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Bimal K. Banik, Ph. D. C. Chem. F. R. S. C.
President's Endowed Professor
Professor
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, Oxford, England
Telephone (office): 956-380-8741; Fax: 956-384-5006; E-mail: banik@utpa.edu
Office: SCIE 3.308
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Biography:
Dr. Bimal K. Banik is the President’s Endowed Professor and a Professor at UTPA. He is also a Professor at UT Health Science Center (San Antonio) and an Adjunct Professor at UT San Antonio. Based on his outstanding research accomplishments, teaching, mentoring and recognition the Royal Society of Chemistry, Oxford, England has designated him as a “Fellow” with a salutation “FRSC”. He was a faculty member at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston for nine years. He conducted postdoctoral research at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio and Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey. Dr. Banik was the top-ranked student in his undergraduate and graduate education and awarded gold medal by the Governor of West Bengal, India.
Professor Banik is the author of 431 patents, presentations and publications that explore organic, medicinal and biomedical science of anticancer agents, antibiotics, hormones and natural products. He and his students at UTPA have been researching on seven major challenging areas: Anticancer Beta Lactams, Antibiotics, Anticancer and Anti-infectious Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, Environmentally Benign Processes, Microwave-Induced Chemical and Biological Reactions, Green Chemistry and Steroids. His research has been extensively funded through multimillion dollar grants (4.40 million dollars) by National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Private Foundations, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and UTPA. He has chaired 14 scientific sessions at various US National Meetings and 100th year anniversary of Nobel Prize Celebration Meeting in Germany and introduced more than 300 eminent scientists around the Globe. He was the Chair of the Faculty Research Council of UTPA for the past three years. At present, he is the Program Director of the NIH and NCI Grant at UTPA and a Member of 5 US and International Scientific Societies. His research has been highlighted in Science News, 120 media exposures and 2900 citations in journals. He serves as an Editorial Board member for 6 international journals and is a reviewer of 37 journals including the American Chemical Society, Royal Society, Elsevier, Wiley, Thieme and many others. He is also a reviewer for NIH, NSF and international grant applications. Notably, he has reviewed approximately 370 journal manuscripts, 11 Ph. D. dissertations and approximately 350 grant applications. He actively collaborates with faculties at UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, University of Texas San Antonio, University of Paris, Wayne State University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Kent State University, Memorial University, University of Spain and Calcutta University.
Professor Banik has received the prestigious University of Texas Board of Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award in 2009. Clearly, this award confirms his recognition and signal honor of commitment to teaching through the delivery of the highest quality instruction. He isrecognized as one of the top mentors out of 300 for the last 18 years by the Director of the American Chemical Society SEED Program, New Jersey Division. His outstanding teaching skills at UTPA has gotten him 96.60% (excellent/good, approximately 85% excellent) evaluations in 25 courses. More than 600 UTPA students commented very highly on his outstanding teaching at the “Rate My Professor Website”, personal letters and confidential evaluation documents. He has developed many new courses and new facilities. His continuing excellence has led him to be a Finalist for the Minnie Stevens Piper Award for 3 years. He has been given the Outstanding Mentor Award by the New Jersey Board of Education, Citation by a New Jersey Senator, American Chemical Society SEED Program Director’s Certificate and numerous other Certificates by various US universities.
Professor Banik has supervised 380 research students that include 13 post doctoral fellows and numerous graduates and undergraduates. He is a highly recognized scientist, mentor and educator among his peers at the national and international level. Research opportunities provided by him at UTPA are only available to graduate/postgraduate students at other prestigious institutions. Many of his publications have become top-cited and most-cited among several thousands of publications in the World Science. His contributions can be reflected through a series of remarkable successes of his past and present students. Many of his students have completed Ph. D. and M. D. from different prestigious universities and medical schools in the US and have received university, state, national and international awards. A number of them have been accepted or completed their education at Harvard University, Yale University, MIT, Rice University, UT Southwestern Medical University, Baylor College of Medicine, Rutgers University, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, UT Austin, Texas A & M University, Stanford University and International Countries. Many of his students are employed at Merck Research Laboratories, Schering-Plough Research Institute, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Company and other Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries.
