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Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Kamal
Associate Professor (HoD)
PhD Analytical Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China

Dr. Kamal serves at the Institute of Chemistry, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan as an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry. He obtained his PhD degree in 2017 from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China by availing the prestigious CAS-TWAS President’s Fellowship. After that he also worked at the Government College University Faisalabad Pakistan. He won merit scholarships during the SSC and HSSC. Research area of Dr. Kamal is mainly focused on Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry covering the fields of metabolomics for food chemistry, drug and disease metabolism studies, phytochemistry and environmental chemistry. He has supervised 40 MS and 02 PhD students till date. To date Dr. Kamal has published 48 journal papers with several in high impact journals earning total impact factor of ≅200. Dr. Kamal has also published 08 book chapters and organized/participated in several national and international conferences/seminars/trainings. He has also focussed his research on the valorisation of biowastes into value added products and 03 of such ideas have been filed as patents with Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan (IPO). He has completed 02 Start-up Research Grants from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan in the capacity of PI and Co-PI. He also won a research grant from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan under “National Research Program for Universities in the capacity of PI. He has been working on various important administrative positions including Head of Department, Treasurer, Additional Controller of Exams, Coordinator Board of Advanced Studies and Research, Chairperson Affiliation Committee, Director Institute of Health Sciences etc.

  1. Nadeem Muhammad, Amjad Ali, Hairong Cui, Abdullatif Bin Muhsinah, Muhammad Abdul Qadir, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal*, Jalal Uddin, Shoaib Munir. 2024. An Investigation of the Potential of Rhodamine B Hydrazide as a Fluorescent Probe for Enhancing Latent Fingerprints. Results in Chemistry. In press. (IF 2.5).
  2. Jalal Uddin, Samra Yasmin, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal*, Mufarreh Asmari, Muhammad Saqib, Heyu Chen. 2024. Changes in Metabolite Profiles of Chinese Soy Sauce at Different Time Durations of Fermentation Studied by 1H-NMR-Based Metabolomics. Metabolites 2024,14,285. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo14050285. (IF 4.1).
  3. Noor Ul Ain Khakwani, Muhammad Aadil, Imad Barsoum, Zubair Ahmad, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal*, Md Rezaul Karim, Asma A. Alothman, Muhammad Farooq Warsi*. 2024. Tailoring the physical, optical, and structural properties of bismuth oxide to enhance its anionic, cationic, and phenol dye degradation activities. Ceramics International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2024.06.143. (IF 5.2).
  4. Jalal Uddin, Mehwish Fatima, Ammara Riaz, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal*, Abdullatif Bin Muhsinah, Abdul Razzaq Ahmed, Ramsha Iftikhar. 2024. Pharmacological Potential of Micheliolide: A Focus on anti-inflammatory and anticancer activities. Heliyon. 5;10(6):e27299. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27299. (IF 4.0).
  5. Muhammad Saqib*, Muhammad Sagir, Munawar Lal Joshi, Shahida Bashir, Mohamed Ibrahim Halawa, Saman Ali, Hosam O Elansary*, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal. 2024. Screening and designing of a large chemical space of organic semiconductors for photodetectors.Materials Today Communications. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2024.108062. (IF 3.8).
  6. Ramsha Iftikhar, Iqra Parveen, Aqsa Mazhar, Muhammad Saqlain Iqbal, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Freeha Hafeez, Pang Ai Ling, Mohsen Ahmadipour*. 2023. Small Organic Molecules as Fluorescent sensors for the Detection of Highly Toxic Heavy Metal Cations in Portable Water.Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. 11(1): 109030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2022.109030. (IF 7.968).
  7. Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Nafia Nazi, Asma Sabir, Muhammad Saqib, Xu Zhang*, Bin Jiang*, Jallat Khan, Ayesha Noreen, Jalal Uddin and Shahzad Murtaza. 2023. Yield and chemical composition of ginger essential oils as affected by inter-varietal variation and drying treatments of rhizome. Separations. 10, 186. https://doi.org/10.3390/separations10030186. (IF 3.344).
