Journal of Microbiology and Modern Techniques

Dr. Farrukh Aqil is an assistant professor of medicine at the james graham brown cancer center at university of Louisville, US. He received his doctorate in microbiology from Aligarh Muslim university, India and has extensive experience of over 12 years in phytochemistry, microbiology, cancer biology and cancer prevention. Prior to moving to the United States as a postdoctoral associate in the cancer chemoprevention group, he has a faculty position in the department of biotechnology at integral university, India. He received many awards. He is an associate editor in International Research Journal of Microbiology and serves as peer reviewer for more than 30 journals. 

Dr. Farrukh Aqil’s research focus is on cancer chemoprevention primarily of breast, lung and ovarian cancers using both standard chemotherapeutic drugs and agents from natural origin like berries. The development of polymeric implants for continuous systemic and local delivery of drugs, a technology which has fetched several patents. He is developing novel combinatorial approaches for the treatment of lung and ovarian cancer by testing natural agents and standard chemo drugs using drug-sensitive and drug-resistant cancer cells.