Director, Technical and Finance
Dr. Choudhury Mahmood Hasan was born on 31st August 1953, in the Chittagong District of Bangladesh. He obtained his B. Pharm. (Hons) and M. Pharm. (Thesis group) degree from Dhaka University, securing First position in First Class in both examinations. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from the Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom. He was awarded Commonwealth Scholarship for doing Ph.D. (1978-1981) at the Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship (1990-1991) to work as a visiting scientist in the same university and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Senior Fellowship (Nov-Dec, 2004) for doing research in Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan.
Dr. Hasan joined the Department of Pharmacy, DU, on 28th January 1978 and progressed through the ranks to Professor in the same department in March 1992 and retired on 30th June 2019. He was the Chairman of this Dept. from 1992 to 1993. He was the Director of the Drug Administration, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, from July 1993 to January 1997. He was elected as the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy for two terms from 1999 to 2003. He was the Chairman of BCSIR (Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) from 11th August 2005 to 10th August 2008. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Manarat International University for four years from 13th October 2012 to 12th October 2016. Emeritus Professor of Pharmacy Dept. of Manarat Int. University from 1st February 2021 till date.
He was a member of the Pharmacy Council (1993-1997, 2001-2008) and also the Chairman of the Accreditation and Education Committee. Dr. Hasan, as a member of the expert committee, played a pivotal role in the inclusion of "herbal drugs" in the National Drug Policy 2005 and which was later incorporated in the Drug Ordinance 2005.
His research focuses on the chemical and biological studies of local medical plants with emphasis on structure elucidation of the secondary metabolites by spectroscopic techniques (UV, IR, NMR, MS, etc.). So far his supervised/co-supervised the research of at least 5 Ph.D and about 60 M.Pharm. students of Dhaka University. At present, he is co-supervisor/co-supervisor of 7 Ph.D. and 3 M.pharm students. He is the main/co-author of 301 peer-reviewed papers published in international and national scientific journals. He was the chairman/ co-chairman/ plenary lecturer/ presenter/ participator in 66 international seminars/symposia held in 25 countries of the world (including UK, USA, Japan, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Australia etc.).
For his outstanding contribution to medicinal plant research and biological science, he was awarded the Habibur Rahman Gold Medal 2003, Bangladesh Academy of Science Gold Medal 2006 (senior group), Chandrabati Gold Medal 2007 and Atish Dipankar Gold Medal 2008.
Dr. Hasan is a member of American Chemical Society (ACS), American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP), Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (FBAS), Elected Vice President of FBAS, for 3 Years in 2019 and fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).
He was a Director of Essential Drug Company Ltd (EDCL) owned by Govt. of Bangladesh. (1993-1997). Dr. Hasan has been serving as Director of The IBN SINA Pharmaceutical Industry PLC since 2013 and currently, he is serving as Director, Technical and Finance of the Company and Managing Director of The IBN SINA API Industry Ltd.,. He is also the Director of The IBN SINA Natural Medicine Ltd. The IBN SINA Polymer Industry Ltd., Prof. Hasan is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The IBN SINA Trust (IST).