  8. Jehad Saleh, Sajjad Haider, Muhammad Saeed Akhtar, Muhammad Saqib*, Muqadas Javed, Sayed Elshahat and Ghulam Mustafa Kamal. 2023. Prediction of Organic Semiconductors for Photodetectors and Mining of a Photovoltaic Database to Search for New Building Units. Molecules. 28, 1240. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28031240. (IF 4.927).
  9. Nazir, A.*; Tahir, M.S.; Kamal, G.M.; Zhang, X*.; Tahir, M.B.; Jiang, B.; Safdar, M. 2023. Fabrication of Ternary MoS2/CdS/Bi2S3-Based Nano Composites for Photocatalytic Dye Degradation. Molecules. 28, 3167. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28073167. (IF 4.927).
  10. Ahmad, S.*; Tahir, M.S.; Kamal, G.M.; Zhang, X.*; Nazir, S.; Tahir, M.B.; Jiang, B.; Safdar, M. 2023. TiO2/Activated Carbon/2D Selenides Composite Photocatalysts for Industrial Wastewater Treatment. Water, 15, 1788. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15091788. (IF 3.530).
  11. Murtaza M, Hussain AI, Kamal GM*, Nazir S, Chatha SAS, Asmari M, Uddin J*, Murtaza S. 2023 Potential Applications of Microencapsulated Essential Oil Components in Mosquito Repellent Textile Finishes. Coatings. 13(8):1467. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings13081467.(IF 3.4).
  12. Muhammad Imran Tousif, Muhammad Saleem, Saba Tauseef, Mamona Nazir, Tahira Ruby, Reaz Uddin, Sharon Elaine D'souza, Muhammad Aleem Ashraf, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Jallat Khan, Gokhan Zengin*. 2023. Unrivalled insight into potential biopharmaceutical application of Saussurea albescens (DC.) Sch. Bip.: Chemical profiling, antioxidant and enzyme inhibition activities and in silico studies.Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology. 54: 102964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcab.2023.102964. (IF 4).
  13. Muhammad Saqib*, Mariam Zafar, Mohamed Ibrahim Halawa, Shahzad Murtaza, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Guobao Xu. 2023. Nanoscale Luminescence Imaging/Detection of Single Particles: State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects.ACS Measurement Science & Technology.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.3c00052.
  14. Ghulam Mustafa Kamal*, Jalal Uddin,Xiaohua Wang, Ayesha Noreen, Asma Sabir, Syed Ghulam Musharraf. 2022. 1H NMR-based metabolomics and 13C isotopic ratio analysis to differentiate conventional and organic soy sauce. Arab. J. of Chemistry. 15(1): 103516. (IF 5.162).
  15. Ghulam Mustafa Kamal; Maham Nadia Rehmani; Shahzad Zafar Iqbal; Jalal Uddin; Saima Nazir; Jalil Ur Rehman; Abdullah Ijaz Hussain; Amin Mousavi Khaneghah*. 2022. The concentration of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in milk from the Southern Cities of Punjab, Pakistan: A health risk assessment study. Journal of Food Composition & Analysis. 108(2022):104446 (IF 4.556).
  16. Neelam Iftikhar, Abdullah Ijaz Hussain*, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Sidra Manzoor, Tabinda Fatima, Farhan Khashim Alswailmi, Ashfaq Ahmad, Bader Alsuwayt and Sulaiman Mohammed Abdullah Alnasser*. 2022. Antioxidant, Anti-Obesity, and Hypolipidemic Effects of Polyphenol Rich Star Anise (Illicium verum) Tea in High-Fat-Sugar Diet-Induced Obesity Rat Model. Antioxidants. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox11112240. (IF 7.675).
  17. Danhao Zheng, Zhao Li, Shuang Li, Xihai Li, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Chaoyang Liu, Fuqiang Xu, Qingjia Bao, Jie Wang*. 2021. Identification of metabolic kinetic patterns of different brain regions using metabolomic methods coupled with various discriminant approaches. Journal of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Analysis. 198:114027. (IF 3.935).
  18. Bin Yuan, Zhiming Zhou, Bin Jiang, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Xu Zhang*, Conggang Li, Xin Zhou and Maili Liu*. 2021. NMR for Mixture Analysis: Concentration-Ordered Spectroscopy. Anal. Chem. 93, 9697−9703. (IF 6.986).
