{"id":376,"date":"2021-08-05T07:17:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T07:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.250.7.211\/?page_id=376"},"modified":"2025-06-03T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:47:10","slug":"head","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mgbio.asab.nust.edu.pk\/index.php\/head\/","title":{"rendered":"Head"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"376\" class=\"elementor elementor-376\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3534eb18 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3534eb18\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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class=\"hover-area\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_1853452_376\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAmjad Ali, PhD\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\">Principal Investigator<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"ekit-team-social-list\">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-repeater-item-0d01214\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/amjad.ali.31586\" aria-label=\"Facebook\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"icon icon-facebook\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-repeater-item-4e38d3f\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/amjad-ali-phd-b08466122\" aria-label=\"LinkedIn\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"icon icon-linkedin\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-repeater-item-c28fe4a\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0486-4661\" aria-label=\"ORCID\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fab fa-orcid\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-1853452\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_1853452_376\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-times\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"757\" src=\"https:\/\/mgbio.asab.nust.edu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/web-768x757.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-3573\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Amjad Ali, PhD<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\">Principal Investigator<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Specializations (Key Words)<\/strong><br>\nMicrobial- Genomics &amp; Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Systems Biology, Infection Biology, Vaccines Design &amp; \nDevelopment, AI\/ML Predictive Models, Antimicrobial Resistance, Microbial Pangenome &amp; Reverse Vaccinology, Alternative Therapeutics, Antimicrobial Peptides. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"ekit-team-modal-list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><strong>Phone:<\/strong><a href=\"tel:+92 333 9191903\">+92 333 9191903<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><strong>Email:<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:amjad.ali@asab.nust.edu.pk\">amjad.ali@asab.nust.edu.pk<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"ekit-team-social-list\">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-repeater-item-0d01214\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/amjad.ali.31586\" aria-label=\"Facebook\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"icon icon-facebook\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-repeater-item-4e38d3f\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/amjad-ali-phd-b08466122\" aria-label=\"LinkedIn\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"icon 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class=\"elementskit-card-header\" id=\"primaryHeading-0-46df3dc\">\n                        <a href=\"#collapse-0c1852b6a0c722aa9896\" class=\"ekit-accordion--toggler elementskit-btn-link collapsed\" data-ekit-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#Collapse-0c1852b6a0c722aa9896\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"Collapse-0c1852b6a0c722aa9896\">\n                            \n                            <span class=\"ekit-accordion-title\">Professional &amp; Academic Background<\/span>\n\n                            \n                                <div class=\"ekit_accordion_icon_group\">\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_normal_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Normal Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-down-arrow1\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_active_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Active Icon 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National Science &amp; Technology Park (NSTP), Islamabad<\/p><p>09\/23 \u2013 06\/24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Consultant (Professor)<\/strong> Health Services Academy (HSA), Ministry of Health Services Regulations and Coordination, Islamabad<\/p><p>08\/19 \u2013 07\/24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Associate Professor <\/strong>(Tenured) Department of Microbiology &amp; Biotechnology National University of Sciences &amp; Technology, Islamabad<\/p><p>06\/22 \u2013 10\/23\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Head of Department<\/strong> Industrial Biotechnology, Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences &amp; Technology<\/p><p>12\/18 \u2013 03\/19\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Head of Department<\/strong> (Research) (Acting Charge) Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences &amp; Technology<\/p><p>08\/13 \u2013 08\/19\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Assistant Professor (TTS) <\/strong>National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Atta-ur- Rahman School of Applied Biosciences (ASAB), Islamabad<\/p><p>09\/19 \u2013 11\/19\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Visiting Scientist<\/strong> Big Data Centre (BIG), Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China<\/p><p>06\/10 \u2013 03\/13\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>TWAS-CNPq<\/strong> <strong>Ph.D. Research Fellow <\/strong>Department of General Biology<strong>, <\/strong>Federal University of Minas Gerais UFMS), Belo Horizonte, Brazil<\/p><p>08\/11 \u2013 12\/11\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Visiting Research Fellow <\/strong>Centre for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark<\/p><p>06\/07 \u2013 08\/09\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Senior<\/strong> <strong>Research Associate<\/strong> National Institute for Biotechnology &amp; Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad<\/p><p>09\/06 \u2013 08\/08\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Master of Philosophy <\/strong>(Biotechnology) Department of Biotechnology, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad<\/p><p>12\/01 \u2013 03\/05 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Bachelor of Science <\/strong>(Biotechnology), Department of Biotechnology, University of Malakand, Chakdara<\/p>                        <\/div>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                <\/div><!-- .elementskit-card END -->\n\n                \n                <div class=\"elementskit-card \">\n                    <div class=\"elementskit-card-header\" id=\"primaryHeading-1-46df3dc\">\n            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Sciences (PAS)<\/p><p>2022:<strong> Best Innovator Award <\/strong>(for the year 2021) Institutional Award, National University of Sciences &amp; Technology<\/p><p>2019:<strong> Rector\u2019s Gold Medals <\/strong>BEST FINAL YEAR RESEARCH PROJECTS (BS in Applied Biosciences students Groups)<\/p><p>2018: <strong>Research Productivity Awards<\/strong> in \u201cBiological Sciences \u201cby Pakistan Council for Science &amp; Technology (PCST)<\/p><p>2018: <strong>Productive Scientist of Pakistan<\/strong> in \u201cBiological Sciences\u201d by Pakistan Council for Science &amp; Technology (PCST)<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2018:<strong> Performance-Based Incentives<\/strong> in Tenure Track System Awarded for the years 2017-2018-2022, HR, NUST<\/p><p>2017: <strong>48th Young Productive Scientist<\/strong> of Pakistan under 40 by Pakistan Council for Science &amp; Technology (PCST)<\/p><p>2017: <strong>Best Researcher Award<\/strong> (for years 2016\/17) Institutional Award, National University of Sciences &amp; Technology<\/p><p>2016: <strong>Best Research Paper Award<\/strong> (for the years 2013\/14) Awarded by Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan<\/p><p>2011: <strong>European Molecular Biology Fellowship<\/strong> <strong>(EMBL)<\/strong> for collaborative research at Technical University, Denmark<\/p><p>2010: <strong>TWAS-CNPq Fellowship:<\/strong> Funded PhD Fellowship Award for doctoral studies in UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil<\/p>                        <\/div>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                <\/div><!