Dr Md Nazmul Islam is a Lecturer in Biochemistry at the School of Health & Life Sciences. Prior to starting his academic career at Teesside, Nazmul was a Postdoctoral research associate in the O’Hare and Ladame research groups, Dept. of Bioengineering, Imperial College London between 2018 and 2020. At Imperial, Nazmul worked on a cancer research UK grant to develop screening tools for prostate cancer based on electrochemical detection of miRNA biomarkers. Previously, he completed his PhD on analytical biochemistry in the Shiddiky Laboratory at Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Australia. His research interest lies in the development of biosensor- based novel diagnostic technologies for detecting clinically relevant disease biomarkers. 

As an early career academic, Dr Islam has an exceptional track record with a total of 25 articles published in leading scientific journals including Small, Nanoscale, Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Communications, Lab on a Chip,  Biosensors and Bioelectronics, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Small Methods, etc. These articles have been cited more than 975 times leading to an H-index of 19.

Nazmul's research publications can be found on google scholar.

There is currently no funded PhD position available, however, if you’re interested in applying for an internal or external scholarship (e.g, commonwealth scholarship) and you are looking for a host, please contact Nazmul via email.

Nazmul is currently lecturing different modules in the school including Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Biochemistry and Diagnostic Techniques, Science Research Methods and Proposal,  Organic Chemistry (Lab), Inorganic & Physical Chemistry (Lab), and  Integrated Lab. 

• Member of Royal Society of Chemistry, MRSC
• Member of American Association for cancer research, AACR
• Member of the Electrochemical Society (ECS)
• Member of Cancer Epigenetics Society