  19. Odette Concepcion, Akbar Ali, Muhammad Khalid*, Alexander F. de la Torre, Muhammad Usman Khan, Abdul Rauf Raza, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Muhammad Fayyaz ur Rehman Mohammed Mujahid Alam, Muhammad Imran, Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga, and Mariano W. Pertino. 2021. Facile Synthesis of Diversely Functionalized Peptoids, Spectroscopic Characterization, and DFT-Based Nonlinear Optical Exploration. ACS Omega. 6(40): 2601626025. (IF 3.512).
  20. Zhiwei Miao, Qianqian Wang, Xiongjie Xiao,Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Linhong Song, Xu Zhang, Conggang Li, Xin Zhou, Bin Jiang*& Maili Liu*.2021. CSI-LSTM: a web server to predict protein secondary structure using bidirectional long short-term memory and NMR chemical shifts. J. Biomol. NMR. 75(2021): 393-400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10858-02100383-9 (IF 2.835).
  21. Akbar Ali, Muhammad Khalid*, Kelly P. Marrugo, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Muhammad Saleem, Muhammad Usman Khan, Odette Concepción, Alexander F.de la Torre*. 2020. Spectroscopic and DFT/TDDFT insights of the novel phosphonate imine compounds. Journal of Molecular Structure. 1207:127838. (IF 3.196)
  22. Muhammad Khalid*, Akbar Ali, Alexander F. De la Torre*, Kelly P. Marrugo, Odette Concepcion,Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Shabbir Muhammad, Abdullah G. Al‐Sehemi.2020. Facile Synthesis, Spectral (IR, Mass, UV−Vis, NMR), Linear and Nonlinear Investigation of the Novel Phosphonate Compounds: A Combined Experimental and Simulation Study. Chemistry Select. 5(10):2994-3006. (IF 2.109).
  23. Mudasir Majeed, Abdullah Ijaz Hussain*, Shahzad Ali Shahid Chatha, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Qasim Ali. 2020. Discrimination of Mungbean Cultivars/Varieties Based on Minor Saccharides Composition by HPLC Coupled with Multivariate Statistical Analysis. J. Chem. Soc. Pak. 42(3):418-428. (IF 0.536).
  24. Hanif M. U., Hussain A. I.*, Kamal G. M.*, Chatha S. A. S., Shabnam S., Hussain R. Khalid M. 2020. Chemical composition and bioactivity of essential oil from leaves of Syzigium cumini (L.) skeels native to Punjab Pakistan. Chemistry and Biodiversity: https://doi.org/10.1002/cbdv.201900733 (IF 2.408).
  25. Bin Yuan, Xu Zhang*, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Bin Jiang, Maili Liu*. 2020. Accurate estimation of diffusion coefficient for molecular identification in a complex background. Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry. 412(19):4519-4525 (IF 4.142).
  26. Yuan Huang, Hongying Du*, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Qiongju Cao, Chen Liu, Shanbai Xiong, Qilin Huang. 2020. Studies on the binding interactions of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) myosin with chlorogenic acid and rosmarinic acid. Food & Bioprocess Technology: 13:1421-1434. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11947-020-02483-0 (IF 4.465).
  27. Ting Hu, Quanfei Zhu, Yuning Hu, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal, Yuqi Feng, Anne Manyande, Jie Wang*, Fuqiang Xu*. 2020. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of regional cerebral free fatty acids in rats with stable isotope labelling assisted liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry method. Molecules. 25(21), 5163; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25215163 (IF 4.411).
  28. Xiaohua Wang, Wei Zou, G. M. Kamal*, Jie Wang, Mi Zhou, Li Chen, Bin Jiang, Muhammad Khalid, Xu Zhang and Maili Liu. 2020. An untargeted 13C isotopic evaluation approach for the discrimination of fermented food matrices at natural abundance: application to vinegar. Talanta 2020(1):120679 (IF 6.057).
  29. Mudasir Majeed, Qasim Ali, Shahzad Ali Shahid Chatha, Abdullah Ijaz Hussain*, G. M. Kamal, Nadeem Abbas Faisal. 2019. Growth stage effect on proximate composition, minerals and sugar profile of the aerial parts of some candidate varieties of mung bean (Vigna radiata L.). International Journal of Biology 14(4):444-456.