Professor Banik was the Chair of the Faculty Research Council of UTPA for the past 3 years and also chaired UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Drug discovery symposium. He has received several prestigious invitations from Wiley, Springer, Houghton Mifflin, Current Medicinal chemistry, Current Organic Chemistry, Current Anti-inflammatory Agents, Tetrahedron, Arkivoc, Heterocycles, Indian Journal of chemistry, Linus, Frontiers in Bioscience, Elsevier, Francis & Taylor, Bentham, Molecules, American Chemical Society, Royal Society, Open Access Journal and many scientific societies in the world. He has been constantly receiving many invitations to write reviews, book chapters, books, papers, concepts, highlights and to speak at national and international conferences at a very random rate. He has delivered 37 invited research presentations in New York, New Jersey, Texas, Massachusetts, California, Ohio, Missouri, Florida Toronto, Merida and India.
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Research Summary:
My laboratory efforts are directed toward synthesis of new organic compounds, synthetic method development, microwave-induced reactions and medicinal evaluation of organic compounds with a focus of understanding their interactions with living cells. Specifically, as Principal Investigator, I am working on the following projects at this time.
1. Chemistry, Biology and Pharmacology of Novel Anticancer Beta-Lactams
I have designed, synthesized and conducted a systematic analysis of chrysene and phenanthrene derivatives through an examination of their anticancer effects in vitro and in vivo. Structurally these antitumor agents are diamides in which a side chain is bound to the polycyclic system. During the course of this study, I envisioned that stereodefined beta-lactams would serve as conformationally constrained analogues of our open-chain diamides that have shown potent anticancer activity. In preliminary studies, I have synthesized and studied the stereochemical distribution of a number of novel beta-lactams. Some of them have shown promising antitumor activity in vitro against ovarian, breast, colon and leukemia cell lines and in animal tumor model systems. The cytotoxic potency of a few beta-lactams has been found to be greater than the well-known drug, cisplatin. My preliminary studies of these agents have demonstrated an extremely potent G2 blockade in the cell cycle. I am now preparing an extended series of beta-lactams, related to our lead compounds, in order to identify the structural and mechanistic correlates of anticancer activity. Several catalyst-based and chiral auxiliary-based approaches will be focused to prepare optically active beta-lactams and toinvestigate the biological properties in vitro and in vivo. My studies also include mechanism(s) of action of promising lead compounds, cell membrane interactions, DNA, RNA and protein synthesis, DNA binding and damage and effects on topoisomerase activity.
2. Organometallics in the Synthesis of Biologically Active Compounds
Metal-mediated organic transformation in the construction of natural products is an attractive area of research. I have been working on the use of organometallics for the preparation of medicinally active compounds. I have developed new metal-mediated (samarium, indium, bismuth, etc.) pathways that are synthetically challenging. For example, some of the methods are very effective for the synthesis of several medicinally active agents that include beta-glycosides, substituted beta-lactams, aromatic amines and heterocyclic compounds. My aim is to synthesize novel polycyclic aromatic systems using our samarium-induced reductive dimerization reaction. The synthesis of these multicyclic organic molecules constitutes an important advancement by which specific derivatives with anticancer activities can be prepared. In addition, I am interested in the construction of carbocyclic and heterocyclic ring systems (for example, some estrogen receptors) from acyclic precursors through radical mediated process and a route toward the synthesis of Taxol-related anticancer agents, glycosidase inhibitors and bicyclic beta-lactams.
The current focus in organic chemistry is to extend the principles of organic reactions that take place in homogeneous conditions to analogues reactions that take place on solid supported reagents. The high reactivity, convenience, cost-effective, diastereoselectivity and new chemistry associated with these metal-mediated reactions will represent a useful improvement over existing methods. Some of these methods also offer approaches that are more rapid, safer and ecologically friendly.
3. Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds as New Anticancer and Antibacterial Agents
Despite an enormous body of work that describes the cellular reaction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), the application of these derivatives as anticancer and antimicrobial agents has not been explored systematically. I have designed and synthesized a large number of planar molecules using highly lipophilic polycyclic aromatic amines as their nucleus for a systematic examination of modifications of structures that might result in selective interactions with cancer cells and bacteria in animal model. This study has established a few lead compounds that are very effective against a variety cancer cell lines and infectious microorganisms. The mechanism of action of these lead agents along with the identification of regimen is being developed at this time. From this detailed structure-activity and in vitro and in vivo studies, a few lead compounds that are highly potent in HT-29 (human colon) and SKOV-3 (human ovarian) cell lines have been developed. They have shown to produce apoptosis in HL-60 cell lines and inhibit protein synthesis, but not DNA and RNA. They are also excellent topoisomerase inhibitor. Although the major focus of therapeutic studies in cancer chemotherapy has been alterations of DNA replicative and repair functions, our studies have suggested that interactions with cell membranes may also play an important role in anticancer effectiveness.
