He has completed his Ph.D. from the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University, Japan. He is carrying out the research to explore the novel and indigenous phytomedicinal and functional food sources as alternative therapeutics to deliver to the cellular target. He published one-hundred ten articles in peer reviewed and high-impact journals. Two Ph.D., Two M. Phil, and more than sixty MS students have so far been awarded their degrees under his supervision. Dr. Rahman is serving as vice president of the National Young Academy Bangladesh (NYAB), Joint secretary of Bangladesh Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BSBMB), Treasurer of Bangladesh Biosafety and Biosecurity Society (BBBS), ExCo member of the Global Network of Bangladeshi Biotechnologists (GNOBB), ExCO member of Federation of Asian Biotechnology Associations (FABABA) and Board member of Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB). He is also working as an editorial board member of quite a good number of journals, and he presented his works in around twenty countries over the globe. He has been awarded BAS-AASSA young Scientists Award 2018, Biosafety Award 2017, Joint Travel Award by Malaysian Academy of Science and US National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (2017) MEXT scholarship 2003, NRF Fellowship, South Africa. His research Interest: Functional and Medicinal foods, Bioactive Natural Products, Complementary and Alternative medicine for chronic diseases, and Phytopharmacology

Selected Publications

1. S. M. Ali Reza, Mst. Samima Nasrin, Md. Amjad Hossen, Md. Atiar Rahman, Ibrahim Jantan, Md. Areeful Haque and Eduardo Sobarzo-Sánchez. Mechanistic insight into immunomodulatory effects of food-functioned plant secondary metabolites. Critical reviews in Food science and nutrition. Taylor and Francis; https://doi.org/10.1080/10408398.2021.2021138
2. M. Abu Ahmed, Md. Atiar Rahman*, Md. Amjad Hossen, A.S.M. Ali Reza, Md. Shahidul Islam, Md. Mamunur Rashid, Md. Khalid Juhani Rafi, Md. Tanvir Ahmed Siddiqui, Abdullah Al-Noman, Md. Nazim Uddin. Epiphytic Acampe ochracea orchid relieves paracetamol-induced hepatotoxicity by inhibiting oxidative stress and upregulating antioxidant genes in in vivo and virtual screening, Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, Volume 143, 2021, 112215.  
3. Hashi Akter, Md. Mamunur Rashid, Md. Shahidul Islam, Md. Amjad Hossen,
   Atiar Rahman, Reham M. Algheshairy, Mona S. Almujaydil, Hend F. Alharbi, Afnan M. Alnajeebi, Biometabolites of Tamarindus indica play a remarkable cardioprotective role as a functional food in doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity models. Journal of Functional Foods 96 (2022) 105212.
4. Amjad Hossen, A. S. M. Ali Reza1, A M Abu Ahmed, Md. Kamrul Islam, Israt Jahan, Rahni Hossain, Mohammad Forhad khan, Mohammad Rifat Alam Maruf, Md. Areeful Haque, Md. Atiar Rahman*. Pretreatment of Blumea lacera leaves ameliorate acute ulcer and oxidative stress in ethanol-induced Long-evan rat: a combined experimental and chemico-biological interaction. Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy. 2021, 135 (2021) 111211.

Md. Shaekh Forid, Md. Atiar Rahman2* , Mohd Fadhlizil Fasihi Mohd Aluwi, Md. Nazim Uddin,Tapashi Ghosh Roy, Milon Chandra Mohanta, AKM Moyeenul Huq, and Zainul Amiruddin Zakaria. Pharmacoinformatics and UPLC-QTOF/ESI-MS-Based.  Phytochemical Screening of Combretum indicum against Oxidative
Stress and Alloxan-Induced Diabetes in Long–Evans Rats. Molecules 2021, 26, 4634.