  30. Khalid, Muhammad*; Bullo, Saifullah; Kamal, Mustafa; Tahir, Muhammad; Shafiq, Zahid; Naseer, Muhammad; Ashraf, Abida; Yaqub, Muhammad; Braga, Ataualpa*; Rauf, Waqar. 2019. A Facile and Concise Route to Hydroxy Benzoyl Pyrido [2,3-d] Pyrimidine Heterocycles Derivatives: Synthesis, Structural, Spectral and Computational Exploration. RSC Advances. 2019(9):34567-34580 (IF 3.361).2018
  31. Jie Wang, Hao-Long Zeng, Hongying Du, Zeyuan Liu, Ji Cheng, Taotao Liu, Ting Hu, G. M. Kamal, Xihai Li, Huili Liu, Fuqiang Xu*. 2018. Evaluation of metabolites extraction strategies for identifying different brain regions and their relationship with alcohol preference and gender difference using NMR metabolomics. Talanta. 179(2018):369-376 (IF 6.057).
  32. M. U. Hanif, A. I. Hussain, S. A. S. Chatha, G. M. Kamal*, Tanveer Ahmad. 2018. Variation in composition and bioactivities of essential oil from leaves of two different cultivars of Psidium guajava L. Journal of essential Oil Bearing Plants. 21(1):65-76. (IF 1.699) (Corresponding author).
  33. Hongying Du*, Yinqiang Huo, Liu Huili, G. M. Kamal, Jiaren Yang, Yongchao Zeng, Siming Zhao and Youming Liu. 2018. Fast nutritional characterization of different pigmented rice grains using a combination of NMR and decision tree analysis. CyTA-Journal of Food. 17(1): 128-136. (IF 2.255).
  34. Taotao Liu, Zhigang He, Xuebi Tian, G. M. Kamal, Zeyuan Liu, Huili Liu, Fuqiang Xu*, Jie Wang*, Hongbing Xiang. 2017. Spinal metabolites underlying alpha-Me-5-HT-evoked pruritus compared with histamine and capsaicin assessed by proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. BBA-Molecular Basis of Disease. 1863(2017):1222-1230. (IF 5.187).
  35. Bin Yuan, Yiming Ding, G. M.Kamal, Limin Shao, Zhiming Zhou, Bin Jiang, Peng Sun, Xu Zhang*, Maili Liu*. 2017. Effective identification of compounds in mixtures by simultaneous inversion of Laplace transform based diffusion ordered NMR spectroscopy. J Magnetic Resonance. 278(2017):1-7. (IF 2.229).
  36. Hao-Long Zeng, Qing Yang, Hongying Du, Huijun Li, Taotao Liu, Chen Xi, G. M. Kamal, Jie Wang*, Fuqiang Xu*. 2017. Proteomics and metabolomics analysis of hepatic mitochondrial metabolism in alcohol-preferring and non-preferring rats. Oncotarget. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.22040. (IF 5.168).
  37. Muhammad Adnan Ayub, Abdullah Ijaz Hussain*, Muhammad Asif Hanif, Shahzad Ali Shahid Chatha, G. M. Kamal*, Muhammad Shahid, Omar Janneh. 2017. Variation in phenolic profile, β-carotene and flavonoid contents, biological activities of two Tagetes species from Pakistani flora. Chemistry & Biodiversity. doi: 10.1002/cbdv.201600463. (Corresponding author) (IF 2.408).
  38. G. M. Kamal, Xiaohua Wang, Bin Yuan, Jie Wang, Peng Sun, Xu Zhang* and Maili Liu*. 2016. Compositional differences among Chinese soy sauce types studied by 13C NMR spectroscopy coupled with multivariate statistical analysis, Talanta, 158:89-99. (IF 6.057).
  39. G. M. Kamal, Bin Yuan, Abdullah Ijaz Hussain, Jie Wang, Bin Jiang, Xu Zhang*, Maili Liu*. 2016. 13C NMR-based metabolomic profiling of typical Asian soy sauces. Molecules 21(9): DOI: 10.3390/molecules21091168. (IF 4.411).
