Atta-ur-Rahman, Professor Emeritus, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry and Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research), University of Karachi, Pakistan, was the Pakistan Federal Minister for Science and Technology (2000-2002), Federal Minister of Education (2002), and Chairman of the Higher Education Commission with the status of a Federal Minister from 2002-2008. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS) and an UNESCO Science Laureate. He is a leading scientist with more than 1283 publications in several fields of organic chemistry.

• Recent advances in the synthesis of dendrobatid alkaloids; synthesis of some aspidosperma and related alkaloids; synthesis of natural products via aliphatic nitroderivatives; steroespecific cann synthesis - the application of new techniques to a classical problem; methods for construction of si of brassinosteroids; totla synthesis of quinocarcin and its related compounds; synthesis of mannosta and cyclophellitols, new cyclitol inhibitors for glycoside metabolism of glyvoproteins and glycolipi molecular rearrangements in the derivatives of grnadiflorenic acid [(-)-kaura-9(11), 16-diene-19-oic and some related diterpenes; total syntheses of cyclic halo ether componds from marine origin; oxida ring transformation of 2-furylcarbinols in natural product syntheses; stereoselective synthesis of C branded nucleoside analogues; bioactive marine macrolides; hormones in the red swamp crayfish; the structure and antigenicity of novel polysaccharides from microorganisms and plants; the dereplicatio plant-derived natural products; siderophones from fluorescent pseudomonas.