4. Medicinal Chemistry by Microwave-Induced Reactions
The use of domestic microwave in organic synthesis, inorganic chemistry and medicinal chemistry is well established. This is particularly very interesting because of the unconventional set up for conducting the reaction to take advantages of the specific nature of microwave energy. As a part of my endeavor to synthesize medicinally active compounds, I have demonstrated the application of microwave irradiation in our work. For example, this method has been extensively used for the preparation of our anticancer beta-lactams and products derived from them. At present, I am pursuing the synthesis of organic compounds using domestic microwave oven in the presence of solid support. It has been demonstrated by our group that the stereochemistry of many organic compounds can be altered with the proper selection of the microwave energy. I am particularly interested in the Lewis acid-mediated reactions of indoles, pyrroles and carbamates since these skeletons are frequently used as medicinally important targets.
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Selected Publications
(of more than 430 publications, patents, presentations, reviews, and book chapters)
S. Rivera, D. Bandyopadhyay and B. K. Banik*, “Facile Synthesis of N-Substituted PyrrolesVia Microwave-Induced Bismuth Nitrate-catalyzed Reaction Under Solventless Conditions”, Tetrahedron Lett. (Elsevier, UK), 2009, in press.
B. K. Banik*, H. Aguilar and Daniel Cordova, “Unprecedented Stereocontrol of b-Lactam Formation Derived From N-Cinnamylidenearylamine”, Heterocycles. (Elsevier, UK), 2008, 11, 2321.
B. K. Banik, B. Lecea, A. Arrieta, A. Cozar and F. P. Cossio*, “On the Stereodivergent Behavior Observed in the Staudinger Reaction Between Methoxyketene and (E)-N-Arylbenzylidenearyl Amines”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Wiley, Germany), 2007, 46, 3028.
A. Bose, P. Sanjoto, S. Villarreal, H. Aguilar and B. K. Banik*, “Novel Nitration of Estrone by Metal Nitrate”, Tetrahedron Lett. (Elsevier), 2007, 48, 3945.
B. K. Banik* and M. Cardona, “Facile Synthesis of Pyrroles Fused with Indole Systems”, Tetrahedron Lett. (Elsevier), 2006, 47, 7385.
B. K. Banik*, I. Banik andF. F. Becker, “Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Anticancer b-Lactams via the Staudinger Reaction”, Bioorg. Med. Chem. (Elsevier), 2005, 13, 3611.
B. K. Banik*, I. Banik, M. Renteria and S. Dasgupta, “Bismuth Nitrate-Catalyzed Straightforward Synthesis of Pyrroles”, Tetrahedron Lett. (Elsevier), 2005, 46, 2643. Recognized as the most cited articles published in this journal 2005-2008.
B. K. Banik*, M. Farnandez andC. Alvarez, “Iodine-Catalyzed Michael Reaction of Indoles Under Solventless Conditions”, Tetrahedron Lett. (Elsevier), 2005, 46, 2479. Recognized as the top-50 most cited articles published in this journal 2005-2008.
B. K. Banik*, M. Chapa, J. Marquez and M. Cardona, “Iodine-Catalyzed Remarkable Protection of Carbonyl Compounds”, Tetrahedron Lett. (Elsevier), 2005, 46, 2341. One of the most requested articles out of top 25 and out of 8 millions articles in ScienceDirect website, Elsevier Publisher, England in 2005.
B. K. Banik*, S. Samajdar and I. Banik, “Simple Synthesis of Substituted Pyrroles”, J. Org. Chem. (American Chemical Society), 2004, 69, 213.
I. Banik,F. F. Becker and B. K. Banik*, “Stereoselective Synthesis of b-Lactams with Polyaromaic Imines: Entry to New and Novel Anticancer Agents”, J. Med. Chem. (American Chemical Society), 2003, 46, 12
N. Srivastava and B. K. Banik*, “Bismuth Nitrate-Catalyzed Versatile Michael Reactions”, J.Org. Chem. (American Chemical Society), 2003, 68, 2109. This paper has ranked 2 out of top 20 most cited papers published in J. Org. Chem. during 2002-2004.
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Mentoring at the Research Laboratory
Present Undergraduate and High School Students:
Robert Rodriguez, Katherine Ramos, Selina Samano, Laura Igeleias, Andrea Kall, Erica Cuate, Jerome Escano Dina Abrego, Mayra Abundis, Eric Gongalez, Anthony Rodriguez, Sonam Jaggi, Orlando Esparza, Angela Thomas, Juliana Velazques, Carlos Carames, Stephanie Maldonado, Raquel Galvez, Leishia Chee, Maria Rangel, Pascual King and Lariza Rodriguez
Present Graduate Students:
Luis Canales, Chris Gonzales and Hashim Mohamad
Present Postdoctoral Fellows:
Debasish Bandyopadhyay, Aarif Shaikh and Gildardo Rivera Sanchez
Selected Past High School, Undergraduate and Graduate Students:
David Ramirez, Dimple Patel, Felipe Resendez, Ashley Bose Sonya Rivera, Pamela Ruiz, Jonathan Lugo, Alex Medina, Isabella Garcia, Frances Morales, Isabel Salinas, Yvette Mora, Samantha Villarreal, Antara Banik, Sahil Batta, Alexando Coronado, Chhabi Chaudhury, Anjali Nambier, Darshan Patel, Michael Pugo, Susana Arguelles, Hector Aguilar, Karen Gomez, Dorothy Owens, Delia Garcia, Elayna Brooks, Jose Lerma, Daniel Cordova, Victoria Sanders, Pamela Ruiz, Pooja Palimar, Art Montes, Anupama Reddy, David Alvarez, Mahima Bazaz, Anirudh Chaudhury, Jacobed Marquez, Clarissa Alvarez, Calista Aguilar, Peni Sanjoto, Mathew Hernandez, Mitchell Ortiz, Marin Chapa, Miguel Fernandez, Mercy Renteria, Magda Cardona Mark Castillo, Nacer Aounallah, Ramon Garza, Rogelio Cuellar, Curtis Logan, Mary Wilson, Shonmei Wu, Jennie Hann, Sze Sze Ng, Michelle Suhendra, Akash Bhagat, Tai-Li Chang, Saurabh Desai, Seema Dixit, Atsushi Okawa, Ali Arslantas, Phuong Nguyen, Dorothy Adler, Edith Borges, Amanda Mower, Monica Veldez, Juan Alvarado, Bhavna Chadwa, David Clayton, Tom Pae, Paula Rodrigues, Arijit Chakraborty, Ronald Delo, Andrew Post, Julie Issaction, Dimple Shah, Madhumeeta Patel, Madhavi Yalala, Zxian Ding, Deval Patel, Eric Lin, Reza Naqvi, S. H. Park, Penial Ortega, Neelkantha Venkatraman, Sonande Shah, Patricia Sanchez, Olivia Zegrocka, Gregory Morriello, Jiansyun Zhou, Chunshi Li and Ketan Shah
Past Post Doctoral Fellows:
Danny Lau, Meenakshi S. Venkatraman, Chhanda Mukhopadhyay, Oliwia Zegrocka, Anjan Ghatak, Manas K. Basu, Susanta Samajdar, Neeta Srivastava and Swapan K. Dasgupta
Positions Obtained by the Students in National and International Level:
University Faculty; Associate Director, Principal Scientist and Senior Scientist of Pharmaceutical/Biotech Companies; Baylor College of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical University, University Medical College of New Jersey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Stanford University, UT-Galveston and UT San Antonio
Awards Obtained by the Students in National and International Level:
Several Most-Cited Publications Awards; Best Presentation Awards and Best Thesis Awards
Students as Co-authors in Publications/Presentations:
More than 175 publications/presentations have been published as students as co-authors
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Collaboration, Funding, and Service
RESEARCH COLLABORATORS:
The University of Spain, Calcutta University, Memorial University, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, University of Texas San Antonio, Kent State University and Stevens Institute of Technology
RESEARCH GRANT, SUPPORT, AWARD and CONTRACT:
Principal Investigator and Program Director of National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Private Foundations, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and UTPA (APPROXIMATELY $ 4.40 MILLION DOLLARS)
FELLOW at the INTERNATIONAL LEVEL:
Nominated and Elected Fellow of the highly prestigious and oldest scientific organization, Royal Society of Chemistry (England), 2003-present; authorized to use Title FRSC
Chartered Chemist of the Royal Society of Chemistry, authorized to use Title CChem
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER of the INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS:
- Chemistry-An Indian Journal
- Bulletin of the Catalysis Society of India
- E-Journal of Chemistry
- Heterocyclic Communications
- Scientific Journals International
- International Agricultural Journal on Citrus Fruits
- Organic Chemistry Insights
