He received his doctorate in Microbiology from Aligarh Muslim University, India and has extensive experience of more than 12 years in microbiology, phytochemistry and cancer prevention. Dr. Aqil’s research focus is on the identification of phytocompounds against drug-resistant bacteria, biofilm formation. He also focuses on cancer chemoprevention and treatment primarily of breast, lung and ovarian cancers using both standard chemotherapeutic drugs and agents of natural origin like spices, berries and berry bioactives. In the last few years his focus has been on anticancer properties of phytocompounds, and to evaluate the effectiveness of berry bioactive and with a ferin against lung and ovarian cancer in cell culture and animal models as well as identify potential molecular targets.