-- .elementskit-card END -->\n\n                \n                <div class=\"elementskit-card \">\n                    <div class=\"elementskit-card-header\" id=\"primaryHeading-2-46df3dc\">\n                        <a href=\"#collapse-3208f646a0c722aa9896\" class=\"ekit-accordion--toggler elementskit-btn-link collapsed\" data-ekit-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#Collapse-3208f646a0c722aa9896\" aria-expanded=\"false\" 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class=\" collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"primaryHeading-2-46df3dc\" data-parent=\"#accordion-6a0c722aa9896\">\n\n                        <div class=\"elementskit-card-body ekit-accordion--content\">\n                            <table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>PhD Thesis Supervised:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;text-align: right\">05<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>PhD Co-supervised:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;text-align: right\">04<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>MS students Supervised:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;text-align: right\">28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>UG FYP Supervised:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;text-align: right\">10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px\"><strong>Student Committees:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px;text-align: right\">10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\">#<\/th>\n<th style=\"background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\">Student Name<\/th>\n<th style=\"background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\">Year of Graduation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\" style=\"background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\"><strong>MS Students Supervised (Primary)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Aneeqa Arshad<\/td>\n<td>2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Shifa Tariq Ashraf<\/td>\n<td>2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Fatima Shahid<\/td>\n<td>2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Hira Sikandar<\/td>\n<td>2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Tanzeela Raza<\/td>\n<td>2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>M. Hamza Dar<\/td>\n<td>2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Muhammad Shehroz<\/td>\n<td>2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>Tahreem Zaheer<\/td>\n<td>2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>Maaz Waseem<\/td>\n<td>2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>Zaara Ishaq<\/td>\n<td>2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>Hayqa Shahwar<\/td>\n<td>2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>Amina Basheer<\/td>\n<td>2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>Kainat Khalil<\/td>\n<td>2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>Samavi Nasir<\/td>\n<td>2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>Shaheera Amjad<\/td>\n<td>2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18<\/td>\n<td>Summaya Umair<\/td>\n<td>2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<td>Mahnoor Masood<\/td>\n<td>2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<td>Shah Fawad<\/td>\n<td>2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>21<\/td>\n<td>Fizza Faiz<\/td>\n<td>2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<td>Uzair Haider<\/td>\n<td>2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>23<\/td>\n<td>Anoosh Bano<\/td>\n<td>2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>24<\/td>\n<td>Rida Fatima<\/td>\n<td>2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>25<\/td>\n<td>Maryam Zahra<\/td>\n<td>2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>26<\/td>\n<td>Hafiza Tooba Tahir<\/td>\n<td>2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>27<\/td>\n<td>Saifullah Khan<\/td>\n<td>2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>28<\/td>\n<td>Zulqarnain Haider<\/td>\n<td>2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>31<\/td>\n<td>Kinza Manzoor<\/td>\n<td>Ongoing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>32<\/td>\n<td>Ayesha Abbas<\/td>\n<td>Ongoing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>33<\/td>\n<td>Aiman Siddique<\/td>\n<td>Ongoing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\" style=\"background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\"><strong>UG FYP Supervised<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\">06 (12x Students) - Undergraduate FYP supervised <br> 2 GOLD Medals on best projects<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\" style=\"background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\"><strong>MS Students (Co-Supervised \/ Graduated)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Maryam Rashid (ASAB)<\/td>\n<td>2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Absar Mazhar (ASAB)<\/td>\n<td>2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>M. Waqas (SMME)<\/td>\n<td>2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Hafsa Manzoor (ASAB)<\/td>\n<td>2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>                        <\/div>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                <\/div><!-- .elementskit-card END -->\n\n                \n                <div class=\"elementskit-card \">\n                    <div class=\"elementskit-card-header\" id=\"primaryHeading-3-46df3dc\">\n                        <a href=\"#collapse-277fda86a0c722aa9896\" class=\"ekit-accordion--toggler elementskit-btn-link collapsed\" data-ekit-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#Collapse-277fda86a0c722aa9896\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"Collapse-277fda86a0c722aa9896\">\n                            \n                            <span class=\"ekit-accordion-title\">Publications &amp; Citations<\/span>\n\n                            \n                                <div class=\"ekit_accordion_icon_group\">\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_normal_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Normal Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-down-arrow1\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_active_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Active Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-up-arrow\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n\n                            \n                                                    <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div id=\"Collapse-277fda86a0c722aa9896\" class=\" collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"primaryHeading-3-46df3dc\" data-parent=\"#accordion-6a0c722aa9896\">\n\n                        <div class=\"elementskit-card-body ekit-accordion--content\">\n                            <table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Journal Publications:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>132<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Conference Papers:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>07<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Book Chapters:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>IPs (Copyrights\/Patents):<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>02<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>H-Index:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Citations:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4650<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>                        <\/div>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                <\/div><!-- .elementskit-card END -->\n\n                \n                <div class=\"elementskit-card \">\n                    <div class=\"elementskit-card-header\" id=\"primaryHeading-4-46df3dc\">\n                        <a href=\"#collapse-6e278306a0c722aa9896\" class=\"ekit-accordion--toggler elementskit-btn-link collapsed\" data-ekit-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#Collapse-6e278306a0c722aa9896\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"Collapse-6e278306a0c722aa9896\">\n                            \n                            <span class=\"ekit-accordion-title\">Academic and Professional Contributions<\/span>\n\n                            \n                                <div class=\"ekit_accordion_icon_group\">\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_normal_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Normal Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-down-arrow1\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_active_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Active Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-up-arrow\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n\n                            \n                                                    <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div id=\"Collapse-6e278306a0c722aa9896\" class=\" collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"primaryHeading-4-46df3dc\" data-parent=\"#accordion-6a0c722aa9896\">\n\n                        <div class=\"elementskit-card-body ekit-accordion--content\">\n                            <div style=\"max-width: 800px;margin: 0 auto\"><p><!-- Leadership Section --><\/p><div style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\"><div style=\"flex: 1;font-weight: bold;padding-right: 20px\">Leadership and Administrative Roles:<\/div><div style=\"flex: 2\"><div>\u2022 Head, Department of Industrial Biotechnology (2022-2023)<\/div><div>\u2022 Head, Integrative Biology Laboratory (iB)<\/div><div>\u2022 Head, Institutional Committee for Internationalization (IFPI)<\/div><div>\u2022 Head, Microbial Genomics &amp; Bioinformatics (MGB) Group<\/div><div>\u2022 Ex-Deputy Director Examination (Acting Charge) (ASAB\/School)<\/div><div>\u2022 Member NUST Strategic Steering Committee (SSC)<\/div><div>\u2022 Member of Departmental Technical Review Committee (DTRC)<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Institutional Curriculum Review Committee (ICRC)<\/div><div>\u2022 Member of University\/ Institutional Review Board (IRB)<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Institutional Research Evaluation Committee<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Committees on Student Grievances \/ Discipline<\/div><div>\u2022 Focal Person China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC-Cell)<\/div><div>\u2022 Organizing Chair: IC-WEES NUST Flagship Conference<\/div><\/div><\/div><p><!-- Advisory Section --><\/p><div style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\"><div style=\"flex: 1;font-weight: bold;padding-right: 20px\">Advisory &amp; Board Memberships:<\/div><div style=\"flex: 2\"><div>\u2022 Directorate of Science &amp; Tech KP Government TEC Member \"Science Agenda\"<\/div><div>\u2022 Policy Dialogue (Member Biotech TF) on Science, Technology, &amp; Engineering for Development (STED) 2025 Ministry of Planning, Dev. &amp; Special Initiative<\/div><div>\u2022 Advisory Committee for STEM Education Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF)<\/div><div>\u2022 Pakistan Science Foundation National Technology Innovation Fund (NTIF)<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Higher Education Commission Accreditation &amp; Inspection Team<\/div><div>\u2022 HEC National Curriculum Review Committee (NCRC) on Biotechnology<\/div><div>\u2022 Member HEC Technology Development Fund Review Committee<\/div><div>\u2022 Ministry of Science &amp; Technology (MoST) Review Committee for Technical and Economic Feasibility of New Universities \/ Campuses.<\/div><div>\u2022 Peer Reviewer: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF); Grants &amp; Fellowships<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Maroof International Hospital Institutional Review Board.<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Selection Board Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Pesh.<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Board of Studies (BoS): QAU, SBBWU, IUBWP, KUM, RWU, BZU.<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Departmental Technical Review Committees: ASAB, SINES, NUMS.<\/div><div>\u2022 Mentor for Global Health Hackathon 2025: Organized by Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab \"Building High Value Health Systems through AI\"<\/div><\/div><\/div><p><!-- International Memberships Section --><\/p><div style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\"><div style=\"flex: 1;font-weight: bold;padding-right: 20px\">International Scientific Memberships:<\/div><div style=\"flex: 2\"><div>\u2022 Global Biodiversity and Health Big Data (BHBD) Alliance Fellow Member<\/div><div>\u2022 American Society of Microbiology ASM - Global Outreach Membership<\/div><div>\u2022 BactiVac Network UK: Accelerating Bacterial Vaccines around the world<\/div><div>\u2022 The International Society of Global Health (ISoGH)<\/div><div>\u2022 European Society of Clinical Microbiology &amp; Infectious Diseases (2016)<\/div><div>\u2022 Bioinformactics.org (Canada)<\/div><div>\u2022 The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)<\/div><div>\u2022 National Academy of Young Scientists Pakistan (NYAS)<\/div><div>\u2022 Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB) - Pakistan Chapter<\/div><\/div><\/div><p><!-- Editorial Section --><\/p><div style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\"><div style=\"flex: 1;font-weight: bold;padding-right: 20px\">Editorial &amp; Peer-Review Contributions:<\/div><div style=\"flex: 2\"><div>\u2022 Review Editor: Frontiers in Microbiology (Medicine, Public Health)<\/div><div>\u2022 Editor: Current Proteomics<\/div><div>\u2022 Associate Editor: NUST Journal of Natural Science (NJNS)<\/div><div>\u2022 Editorial Advisory Board, Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences<\/div><div>\u2022 Reviewing for: Gene, PlosOne, Scientific Reports, Genomics (Elsevier), BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Microbiology, BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, Computers in Biology, Infection Genetics and Evolution, Genomics Proteomics &amp; Bioinformatics, Computers in Biology. etc.<\/div><\/div><\/div><p><!-- Programs Section --><\/p><div><div style=\"flex: 1;font-weight: bold;padding-right: 20px\">Programs &amp; Curriculum Development:<\/div><div style=\"flex: 2\"><div>\u2022 BS Biotechnology and BS Food Science &amp; Technology (FST)<\/div><div>\u2022 MS Industrial Biotechnology: (Applied Microbiology\/ Systems &amp; Synthetic Biology)<\/div><div>\u2022 PhD Applied Biosciences<\/div><div>\u2022 Courses: Microbial Genomics, Microbiology, Systems Genomics, Advance Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics &amp; Proteomics, Genome to Vaccinome.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>                        <\/div>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                <\/div><!-- .elementskit-card END -->\n\n                \n                <div class=\"elementskit-card \">\n                    <div class=\"elementskit-card-header\" id=\"primaryHeading-5-46df3dc\">\n                        <a href=\"#collapse-765e4b46a0c722aa9896\" class=\"ekit-accordion--toggler elementskit-btn-link collapsed\" data-ekit-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#Collapse-765e4b46a0c722aa9896\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"Collapse-765e4b46a0c722aa9896\">\n                            \n                            <span class=\"ekit-accordion-title\">Research Grants (PI &amp; CO-PI\/Partner)<\/span>\n\n                            \n                                <div class=\"ekit_accordion_icon_group\">\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_normal_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Normal Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-down-arrow1\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_active_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Active Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-up-arrow\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n\n                            \n                                                    <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div id=\"Collapse-765e4b46a0c722aa9896\" class=\" collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"primaryHeading-5-46df3dc\" data-parent=\"#accordion-6a0c722aa9896\">\n\n                        <div class=\"elementskit-card-body ekit-accordion--content\">\n                            <table>\n  <thead>\n    <tr>\n      <th style=\"padding: 12px;text-align: left;border: 1px solid #ddd;background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\">Period<\/th>\n      <th style=\"padding: 12px;text-align: left;border: 1px solid #ddd;background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\">Project Title &amp; Funding<\/th>\n      <th style=\"padding: 12px;text-align: left;border: 1px solid #ddd;background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\">Role<\/th>\n      <th style=\"padding: 12px;text-align: left;border: 1px solid #ddd;background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\">Amount<\/th>\n    <\/tr>\n  <\/thead>\n  <tbody>\n    <tr>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">2024 \u2013 2025<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>ARG-PRISM:<\/strong> Machine Learning-based framework for precise identification of antibiotic resistance genes from metagenomes - A NUST Flagship Project<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">Co-PI<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">-<\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">2023 \u2013 2025<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>NUST Biomedical Data Bank (NBDB);<\/strong> A Roadmap to Personalized Medicine \u2013 A NUST Flagship Project<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">Co-I<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">-<\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">2023 \u2013 2025<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>Study on Accurate Early Warning Methods for Dangerous Strains of Global Emerging Infectious Diseases.<\/strong> ANSO Collaborative Research Grant. (Pakistan \/ France \/ Brazil and China)<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">-<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">RMB 1.3M \/ PKR ~54M<\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">2022 \u2013 2024<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>An artificial intelligence framework for data-driven analysis of microbial pangenomes.<\/strong> HEC NRPU<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">PI<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">PKR 3.4M<\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">2022 \u2013 2022<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>TWIW:<\/strong> Two Weeks in the World: Capturing a snapshot of the world\u2019s human clinical bacterial pathogens (Technical University of Denmark Initiative)<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">PI (Pakistan)<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">-<\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">2021 \u2013 2024<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>Prediction, Designing and Experimental Validation of Potential Vaccine Candidates for Respiratory Syncytial Virus.<\/strong> Punjab Government<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">Co-I<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">PKR 7M<\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">2019 \u2013 2021<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>Assessment of indigenous Lactobacillus spp. for cholesterol reduction;<\/strong> a step towards probiotic designer foods. HEC NRPU<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">Co-I<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">PKR 2.58M<\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">2019 \u2013 2021<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>TWIW:<\/strong> Two Weeks in the World (DTU Initiative) - Antimicrobial resistance study<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">PI (Pakistan)<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">-<\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">2018 \u2013 2021<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>Genome wide meta-analysis of cDNA datasets and molecular validation of genetic variants in type II diabetes mellitus.<\/strong> HEC-NRPU<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">Co-I<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">PKR 3.03M<\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">2017 \u2013 2019<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>Analysing the Tumor Educated Platelets as Potential Biomarker in Molecular Diagnosis of Liver Cancer:<\/strong> A Minimally Invasive Approach alternative to Tissue Biopsy. HEC<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">Co-I<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">PKR 1.863M<\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">2016 \u2013 2019<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>Pangenome analysis of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains<\/strong> to study pathogenicity mechanisms and identify therapeutic interventions. HEC-NRPU<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">PI<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">PKR 1.05M<\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">2015 \u2013 2019<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>Analysis of gene variants and investigation of novel prognostic host factor targets<\/strong> to predict treatment response to peg-IFN\/RBV therapy in HCV infected Pakistani patients. HEC-NRPU<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">PI<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">PKR 2.486M<\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">2015 \u2013 2019<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\"><strong>Formal Analysis of the Impact of Feeding on Hepatocyte Circadian Oscillators.<\/strong> HEC-NRPU<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">Co-I<\/td>\n      <td style=\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\">PKR 0.929M<\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n<\/table>                        <\/div>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                <\/div><!-- .elementskit-card END -->\n\n                \n                <div class=\"elementskit-card \">\n                    <div class=\"elementskit-card-header\" id=\"primaryHeading-6-46df3dc\">\n                        <a href=\"#collapse-7dfdc736a0c722aa9896\" class=\"ekit-accordion--toggler elementskit-btn-link collapsed\" data-ekit-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#Collapse-7dfdc736a0c722aa9896\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"Collapse-7dfdc736a0c722aa9896\">\n                            \n                            <span class=\"ekit-accordion-title\">Travel Grants &amp; Fellowship<\/span>\n\n                            \n                                <div class=\"ekit_accordion_icon_group\">\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_normal_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Normal Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-down-arrow1\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_active_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Active Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-up-arrow\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n\n                            \n                                                    <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div id=\"Collapse-7dfdc736a0c722aa9896\" class=\" collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"primaryHeading-6-46df3dc\" data-parent=\"#accordion-6a0c722aa9896\">\n\n                        <div class=\"elementskit-card-body ekit-accordion--content\">\n                            <p>2023:<strong> Travel Grant<\/strong> for participation in 8th Big data forum for life and health Sciences, BIG, Beijing China<\/p><p>2023:<strong> Travel grant<\/strong> for participation in \u201cVaccine to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance\u201d Birmingham UK<\/p><p>2019:<strong> Travel Grant<\/strong> for visiting (Collaborative Research) Beijing Institute of Genomics, CAS, Beijing, China<\/p><p>2019: <strong>Travel Grant<\/strong> for Belt &amp; Road Workshop on Mycobacterial Diseases, GIBG, Guangzhou, China<\/p><p>2016: <strong>Travel Grant<\/strong> for <strong>Sysbio2016: Advanced Lecture Course on Systems Biology<\/strong>, Innsbruck, Austria<\/p><p><strong>2018: <\/strong><strong>Travel Grant<\/strong> for <strong>Sysbio2018: Advanced Lecture Course on Systems Biology<\/strong>, Innsbruck, Austria<\/p><p>2015:<strong> Travel Grant <\/strong>for participation EACR-OECI Conference on Precision Medicine for Cancer, Luxembourg<\/p><p>2010: <strong>Fellowship <\/strong>Grant TWAS-CNPq for Ph.D. Study at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil<\/p><p>2011: <strong>Fellowship <\/strong>Grant European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) for CBS \/ DTU, Denmark<\/p><p>2009: <strong>Fellowship <\/strong>Grant Moroccan Agency for International Cooperation (AMCI), Rabat, Morocco<\/p><p>2008: <strong>Fellowship <\/strong>Grant Higher Education Commission (HEC) Post Graduate Study Fellowship Award<\/p>                        <\/div>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                <\/div><!-- .elementskit-card END -->\n\n                \n                <div class=\"elementskit-card \">\n                    <div class=\"elementskit-card-header\" id=\"primaryHeading-7-46df3dc\">\n                        <a href=\"#collapse-67c861e6a0c722aa9896\" class=\"ekit-accordion--toggler elementskit-btn-link collapsed\" data-ekit-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#Collapse-67c861e6a0c722aa9896\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"Collapse-67c861e6a0c722aa9896\">\n                            \n                            <span class=\"ekit-accordion-title\">Conferences and Workshops<\/span>\n\n                            \n                                <div class=\"ekit_accordion_icon_group\">\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_normal_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Normal Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-down-arrow1\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_active_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Active Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-up-arrow\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n\n                            \n                                                    <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div id=\"Collapse-67c861e6a0c722aa9896\" class=\" collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"primaryHeading-7-46df3dc\" data-parent=\"#accordion-6a0c722aa9896\">\n\n                        <div class=\"elementskit-card-body ekit-accordion--content\">\n                            <p><strong>2025<\/strong><strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Amjad Ali, 3rd International Conference on Science, Technology &amp; Innovation, Kinnaird College, Lahore<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>2024: Amjad Ali, Invited Talk Course on AI &amp; Emerging Tech on Chem &amp; Bio Treats and Response, DESTO, Isb<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a02024: Amjad Ali, Int. Conference Current Trends, Prospects Opportunities in Vaccine Research CEMB, Lahore<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a02023: Amjad Ali, 1st Int. Conference on Challenges and Innovations in Medical Lab Sciences, Uni of Haripur, KP<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a02023: Amjad Ali, Invited Talk 11th Int. Conference on biological and computational sciences (C-BICS), Islamabad<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a02023: Amjad Ali, Invited Talk at the 8th Big Data Forum for Life and Health Sciences, NGDC, BIG, Beijing China<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a02023: Amjad Ali, National\u00a0Health\u00a0Research\u00a0Conference\u00a02023, Org by NIH, PSF, PAS, Sarena Hotel Islamabad<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a02023: Amjad Ali, <\/strong>ICHR-23: Workshop on Bioinformatics Tools for Clinical Research, University of Haripur, KPK:<\/p><h1><strong>\u00a02023: <\/strong><strong>Amjad Ali, <\/strong><strong>The Future of Biology: Hands on Workshop on Machine Learning:\u00a0 DENSEFUSION\/MGBIO, NUST <\/strong><\/h1><p><strong>\u00a02023: Amjad Ali, Invited Talk at Department of Department of Bioinformatics, Islamia University of Bahawalpur.<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a02023: Amjad Ali, National Health Research Conference Organised by NIH, HEC, PSF at Serena Islamabad.<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a02023:<\/strong> <strong>Amjad Ali, <\/strong>Applied Bioinformatics and Public Health Microbiology, Wellcome Genome Campus, UK Virtual<\/p><p>\u00a02023: <strong>Amjad Ali<\/strong> (poster) \u201cVaccine to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance\u201d Birmingham<strong>- <\/strong>Microbiology Society UK.<\/p><p><strong>\u00a02022: Amjad Ali, Establishing Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Resource Person\/Talk GEU Faisalabad, Nov 18th<\/strong><\/p><h1><strong>\u00a02022: <\/strong><strong>Amjad Ali, <\/strong><strong>National HW-CTB workshop 2022, Depart of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Uni of Lahore<\/strong><\/h1><p><strong>\u00a02022:<\/strong> <strong>Amjad Ali, 1st Int. seminar on \u201cBioinformatics and Comp Biochemistry in the Post genomic era, -AAUR <\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a02022: Amjad Ali, National Summer School on Biomolecular Sciences: Advances in Bioinformatics, Murree<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a02022: Amjad Ali ICEANS: 1st Int. Conf. on Engineering and applied Natural Sciences May 10-13, Konya\/Turkey<\/strong><\/p><h1><strong>\u00a02021: <\/strong><strong>Amjad Ali, <\/strong>1st int conf on Bioinformatics and Computational Methods in Post Genomic Era -VU\u2013 Lahore<\/h1><h1><strong>\u00a02021: <\/strong><strong>Amjad Ali, <\/strong><strong>IC-WEES 2021: Int. Conf. on Water, Energy and Environment for sustainability Chief Organizer<\/strong><\/h1><h1><strong>\u00a02019: <\/strong><strong>Amjad Ali, <\/strong><strong>Belt and Road &amp; Developing Countries Workshop &amp; Conf on Mycobacterial disease, China<\/strong><\/h1><p><strong>\u00a02019:<\/strong> <strong>Amjad Ali,<\/strong> <strong>International Symposium on Global Biodiversity and Health Big Data. NCB-BIG, Islamabad<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a02018: Amjad Ali, Invited Talk <\/strong>Advances in Microbial Genomics, at Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad<\/p><p><strong>\u00a02018: Amjad Ali, (poster presentation) Sysbio2018: Adv. Lecture Course on Systems Biology<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> Innsbruck, Austria<\/p><p><strong>\u00a02016: <\/strong><strong>Amjad Ali, (poster presentation) <\/strong><strong>Sysbio2018: Adv. Lecture Course on Systems Biology<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> Innsbruck, Austria<\/p><p><strong>\u00a02015: Amjad Ali, (poster) <\/strong>EACR-OECI Conference on \u201cPrecision Medicine for Cancer\u201d Luxembourg<\/p>                        <\/div>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                <\/div><!-- .elementskit-card END -->\n\n                \n                <div class=\"elementskit-card \">\n                    <div class=\"elementskit-card-header\" id=\"primaryHeading-8-46df3dc\">\n                        <a href=\"#collapse-0420c786a0c722aa9896\" class=\"ekit-accordion--toggler elementskit-btn-link collapsed\" data-ekit-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#Collapse-0420c786a0c722aa9896\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"Collapse-0420c786a0c722aa9896\">\n                            \n                            <span class=\"ekit-accordion-title\">Organizer of Conferences and Workshops<\/span>\n\n                            \n                                <div class=\"ekit_accordion_icon_group\">\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_normal_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Normal Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-down-arrow1\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_active_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Active Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-up-arrow\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n\n                            \n                                                    <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div id=\"Collapse-0420c786a0c722aa9896\" class=\" collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"primaryHeading-8-46df3dc\" data-parent=\"#accordion-6a0c722aa9896\">\n\n                        <div class=\"elementskit-card-body ekit-accordion--content\">\n                            <p><strong>2025: Hands-on Workshop on Taxonomic Biomarker Identification Metagenomic dataset, Kinnaird College Lahore. <\/strong><\/p><p><strong>2025: Hands-on Workshop Coding for Biologist (MGBIO\/DenseFusion) @ SINES Feb 7, 2025<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>2024: Machine-Learning for Biologist: Hands-on Training Workshop (MGBIO\/ASAB) Dec 5, 2024<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>2024: <\/strong>Swiss Pakistani Workshop on \u201cGenomic Medicine and Recessive Disorders\u201d PAS, Nov, 28, 2024<\/p><p><strong>2024: ICiLS: 1st <\/strong>International Conference on Integrative Life Sciences, ASAB, NUST, Sept 25-27, 2024<\/p><p><strong>2024: Strategic Framework for Preventing Inherited Diseases in Pakistan (PAS, HSA, CUST, NUST), August 29<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>2024:<\/strong> <strong>International Conference on Current Trends, Prospects Opportunities in \u201cVaccine Research\u201d CEMB, Lahore<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>2023: The Future of Biology: Hands on Workshop on Machine Learning:\u00a0 DENSEFUSION\/MGBIO, SINES, NUST<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>2023: <\/strong>ICHR-23: Workshop on Bioinformatics Tools for Clinical Research, University of Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa<\/p><p><strong>2021: IC-WEES 2021: Int. Conf. on Water, Energy and Environment for sustainability Chief Organizer<\/strong><\/p>                        <\/div>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                <\/div><!-- .elementskit-card END -->\n\n                \n                <div class=\"elementskit-card \">\n                    <div class=\"elementskit-card-header\" id=\"primaryHeading-9-46df3dc\">\n                        <a href=\"#collapse-dc5321f6a0c722aa9896\" class=\"ekit-accordion--toggler elementskit-btn-link collapsed\" data-ekit-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#Collapse-dc5321f6a0c722aa9896\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"Collapse-dc5321f6a0c722aa9896\">\n                            \n                            <span class=\"ekit-accordion-title\">Capacity Building: Trainings, and Courses<\/span>\n\n                            \n                                <div class=\"ekit_accordion_icon_group\">\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_normal_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Normal Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-down-arrow1\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n\n                                    <div class=\"ekit_accordion_active_icon\">\n                                        <!-- Active Icon -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"icon icon-up-arrow\"><\/i>                                    <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n\n                            \n                                                    <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div id=\"Collapse-dc5321f6a0c722aa9896\" class=\" collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"primaryHeading-9-46df3dc\" data-parent=\"#accordion-6a0c722aa9896\">\n\n                        <div class=\"elementskit-card-body ekit-accordion--content\">\n                            <p><strong>2023: <\/strong>Applied Bioinformatics and Public Health Microbiology\u00a0(ABPHM), Wellcome Connecting Science<\/p><p><strong>2023: <\/strong>Leadership in Public Sector, Pakistan Planning and Management Institute (PPMI), Ministry of Planning development and Special Initiatives, Pakistan<\/p><p><strong>2021: <\/strong>Project Planning and Scheduling Pakistan Planning and Management Institute (PPMI), Ministry of Planning development and Special Initiatives, Pakistan<\/p><p><strong>2020: <\/strong>Pakistan Research Day 2020, Web of science, Clarivate Analytic. NUST, Islamabad.<\/p><p><strong>2019: <\/strong>Training and Collaborative Research at Big Data Centre, BIG, (BIGD), Beijing, China<\/p><p><strong>2019: <\/strong>Biosafety Leadership Summit, Fogartry NIH US, Marriott, Islamabad-Pakistan Mar 18-20<\/p><p><strong>2018:<\/strong> Next Generation Sequencing data analysis workshop, COMSATS, Islamabad<\/p><p><strong>2018: <\/strong>Brainstorming Workshop for the Development of National Policy on Biotechnology, NUST<\/p><p><strong>2018: <\/strong>Pak-China Genomics Workshop at NCB, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad<\/p><p><strong>2018: <\/strong>Sysbio2018: Adv. Lecture Course on Systems Biology, Innsbruck, Austria Feb 28-Mar 4<\/p><p><strong>2016: <\/strong>Sysbio2016: Adv. Lecture Course on Systems Biology, Innsbruck, Austria Feb 28-Mar 4<\/p><p><strong>2016: <\/strong>ICGBE Training Course on \u201cBasic Biotechnology Techniques\u201d NYAS - NUST Feb 23-25<\/p><p><strong>2011: <\/strong>Bacterial Pathogenesis and its Impact on Clinical Outcome of Infections, UFMG, Brazil<\/p><p><strong>2011: <\/strong>Comparative Microbial Genomic Course\/ Training, Centre for Biological Sequences, DTU, Denmark<\/p><p><strong>2011:<\/strong> Perl for Bioinformatics, Course, Brazilian Association for Bioinformatics Ouro Preto, Brazil<\/p><p><strong>2010: <\/strong>Platform NGS-SOLiD\" Sequencing, Assembly and Annotation of Bacterial Genomes (UFPA), Brazil<\/p><p><strong>2009: <\/strong>Research Ethics Certificate Course-96hrs Aga Khan University \/John Hopkins USA<\/p><p><strong>2006: <\/strong>Nuclear &amp; Advance Techniques in Agricultural &amp; Biological Sciences, NIAB, FSD-Pakistan<\/p><p><strong>2004: <\/strong>Molecular Detection and Genotyping of HCV\/ HBV by PCR Methods and Quality Assurance Issues<\/p>                        <\/div>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                <\/div><!-- .elementskit-card END -->\n\n                                                        <script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Professional &amp; Academic Background\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"<p>07\/24 \u2013 present<strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Professor <\/strong>(Tenured) Department of Microbiology &amp; Biotechnology, Atta Ur Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences &amp; Technology, Islamabad<\/p><p>10\/22 \u2013 present\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Founder &amp; CEO<\/strong> <strong>MGBIO <\/strong>(Private Limited): A spinoff Company at National Science &amp; Technology Park (NSTP), Islamabad<\/p><p>09\/23 \u2013 06\/24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Consultant (Professor)<\/strong> Health Services Academy (HSA), Ministry of Health Services Regulations and Coordination, Islamabad<\/p><p>08\/19 \u2013 07\/24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Associate Professor <\/strong>(Tenured) Department of Microbiology &amp; Biotechnology National University of Sciences &amp; Technology, Islamabad<\/p><p>06\/22 \u2013 10\/23\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Head of Department<\/strong> Industrial Biotechnology, Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences &amp; Technology<\/p><p>12\/18 \u2013 03\/19\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Head of Department<\/strong> (Research) (Acting Charge) Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences &amp; Technology<\/p><p>08\/13 \u2013 08\/19\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Assistant Professor (TTS) <\/strong>National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Atta-ur- Rahman School of Applied Biosciences (ASAB), Islamabad<\/p><p>09\/19 \u2013 11\/19\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Visiting Scientist<\/strong> Big Data Centre (BIG), Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China<\/p><p>06\/10 \u2013 03\/13\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>TWAS-CNPq<\/strong> <strong>Ph.D. Research Fellow <\/strong>Department of General Biology<strong>, <\/strong>Federal University of Minas Gerais UFMS), Belo Horizonte, Brazil<\/p><p>08\/11 \u2013 12\/11\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Visiting Research Fellow <\/strong>Centre for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark<\/p><p>06\/07 \u2013 08\/09\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Senior<\/strong> <strong>Research Associate<\/strong> National Institute for Biotechnology &amp; Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad<\/p><p>09\/06 \u2013 08\/08\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Master of Philosophy <\/strong>(Biotechnology) Department of Biotechnology, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad<\/p><p>12\/01 \u2013 03\/05 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Bachelor of Science <\/strong>(Biotechnology), Department of Biotechnology, University of Malakand, Chakdara<\/p>\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Awards and Fellowships\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"<p>2024: <strong>Best Innovator Award<\/strong> (for the year 2023) Institutional Award, National University of Sciences &amp; Technology<\/p><p>2023: <strong>Best Researcher Award<\/strong> (for the years 2022) Institutional Award, National University of Sciences &amp; Technology<\/p><p>2023:<strong> NUST Star Performer <\/strong>listed among the \u201cTop Performers\u201d of the National University of Sciences &amp; Technology<\/p><p>2021: <strong>GOLD Medal<\/strong> and Prize in the Category of Emerging (Bio)Technologies by Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS)<\/p><p>2022:<strong> Best Innovator Award <\/strong>(for the year 2021) Institutional Award, National University of Sciences &amp; Technology<\/p><p>2019:<strong> Rector\u2019s Gold Medals <\/strong>BEST FINAL YEAR RESEARCH PROJECTS (BS in Applied Biosciences students Groups)<\/p><p>2018: <strong>Research Productivity Awards<\/strong> in \u201cBiological Sciences \u201cby Pakistan Council for Science &amp; Technology (PCST)<\/p><p>2018: <strong>Productive Scientist of Pakistan<\/strong> in \u201cBiological Sciences\u201d by Pakistan Council for Science &amp; Technology (PCST)<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2018:<strong> Performance-Based Incentives<\/strong> in Tenure Track System Awarded for the years 2017-2018-2022, HR, NUST<\/p><p>2017: <strong>48th Young Productive Scientist<\/strong> of Pakistan under 40 by Pakistan Council for Science &amp; Technology (PCST)<\/p><p>2017: <strong>Best Researcher Award<\/strong> (for years 2016\/17) Institutional