- The Open Natural Products Journal
EDITOR of the INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS and BOOKS:
· Current Medicinal Chemistry on “Anticancer Agents”, 2001
· Current Medicinal Chemistry on “Beta Lactam Antibiotics”, 2003
· Molecules on “Molecular Iodine-Catalyzed Organic Reactions”, 2009
· Springer on “Beta Lactams”, 2009
Invited by John Wiley, Linus, Francis & Taylor, Thomson, Bentham, Springer, Chemtracts, Tetrahedron, Arkivoc, Heterocycles, Frontiers in Bioscience and Open Access Journals to publish papers/book/book chapters as the Editor/Author
REVIEWER and EXAMINER at the NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL LEVEL:
- Reviewer of International grants
- Reviewer of American Chemical Society grants
- Reviewer of National Science Foundation grants, 2004-present; Panel Member of NSF grants
- Reviewer of National Institutes of Health grant
- Reviewer of UTPA faculty research grants
- Reviewer of 37 national and international journals on biomedical science, organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry and drug discovery
- Reviewer of Ph. D. Chemistry theses
MEMBER at the NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL LEVEL:
American Chemical Society, 1990-present; American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1992-2000; American Association for the Cancer Research, 1996-2004; Division of Organic Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 1991-present; Division of Medicinal Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 1996-present; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, 1997-present;Royal Society of Chemistry, 1998-2002; Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003-present; Sigma Xi Scientific Society, 1991-93; Texas Academy of Science, 2004-present; Chartered Chemist of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 1998-present
CHAIRMAN at the NATIONAL LEVEL:
American Chemical Society invited to act as the Chairman of the following sessions:
· Asymmetric Reactions and Syntheses, Washington, D. C., 2009
· Aromatic and Heterocyles, Salt Lake City, UT, 2009
· New Reactions and Methodologies, Philadelphia, PA, 2008
· New Reactions and Methodologies, New Orleans, LA, 2008
· New Reactions and Methodologies, Boston, MA, 2007
· New Reactions and Methodologies, Chicago, IL, 2007
· Metal-Mediated Reactions and Syntheses, San Francisco, CA, 2006
· Metal-Mediated Reactions and Syntheses, Atlanta, 2006
· Total Synthesis of Complex Natural Products, Washington, D. C., 2005
· New Reactions and Methodologies, San Diego, CA, 2005
· Total Synthesis of Complex Organic Molecules, Philadelphia, PA, 2004
· Asymmetric Reactions and Syntheses, Boston, MA, 2002
CHAIRMAN at the INTERNATIONAL LEVEL:
Chaired a session in Germany (Antineoplastic Agents: New Strategies and New Compounds) at the 2nd World Conference on Magic Bullets celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize Award to Dr. Paul Ehrlich, 2008.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR and PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
· Program Director and Principal Investigator of NIH/NCI P20 grant
· Program Director and Principal Investigator of NIH-MBRS-SCORE
ADVISOR:
Advisor of a chemistry Honors society at the university of Texas Pan American, 2008-present
CHAIRMAN at the UNIVERSITY LEVEL:
· Selected and acted as the Chairman of the Faculty Research Council of the University of Texas Pan American, 2005-2008
· Co-Chairman of the drug-discovery symposium (cancer center therapeutics developmental program) of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 2000-2001
· Invited and acted as the Co-Chairman of the chemistry club meeting of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 2000-2001
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Honors, Awards, and Recognition
Received a number of national, international, state, city and university awards/honors. A few selected honors are given below:
NATIONAL and INTERNATONAL LEVEL:
· Received Invitation to serve as a Graduate Faculty of the University of Texas at San Antonio
· Nominated and selected for the Prestigious University of Texas Board of Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award through an Open Competition, 2009
· Nominated and selected as one of the Finalists for the Minnie Stevens Piper Award (utpa) in Teaching, 2008, 2007 and 2006
· Designated as the most productive Ph. D. associate in research and teaching out of 100 Ph. D. scientists by the Mentor in his professional career of more than 50 years (documented in several letters by the Mentor in 2004-2006)