  40. Yinqiang Huo1, G. M. Kamal1, Gaonan Zhang, Zhengyi Hu, Jie Wang*. 2016. 1H NMR based metabolomics for the discrimination of rice from different geographical origins of China. Journal of Cereal Science. 76(2017):243-252. (IF 3.616)
  41. Xiaohua Wang, Jie Wang, G. M. Kamal, Bin Jiang, Xu Zhang*, Maili Liu*. Metabolic characterization and comparison of Chinese cereal and European grape vinegars by NMR spectroscopy. Chinese J Chemistry. 2016. dx.doi.org/10.1002/cjoc.201600365. (IF 6.00).
  42. Abdullah Ijaz Hussain, Shahzad Ali Shahid Chatha, G. M. Kamal*, Muhammad Adnan Ali, Muhammad Asif Hanif, Muhammad Ibrahim Lazhari. 2016. Chemical composition and biological activities of Ocimum sanctum essential oil and different extracts. Int. J Food properties, 20(7): 1569-1581. (Corresponding author). (IF 2.727).
  43. Farooq Anwar, G. M. Kamal*, Farooq Nadeem, Ghulam Shabir. 2016. Variations of quality characteristics among oils of different soybean varieties. J King Saud University-Science. 28: 332-338. (IF 4.011) (Corresponding author).
  44. Mudasir Majeed, Abdullah I Hussain, Shahzad A.S. Chatha, Muhammad K.K. Khosa, G. M. Kamal*, Mohammad A. Kamal, Xu Zhang, Maili Liu*. 2015. Optimization protocol for the extraction of antioxidant components from Origanum vulgare leaves using response surface methodology. Saudi J Biological Sciences. 23:389-396. (Corresponding author) (IF 4.219).
  45. Rongxiang Chen, Yinghua Deng, Jiao Yao, G. M. Kamal, Jie Wang*, Fuqiang Xu*. 2015. Assessment of amino acid neurotransmitters in rat brain microdialysis samples by high performance liquid chromatography with coulometric detection. Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies, 38(15):1439-1447. (IF 1.312).
  46. G. M. Kamal, M. Y. Ashraf*, A. I. Hussain, A. Shahzadi and M. I. Chughtai. 2013. Antioxidant potential of peel essential oils of three Pakistani citrus species: Citrus reticulata, Citrus sinensis and Citrus paradisii. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 45(4):1449-54. (IF 0.972).
  47. S. Hayat*, M. I. Chughtai, T. M. Ansari and G. M. Kamal. 2012. Comparative evaluation of some commercially available pharmaceutical preparations for Na, K and Mg concentrations. Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 25(2): 377-80. (IF 0.684).
  48. G. M. Kamal, Anwar, F*., Hussain, A. I., Sarri, N. and Ashraf, M. Y. 2011. Yield and chemical composition of Citrus essential oils as affected by drying pre-treatment of peels. International Food Research Journal. 18(4): 1275-82. (IF 1.014).

  • NMR & MS-based metabolomics for food chemistry, drug and disease metabolism
  • Health risk assessment of various pollutants in foods
  • Valorisation of biowastes into value added products
  • Phytochemistry & antioxidants
  • Environmental chemistry

  • NRPU Project No: 14837, (Total cost of Rs. 13938000/-)
  • Gold medal & certificate of appreciation awarded by the Chancellor/Governor Punjab Pakistan for the best performance during the year 2022-23
  • Certificate of Appreciation Awarded on July 24, 2020 by the Vice Chancellor, KFUEIT for excellent performance for the session 2019-20
  • CAS-TWAS President’s Fellowship Award for PhD studies at UCAS, Beijing China (2013-17)
  • Merit scholarships from Government of Punjab, Pakistan during SSC, F. Sc. and B. Sc.
  • Best oral presentation award in Beijing Conference & Exhibition in Instrumental Analysis (BCEIA), Beijing China, 27-30 October, 2015

  • Honorary Faculty Member, Novel Global Community Educational Foundation, NSW, Australia
  • Senior member of Hong Kong Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering Society
  • Member of “International Society for Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR)”
  • The Chemical Society of Pakistan
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Beijing China
  • The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries