J. M. A. Hannan

J. M. A. Hannan is the founder chairman and professor of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh and the Department of Pharmacy, Independent University, Bangladesh. He is currently the dean of the School of Pharmacy and Public Health at Independent University Bangladesh. He has over 17 years of teaching and research experience. He has published a textbook on pharmaceutical statistics, the only of its kind published by a Bangladeshi author.

Education In 1991, Hannan graduated from Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka, with a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree, and the next year completed a Master of Pharmacy degree from the same university. He earned a PhD in pharmacology in 2004 from University of Ulster, UK for his dissertation Studies on the efficacy and mechanism of action of tropical plants for diabetes therapy.

Career

Source: Effect of plant fractions on insulin secretion in perfused rat pancreas and isolated islets. Effect of antidiabetic plant materials on carbohydrate digestion and absorption in the gut of rats. Studies on fish oils for the management of insulin resistance, dyslipidemia and platelet aggregation associated with type 2 diabetes. Biochemical feature of Bangladeshi Young Diabetic subjects. Glycemic status of foods specially made for diabetic patients.

Publications Hannan published a textbook on pharmaceutical statistics:

His three most cited papers (>200 times) are: