misbah Irshad, Hina Zahid, Athar Y. Khan, Syed G.T. Kazimi (2021); Synthesis of gold and silver nanoparticles by use of arabinoglucan from Lallemantia royleana. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 191: 1137-1150.
14. Shazma Massey, William MacNaughtan, Huw E L Williams, Bettina Wolf and Mohammad S. Iqbal (2017); A structural study of Acacia nilotica and Acacia modesta gums. Carbohydrate Polymers, 175: 207-215.
15. Mohammad S. Iqbal, Shazma Massey, Jamshed Akbar, Chaudhury M. Ashraf, Rashid Masih (2013); Thermal analysis of some natural polysaccharide materials by isoconversional method. Food Chemistry, 140(1-2):178-82.
16. Jamshed Akbar, Mohammad S. Iqbal, Shazma Massey, Rashid Masih (2012); Kinetics and mechanism of thermal degradation of pentose- and hexose-based carbohydrate polymers. Carbohydrate polymers, 90(3):1386-93.
17. Jamshed Akbar, Mohammad S. Iqbal, Shazma Massey, Rashid Masih (2012); Kinetics and mechanism of thermal degradation of pentose- and hexose-based carbohydrate polymers. Carbohydrate polymers, 90(3):1386-93.
18. Jamshed Akbar, Mohammad S. Iqbal, Muhammad T. Chaudhary, Tallat Yasin, Shazma Massey (2012); A QSPR study of drug release from an arabinoxylan using ab initio optimization and neural networks. Carbohydrate Polymers, 88:1348-1357.

PUBLICATION IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDING

1. Shazma Azeem, Farah Iqbal, Atta ur Rehman (2020). Preparation, Characterization and Evaluation of Nanoparticle Polymeric Composite Dressing for Drug Release and Wound Healing. Pittsburgh conference 2020 (PITTCON Conference and Expo 2020) in Chicago, USA from March1-5, 2020 organized by Society of Analytical Chemistry & Applied Spectroscopy.
2. Shazma Azeem (2018); Characterization and Evaluation of Some Biopolymers as Drug Delivery Devices and Pharmaceutical Excipients. Pittsburgh conference 2018 (PITTCON Conference and Expo 2018), in Orlando, USA from Feb26, 2018 – March1, 2018 organized by Society of Analytical Chemistry & Applied Spectroscopy.
3. Shazma Azeem (2016); Isolation, characterization, and pharmaceutical applications of polysaccharides from plants. ACS 251 national meeting, March 13-17, 2016 in San Diego, California, USA.
4. Shazma Azeem (2015); Preformulation Studies by the use of Biopolymers as Potential Drug Delivery Agents. Conference organized by the Department of Chemistry, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) Lahore, Pakistan on Exploring New Avenues in Medicinal Chemistry, Opportunities & Challenges from January 21-23, 2015.

CHAPTER IN BOOK
Ellene Tratras Contis, Uzma Ashiq, Shazma Massey, Sammia Shahid, Amita Verma (2018); Responsible Conduct in Chemical Safety and Security Practices in South Asia. Chapter 11, pp 157-170 (DOI: 10.1021/bk-2018-1288.ch011) in Responsible Conduct in Chemistry Research and Practice: Global Perspectives published by Oxford University Press.