Editorial Advisory Boards
Molecules, Editorial Board, 2020-Present
AIMS Biophysics, Editorial Board, 2018-Present
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Editorial Board, 2017-Present
Perspectives in Medicinal Chemistry, Honorary Editorial Board, 2006-2019
NIH Grant Review
NIH Review: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Special Emphasis Panel ZAI1 CAB-M (J1) Centers of Excellence for Translational Research (Oct 2024)
NIH ZRG1 BCMB-G (10) B Drug Discovery & Development SBIR/STTR Review Panel (Jun 2022)
NIH ZRG1 BCMB-G (02) Member Conflict: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Macromolecular Biophysics (Virtual Meeting) (Jun 2021)
Program Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes: The Role of Anonymization (Apr-Jul 2018)
NIH ZRG1 BCMB-G (10) B Drug Discovery & Development SBIR/STTR Review Panel (Mar 2017)
NIH MSFD (Macromolecular Structure and Function D) Study Section (Feb 2016)
NIH Small Business: Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Drug Discovery SBIR/STTR study section ZRG1 IMST-G (10) B (Jun 2015)
NIH Small Business: Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Drug Discovery SBIR/STTR study section ZRG1 IMST-G (10) B (Nov 2014)
NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2012/01 ZCA1 SRLB-V (J1) R meeting (Nov 2011)
DoD Grant Review
Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Pre-Application peer review panel of the 2020 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) (May 2020)
Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) peer review panel of the 2018 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) (Nov 2018)
Department of Defense Medical Research and Material Command (MRMC) Medical Infectious Diseases Research Program (MIDRP) (Jan 2018)
Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Pre-Application peer review panel of the 2017 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) for Investigator Initiated Research Awards (IIRA) and Technology/Therapeutic Development Awards (TTDA) (Jul-Aug 2017)
Other Grant Review
National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FONDECYT), Chile (2022)
Wellcome Trust / DBT India Alliance (partnership between The Wellcome Trust, UK, and the Government of India) Early Career Fellowship Application (Mar 2018)
AACP NIP (New Investigator Program) Review (Sep 2015)
Ad-hoc Reviewer for ACS Petroleum Research Fund (2013-2014; 2014-2015)
External reviewer for Louisiana Board of Regents’ Pilot Funding for New Research (Pfund) program (12/2011)
Ad-hoc Reviewer for National Science Foundation (2010)
External reviewer for City University of New York Research Award (2009)
Discovery Grant Application Referee for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant (2005)
Peer Review of Publications
Journal Article Referee for 73 journals, including: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Nature Communications, Nature Protocols, Chemical Reviews, Protein Journal, Communications Biology, Cancer, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Organic Letters, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Marine Drugs, Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, Journal of Computational Chemistry, Accounts of Chemical Research, Current Pharmaceutical Design, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, ACS Food Science & Technology, Foods, Journal of Functional Foods, Food Microbiology, Life Sciences, ACS Omega, Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, Biochemistry, Biochemical Pharmacology, Journal of Molecular Biology, Journal of Chemical Information & Modeling, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Pharmacological Research, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Journal of Natural Products, Natural Product Research, Chemical Physics Letters, Molecules, Structural Chemistry, Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, Journal of Molecular Structure, Letters in Drug Design, Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Journal of Enzyme Inhibition & Medicinal Chemistry, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, Journal of Computational Chemistry, Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Drug Discovery Today, SAR QSAR Environmental Research, Medicinal Chemistry Research, Perspectives in Medicinal Chemistry, Future Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Research, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Journal of Saudi Chemical Society, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Biologia, PLOS Computational Biology, Computational Biology and Chemistry, Molecular Informatics, Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modeling, Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Kuwait Journal of Science, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Scientific Reports, Tetrahedron, Organometallics, Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, Journal of Molecular Modeling, Toxicology Letters (>230 manuscripts reviewed, >600 review opportunities declined, 2006-Present)
Other Review
Guest Editor, “30th Anniversary of Molecules—Recent Advances in Medicinal Chemistry” Molecules, submission deadline Jul 2026
Book Proposal review, Elsevier (9/2024)
External PhD dissertation review, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) (9/2024)
Topic Co-Editor: “Proceedings of the 2023 MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) Conference”: Frontiers in Bioinformatics (2024)
Topic Co-Editor: “In Silico Approaches: Advancing Safety Prediction of Chemicals and Drugs” Frontiers in Pharmacology (2024)
Guest Editor, “Featured Papers in Medicinal Chemistry II” Molecules, submission deadline Jul 2024
Included 13 articles
Guest Editor, “New Insights into Biomolecular Structures and Interactions” Molecules, submission deadline Dec 2023
Guest Editor, “Featured Papers in Medicinal Chemistry” Molecules, submission deadline Jul 2022
Included 25 papers
Mississippi State University, Professor Promotion Review (2022)
Ohio State University, Professor Promotion Review (2022)
University of Jordan, Professor Promotion Review (2021)
Mississippi State University, Professor Promotion Review (2021)
PhD Thesis Evaluation, Periyar University, Salem, India (2021)
Guest Editor, “Allosteric Modulator” Molecules, submission deadline Jan 2020
Guest Associate Editor, Proceedings of MCBIOS 2018, BMC Bioinformatics (2018)
Member of two Master’s and three PhD Thesis examining committees for students for National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Department of Food Science (Jun 2017)
AACP 2017 National Meeting Poster Peer Review (Biological Sciences Section) (Mar 2017)
External (foreign) examiner for PhD Dissertation from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER), Nagar, Punjab, India by S. Abbat entitled ‘Pharmacoinformatics Analysis of PfDHFR Substrate and Inhibitors’ (2016-2017)
Member of several Master’s Thesis examining committees for MS students of National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (Neipu, Taiwan), Department of Food Science and Department of Biological Science and Technology (Jun 2014)
External (foreign) examiner for a PhD Dissertation in Pharmacy from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (Ranchi, India) (2013)
Reviewed a medicinal chemistry textbook proposal for John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010
External (foreign) examiner for a PhD Dissertation in Pharmacy from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (Ranchi, India) by J. Venkatesan entitled 'Design, synthesis and pharmacological screening of mycobactin analogues' (2010)
External (foreign) examiner for PhD Dissertation from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER) (Nagar, Punjab, India) (2008)
External (foreign) examiner for a PhD Dissertation in Pharmacy from Birla Institute of Technology (Ranchi, India) for S. Vadivalen entitled 'Computer-aided design, synthesis and receptor binding studies for the discovery of potential PPAR ligands' (2008)