· Served as a Mentor of several students in the following programs at the University of Texas Pan American: NIH-SCORE grant, NIH/NCI-P20 grant, NCI-Supplement grant, ACS-SEED grant, Robert Welch grant, Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant, Louis Stokes Minority Program (NSF) grant, Hispanic Heritage (NIH) grant, chemistry thesis, chemistry problem and general courses; served as a Mentor for summer science project designed for high school students (universities conducting science in the valley for the valley project, a joint project between UTPA and UTB); research projects became most popular among students as evidenced through total number of applications; received certificate for dedicated mentorship by the university of Texas, Brownsville, 2006-2009
· Recognized as the most popular mentor in the whole institution, 1990-1994 (Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey);chosen as an outstanding educator by the students, 1990-1994; served as a mentor of high school and college students sponsored by American Chemical Society, New York Cardiac Center, HHMI, New York and New Jersey Board of education at Stevens Institute of Technology, 1990-1994; considered one of the very best mentors out of the 300 Ph. D. and M. D. level mentors over the last 18 years by the Director (American Chemical Society, New Jersey Division) of the student program in written statements, 2006 and 2007
· Awarded two certificates for excellent mentorship for teaching economically disadvantaged students, Union City, New Jersey Board of Education, 1993-1994; New Jersey Senator Bob Menandez has awarded citation for teaching excellence
· Served as the mentor of several undergraduate and master students sponsored by the King Foundation, Golden Family and Stringer Fund at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1995-2003
· Recognized as an excellent classroom teacher (in a scale of excellent, good, average and poor) by more than 130 the University of Texas Pan American students in written statements, 76 reports by unidentified students of the University of Texas Pan American as documented at the “Rate My Professors” website and more than 400 comments by the classroom students’evaluation, 2004-2009
· Received excellent/good evaluation (on an average 86% excellent and 14% good in 25 courses) in classroom teaching by the students at the University of Texas Pan American, 2004-2009
· Received Invitation to deliver lecture and chair a session at the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize Celebration in Germany
· Received invitations to deliver 37 lectures in conferences in US, Europe and Asia
· Served as a Judge of the student research presentations at the at the International Meeting at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
· Received Invitation as a Guest by the President of the UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center to celebrate Dr. Becker’s lifetime contribution at the UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
· Received Travel Award to serve as a Judge of the presentations at the biomedical research conference sponsored by NIH in Florida
· Selected as a Consultant for a Drug Company in Spain
· Five papers recognized as the Most Cited articles published in Tetrahedron Letters (Elsevier journal)
· Received Invitation for a reception by the American Chemical Society for helping the society to increase Student Membership, 2008; recruited highest number of members to the American Chemical Society
· Awarded Prestigious First President’s Endowed Professorship at the UTPA in its 81st year of history through an open competition
· Interviewed by Science Journal Reporter to evaluate suitability of research for special recognition at the American Chemical Society National Meeting, Chicago, March, 2007; This interview was published in SCIENCE
· Invited to serve as a Publication Committee Member, International Symposium on Human Health Effects of Fruits and Vegetables conducted by Texas A & M University
· Designated by the Director of the educational program at the New Jersey section as one of the best Mentors out of 300 national and international Ph. D. and M. D. Mentors for the last 18 years
· More than 120 media exposures based on research accomplishments: TV, Netscape, Google, Internet Explorer, Lycos, Local Newspaper
· SciFinder Citations: Approximately 2900
· Chemical & Engineering News (C & E News, highest circulating and prestigious scientific magazine in the world), American Chemical Society highlighted research based on presentations at the San Diego National Meeting, March, 2001 and 2003; Chemical & Engineering News selected and highlighted 5 presentations from more than 20,000 presentations in 2001 and 2003; This scientific magazine described these presentations as novel and innovative
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