Award, National University of Sciences &amp; Technology<\/p><p>2016: <strong>Best Research Paper Award<\/strong> (for the years 2013\/14) Awarded by Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan<\/p><p>2011: <strong>European Molecular Biology Fellowship<\/strong> <strong>(EMBL)<\/strong> for collaborative research at Technical University, Denmark<\/p><p>2010: <strong>TWAS-CNPq Fellowship:<\/strong> Funded PhD Fellowship Award for doctoral studies in UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil<\/p>\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Students Supervision\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"<table>\\n<tbody>\\n<tr>\\n<td style=\\\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>PhD Thesis Supervised:<\/strong><\/td>\\n<td style=\\\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;text-align: right\\\">05<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td style=\\\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>PhD Co-supervised:<\/strong><\/td>\\n<td style=\\\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;text-align: right\\\">04<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td style=\\\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>MS students Supervised:<\/strong><\/td>\\n<td style=\\\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;text-align: right\\\">28<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td style=\\\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>UG FYP Supervised:<\/strong><\/td>\\n<td style=\\\"padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;text-align: right\\\">10<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td style=\\\"padding: 5px\\\"><strong>Student Committees:<\/strong><\/td>\\n<td style=\\\"padding: 5px;text-align: right\\\">10<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<\/tbody>\\n<\/table>\\n<table>\\n<thead>\\n<tr>\\n<th style=\\\"background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\\\">#<\/th>\\n<th style=\\\"background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\\\">Student Name<\/th>\\n<th style=\\\"background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\\\">Year of Graduation<\/th>\\n<\/tr>\\n<\/thead>\\n<tbody>\\n<tr>\\n<td colspan=\\\"4\\\" style=\\\"background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\\\"><strong>MS Students Supervised (Primary)<\/strong><\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>1<\/td>\\n<td>Aneeqa Arshad<\/td>\\n<td>2015<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>4<\/td>\\n<td>Shifa Tariq Ashraf<\/td>\\n<td>2017<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>5<\/td>\\n<td>Fatima Shahid<\/td>\\n<td>2018<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>6<\/td>\\n<td>Hira Sikandar<\/td>\\n<td>2018<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>7<\/td>\\n<td>Tanzeela Raza<\/td>\\n<td>2018<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>8<\/td>\\n<td>M. Hamza Dar<\/td>\\n<td>2019<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>9<\/td>\\n<td>Muhammad Shehroz<\/td>\\n<td>2019<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>10<\/td>\\n<td>Tahreem Zaheer<\/td>\\n<td>2019<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>11<\/td>\\n<td>Maaz Waseem<\/td>\\n<td>2020<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>12<\/td>\\n<td>Zaara Ishaq<\/td>\\n<td>2020<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>13<\/td>\\n<td>Hayqa Shahwar<\/td>\\n<td>2021<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>14<\/td>\\n<td>Amina Basheer<\/td>\\n<td>2022<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>15<\/td>\\n<td>Kainat Khalil<\/td>\\n<td>2022<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>16<\/td>\\n<td>Samavi Nasir<\/td>\\n<td>2022<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>17<\/td>\\n<td>Shaheera Amjad<\/td>\\n<td>2022<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>18<\/td>\\n<td>Summaya Umair<\/td>\\n<td>2023<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>19<\/td>\\n<td>Mahnoor Masood<\/td>\\n<td>2023<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>20<\/td>\\n<td>Shah Fawad<\/td>\\n<td>2023<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>21<\/td>\\n<td>Fizza Faiz<\/td>\\n<td>2024<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>22<\/td>\\n<td>Uzair Haider<\/td>\\n<td>2024<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>23<\/td>\\n<td>Anoosh Bano<\/td>\\n<td>2024<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>24<\/td>\\n<td>Rida Fatima<\/td>\\n<td>2024<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>25<\/td>\\n<td>Maryam Zahra<\/td>\\n<td>2024<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>26<\/td>\\n<td>Hafiza Tooba Tahir<\/td>\\n<td>2024<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>27<\/td>\\n<td>Saifullah Khan<\/td>\\n<td>2025<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>28<\/td>\\n<td>Zulqarnain Haider<\/td>\\n<td>2025<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>31<\/td>\\n<td>Kinza Manzoor<\/td>\\n<td>Ongoing<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>32<\/td>\\n<td>Ayesha Abbas<\/td>\\n<td>Ongoing<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>33<\/td>\\n<td>Aiman Siddique<\/td>\\n<td>Ongoing<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td colspan=\\\"4\\\" style=\\\"background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\\\"><strong>UG FYP Supervised<\/strong><\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td colspan=\\\"4\\\">06 (12x Students) - Undergraduate FYP supervised <br> 2 GOLD Medals on best projects<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td colspan=\\\"4\\\" style=\\\"background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\\\"><strong>MS Students (Co-Supervised \/ Graduated)<\/strong><\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>1<\/td>\\n<td>Maryam Rashid (ASAB)<\/td>\\n<td>2017<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>2<\/td>\\n<td>Absar Mazhar (ASAB)<\/td>\\n<td>2017<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>3<\/td>\\n<td>M. Waqas (SMME)<\/td>\\n<td>2017<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td>4<\/td>\\n<td>Hafsa Manzoor (ASAB)<\/td>\\n<td>2018<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<\/tbody>\\n<\/table>\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Publications &amp; Citations\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"<table>\\n<tbody>\\n<tr>\\n<td><strong>Journal Publications:<\/strong><\/td>\\n<td>132<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td><strong>Conference Papers:<\/strong><\/td>\\n<td>07<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td><strong>Book Chapters:<\/strong><\/td>\\n<td>22<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td><strong>IPs (Copyrights\/Patents):<\/strong><\/td>\\n<td>02<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td><strong>H-Index:<\/strong><\/td>\\n<td>35<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<tr>\\n<td><strong>Citations:<\/strong><\/td>\\n<td>4650<\/td>\\n<\/tr>\\n<\/tbody>\\n<\/table>\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Academic and Professional Contributions\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"<div style=\\\"max-width: 800px;margin: 0 auto\\\"><p><!-- Leadership Section --><\/p><div style=\\\"margin-bottom: 20px\\\"><div style=\\\"flex: 1;font-weight: bold;padding-right: 20px\\\">Leadership and Administrative Roles:<\/div><div style=\\\"flex: 2\\\"><div>\u2022 Head, Department of Industrial Biotechnology (2022-2023)<\/div><div>\u2022 Head, Integrative Biology Laboratory (iB)<\/div><div>\u2022 Head, Institutional Committee for Internationalization (IFPI)<\/div><div>\u2022 Head, Microbial Genomics &amp; Bioinformatics (MGB) Group<\/div><div>\u2022 Ex-Deputy Director Examination (Acting Charge) (ASAB\/School)<\/div><div>\u2022 Member NUST Strategic Steering Committee (SSC)<\/div><div>\u2022 Member of Departmental Technical Review Committee (DTRC)<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Institutional Curriculum Review Committee (ICRC)<\/div><div>\u2022 Member of University\/ Institutional Review Board (IRB)<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Institutional Research Evaluation Committee<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Committees on Student Grievances \/ Discipline<\/div><div>\u2022 Focal Person China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC-Cell)<\/div><div>\u2022 Organizing Chair: IC-WEES NUST Flagship Conference<\/div><\/div><\/div><p><!