Dr. Shagufta Perveen, a Pakistani national, Natural Product Chemist/Scientist by profession, born in a religious, modern, well-educated and patriotic family. Her father, Muhammad Kamran Khan is Deputy Manager (R) from civil engineering department of Pakistan Steels Mills Corporation and mother Razia Khanum is a housewife. Since Pakistan came into being, most of her family members were serving Government of Pakistan in different departments such as Pakistan Railway, Accountant General Office, Education, Police, etc.
Dr. Shagufta obtained her early education from her home town Shah Faisal Colony, Karachi and later moved to University of Karachi and graduated in Organic Chemistry with 1st division. After graduation, she got scholarship from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and joined one of the finest institutes of Pakistan, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry and Dr Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research), University of Karachi for higher studies in Chemistry and Biology. The ICCBS was governed by world’s well-known scientists including Professor Dr Atta-ur-Rahman a UNESCO, Science Laureate (F.R.S., N.I., H.I., S.I., T.I.) as Patron-in-Chief and his mentee Prof. Dr Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary (H.I., S.I., T.I.) as Director. Dr Shagufta started her PhD in 2003 under supervision of Prof Dr Abdul Malik (R) (S.I.), who was a senior faculty member of ICCBS and also performed duties of acting director in the absence of Director. Dr Shagufta completed Part A of her thesis topic “Phytochemical Investigation on the Chemical Constituents of Perovskia Atriplicifolia” from ICCBS (HEJ), University of Karachi, Pakistan.
At the end of 2006, she got another short-term scholarship and joined Prof. Dr Jeremy D Kilburn (Head of School of Chemistry) at University of Southampton, GB, where she completed Part B of her thesis topic “The Synthesis of Super-molecules”.
