Prof. Sartaj Tabassum is working as a Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He was awarded Senior Research Fellowship (1988), Research Associateship (1991) by CSIR New Delhi. He was appointed as a lecturer in the department of chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, in 1993. He has published 147 papers,  in the journals of international repute and has 3367 citations and an h-index is 31 . He has presented his research work and delivered invited lectures in conferences/symposia. He is a life member of ICC, CRSI, ISCB, DNA Society of India, and American Nano Society. He has successfully guided 17 Ph.D. and 4 M.Phil students. He has successfully completed many research projects granted by TWAS, Italy, CSIR, New Delhi, DBT, Govt. of India. As a distinguished Scientist, Prof. Tabassum was awarded the Overseas Associateship award in 2005 by DBT, Govt of India. He has signed several MoU and joint research collaborations with the University of Camerino UNICAM, Italy, USM Malaysia, and USTC Hefei, China. He has visited many countries for academic pursuit particularly, China, the USA, Italy, and King Saud University Riyad Saudi Arabia as a fellow, visiting professors and for international conferences. Prof. Tabassum is working in the area of medicinal inorganic chemistry and his main focus is the design and synthesis of heterobimetallic complexes that have the potential to act as cancer chemotherapeutics. Three patents have been granted Indian ( 01) and US ( 02) in which he has claimed that the new drug will be very effective with minimal side effects and it will be available at a very low cost.