-- Advisory Section --><\/p><div style=\\\"margin-bottom: 20px\\\"><div style=\\\"flex: 1;font-weight: bold;padding-right: 20px\\\">Advisory &amp; Board Memberships:<\/div><div style=\\\"flex: 2\\\"><div>\u2022 Directorate of Science &amp; Tech KP Government TEC Member \\\"Science Agenda\\\"<\/div><div>\u2022 Policy Dialogue (Member Biotech TF) on Science, Technology, &amp; Engineering for Development (STED) 2025 Ministry of Planning, Dev. &amp; Special Initiative<\/div><div>\u2022 Advisory Committee for STEM Education Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF)<\/div><div>\u2022 Pakistan Science Foundation National Technology Innovation Fund (NTIF)<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Higher Education Commission Accreditation &amp; Inspection Team<\/div><div>\u2022 HEC National Curriculum Review Committee (NCRC) on Biotechnology<\/div><div>\u2022 Member HEC Technology Development Fund Review Committee<\/div><div>\u2022 Ministry of Science &amp; Technology (MoST) Review Committee for Technical and Economic Feasibility of New Universities \/ Campuses.<\/div><div>\u2022 Peer Reviewer: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF); Grants &amp; Fellowships<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Maroof International Hospital Institutional Review Board.<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Selection Board Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Pesh.<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Board of Studies (BoS): QAU, SBBWU, IUBWP, KUM, RWU, BZU.<\/div><div>\u2022 Member Departmental Technical Review Committees: ASAB, SINES, NUMS.<\/div><div>\u2022 Mentor for Global Health Hackathon 2025: Organized by Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab \\\"Building High Value Health Systems through AI\\\"<\/div><\/div><\/div><p><!-- International Memberships Section --><\/p><div style=\\\"margin-bottom: 20px\\\"><div style=\\\"flex: 1;font-weight: bold;padding-right: 20px\\\">International Scientific Memberships:<\/div><div style=\\\"flex: 2\\\"><div>\u2022 Global Biodiversity and Health Big Data (BHBD) Alliance Fellow Member<\/div><div>\u2022 American Society of Microbiology ASM - Global Outreach Membership<\/div><div>\u2022 BactiVac Network UK: Accelerating Bacterial Vaccines around the world<\/div><div>\u2022 The International Society of Global Health (ISoGH)<\/div><div>\u2022 European Society of Clinical Microbiology &amp; Infectious Diseases (2016)<\/div><div>\u2022 Bioinformactics.org (Canada)<\/div><div>\u2022 The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)<\/div><div>\u2022 National Academy of Young Scientists Pakistan (NYAS)<\/div><div>\u2022 Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB) - Pakistan Chapter<\/div><\/div><\/div><p><!-- Editorial Section --><\/p><div style=\\\"margin-bottom: 20px\\\"><div style=\\\"flex: 1;font-weight: bold;padding-right: 20px\\\">Editorial &amp; Peer-Review Contributions:<\/div><div style=\\\"flex: 2\\\"><div>\u2022 Review Editor: Frontiers in Microbiology (Medicine, Public Health)<\/div><div>\u2022 Editor: Current Proteomics<\/div><div>\u2022 Associate Editor: NUST Journal of Natural Science (NJNS)<\/div><div>\u2022 Editorial Advisory Board, Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences<\/div><div>\u2022 Reviewing for: Gene, PlosOne, Scientific Reports, Genomics (Elsevier), BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Microbiology, BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, Computers in Biology, Infection Genetics and Evolution, Genomics Proteomics &amp; Bioinformatics, Computers in Biology. etc.<\/div><\/div><\/div><p><!-- Programs Section --><\/p><div><div style=\\\"flex: 1;font-weight: bold;padding-right: 20px\\\">Programs &amp; Curriculum Development:<\/div><div style=\\\"flex: 2\\\"><div>\u2022 BS Biotechnology and BS Food Science &amp; Technology (FST)<\/div><div>\u2022 MS Industrial Biotechnology: (Applied Microbiology\/ Systems &amp; Synthetic Biology)<\/div><div>\u2022 PhD Applied Biosciences<\/div><div>\u2022 Courses: Microbial Genomics, Microbiology, Systems Genomics, Advance Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics &amp; Proteomics, Genome to Vaccinome.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Research Grants (PI &amp; CO-PI\/Partner)\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"<table>\\n  <thead>\\n    <tr>\\n      <th style=\\\"padding: 12px;text-align: left;border: 1px solid #ddd;background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\\\">Period<\/th>\\n      <th style=\\\"padding: 12px;text-align: left;border: 1px solid #ddd;background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\\\">Project Title &amp; Funding<\/th>\\n      <th style=\\\"padding: 12px;text-align: left;border: 1px solid #ddd;background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\\\">Role<\/th>\\n      <th style=\\\"padding: 12px;text-align: left;border: 1px solid #ddd;background-color: #003380;color: white;font-weight: 800\\\">Amount<\/th>\\n    <\/tr>\\n  <\/thead>\\n  <tbody>\\n    <tr>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">2024 \u2013 2025<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>ARG-PRISM:<\/strong> Machine Learning-based framework for precise identification of antibiotic resistance genes from metagenomes - A NUST Flagship Project<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">Co-PI<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">-<\/td>\\n    <\/tr>\\n    <tr>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">2023 \u2013 2025<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>NUST Biomedical Data Bank (NBDB);<\/strong> A Roadmap to Personalized Medicine \u2013 A NUST Flagship Project<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">Co-I<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">-<\/td>\\n    <\/tr>\\n    <tr>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">2023 \u2013 2025<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>Study on Accurate Early Warning Methods for Dangerous Strains of Global Emerging Infectious Diseases.<\/strong> ANSO Collaborative Research Grant. (Pakistan \/ France \/ Brazil and China)<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">-<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">RMB 1.3M \/ PKR ~54M<\/td>\\n    <\/tr>\\n    <tr>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">2022 \u2013 2024<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>An artificial intelligence framework for data-driven analysis of microbial pangenomes.<\/strong> HEC NRPU<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">PI<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">PKR 3.4M<\/td>\\n    <\/tr>\\n    <tr>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">2022 \u2013 2022<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>TWIW:<\/strong> Two Weeks in the World: Capturing a snapshot of the world\u2019s human clinical bacterial pathogens (Technical University of Denmark Initiative)<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">PI (Pakistan)<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">-<\/td>\\n    <\/tr>\\n    <tr>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">2021 \u2013 2024<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>Prediction, Designing and Experimental Validation of Potential Vaccine Candidates for Respiratory Syncytial Virus.<\/strong> Punjab Government<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">Co-I<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">PKR 7M<\/td>\\n    <\/tr>\\n    <tr>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">2019 \u2013 2021<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>Assessment of indigenous Lactobacillus spp. for cholesterol reduction;<\/strong> a step towards probiotic designer foods. HEC NRPU<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">Co-I<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">PKR 2.58M<\/td>\\n    <\/tr>\\n    <tr>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">2019 \u2013 2021<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>TWIW:<\/strong> Two Weeks in the World (DTU Initiative) - Antimicrobial resistance study<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">PI (Pakistan)<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">-<\/td>\\n    <\/tr>\\n    <tr>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">2018 \u2013 2021<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>Genome wide meta-analysis of cDNA datasets and molecular validation of genetic variants in type II diabetes mellitus.<\/strong> HEC-NRPU<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">Co-I<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">PKR 3.03M<\/td>\\n    <\/tr>\\n    <tr>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\">2017 \u2013 2019<\/td>\\n      <td style=\\\"padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #ddd\\\"><strong>Analysing the Tumor Educated Platelets as Potential Biomarker in Molecular Diagnosis of Liver Cancer:<\/strong> A Minimally Invasive Approach alternative to Tissue Biopsy. 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