National University of Medical Sciences

List of Faculty of Biological Sciences

Faculty Members

Name	Designation	Qualification	Research Interests
Dr. Aisha Mohyuddin	Professor	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Population and Disease Genetics
Hussain Abidi	Professor	Biotechnology	APIs, Biosimilars, Fermentation, Recombinant DNA Technology
Dr. Muhammad Jawad Hassan	Professor	Biology	Human Disease Genetics
Dr. Adnan Haider	Associate Professor	Polymer Science (Organic Chemistry)	Electrospun Nanofibers of the Cheap Biopolymers for the Treatment and/or Separation of Waste Materials, Electrospun Nanofibers of the Cheap Biopolymers for the Treatment and Their Biomedical Application Preparation of The Nanoparticles with Unique Property of Stimuli Based Control Release of Drugs.
Dr. Raees Khan	Associate Professor	Applied Biology	Host-Microbiome Interactions, Antibiotic Resistance, Developing Novel Antimicrobials, Functional Bioprospecting from Metagenomics,Bacteriophage Based Therapies, Metagenomics, Microbiomes
Dr. Sidra Younis	Associate Professor	Clinical Diagnostics and Biomarker Discovery	Latent and Active Tuberculosis Diagnostics and Transcriptomics
Dr. Nosheen Akhtar	Associate Professor	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Drug Discovery, Cancer Biology and Therapeutics, Application of Proteomics and Computational Approaches to Understand Signalling Heterogeneity
Dr. Waseem Safdar	Associate Professor	Food Biotechnology	Metabolic Engineering, Functional Foods and Human Health, PUFA/Omega-3 Fatty acid Biosynthesis, Microencapsulation, Applications of Microbial Single Cell Oils, Industrial Biotechnology, Fermentation Technology, GMOs
Munnaza Fatima	Assistant Professor	Virology and Immunology	Viral Infections (Influenza Virus, Rota Virus, Hepatitis A Virus), Viral Epidemiology, Viral Vaccines (Inactivated and Recombinant), Antiviral Drugs
Dr. Muhammad Saad Ahmed	Assistant Professor	Biochemical Engineering	Metabolic Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Terpenoids Production
Dr. Rida Fatima Saeed	Assistant Professor	Biochemistry	Cancer Biology/Therapeutics
Dr. Rabail Zehra Raza	Assistant Professor	Bioinformatics	Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics, Population Genetics, Cis-Regulatory Evolution in Human
Dr. Saghir Abbas	Assistant Professor	Analytical/ Inorganic Chemistry	Green chemistry, Electrochemistry, Electrocatalytic water splitting (HER and OER), Organometallics, Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs), Drug Development and Delivery
Dr. Samina Akbar	Assistant Professor	Biotechnology and Food Processing	Regulation of Lipid and Lipoproteins Metabolism, Dyslipidemia and Related Disorders
Dr. Wasim Sajjad	Assistant Professor	Microbiology	Natural products and Drug Discovery, Probiotics, Quorum Quenching Molecules, Natural Chelators, Extromozymes
Dr. Hussain Mustatab Wahedi	Assistant Professor	Pharmacy	Skin Regeneration, Stem Cell Biology, Wound Healing, Diabetic Wound Healing, Skin Aging
Dr. Syed Babar Jamal Bacha	Assistant Professor	Bioinformatics	Pan-Genomics, Pan-Modelomics, Subtractive Genomics, Molecular Docking, Virtual Screening, NGS, Assembly and Annotation
Dr. Muhammad Zeeshan Bhatti	Assistant Professor	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Cancer Biology/Cancer Biomarkers, Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer Progression, Drug Discovery, Cross Talk of Signaling Pathways
Dr. Muhammad Naeem	Assistant Professor	Pharmacy	Drug Delivery, Nanomedicine, Biomaterials, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Wound Healing
Dr. Saima Hanif	Assistant Professor	Microbiology and Immunology	Drug Discovery and Development, Biosensor, Aptasensors, Natural Products Research
Dr. Deeba Amraiz	Assistant Professor	Virology and Immunology	Dengue Virus, Antiviral Activity In Vitro, Vaccine & Therapeutics, Vector-Borne Viral Infections, Expression and Purification of Recombinant Proteins
Dr. Uzma Azeem Awan	Assistant Professor	Biotechnology	Nanobiotechnology, Nanomaterials, Nanotheranostics, Gene Knockdown, Optical Control (using NIR-Lasers) Drug Release and Gene Interference, Drug Delivery, Photothermal therapy
Dr. Syeda Mehpara Farhat	Assistant Professor	Virology and Immunology	Alzheimer's Disease, Neuroscience, Metal Neurotoxicity, Learning and Memory, Cholinergic System, Animal Behavior Studies
Dr. Sidra Younis	Assistant Professor	Clinical Diagnostics and Biomarker Discovery	Latent and Active Tuberculosis Diagnostics and Transcriptomics
Dr. Asma Saleem Qazi	Assistant Professor	Pathology (Molecular Biology)	Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Proteomics, Basic and Applied Microbiology
Dr. Sabba Mehmood	Assistant Professor	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Clinical and Molecular Characterization of Genes Associated with Hereditary Disorder
Dr. Sumra Wajid Abbasi	Assistant Professor	Bioinformatics	Homolgy Modelling, Ab Initio Protein Structure Prediction, Virtual Screening, Compound Synthesis, Reverse Vaccinology, Protein-ligand Docking, Protein-Protein Docking, Molecular Dynamic Simulations
Dr. Liaqat Ali	Assistant Professor	Molecular Microbiology	Human Infectious Diseases, Immunotherapeutics, Recombinant Antibody Engineering and Development
Dr. Munazza Fatima	Assistant Professor	Virology and Immunology	Viral Infections (Influenza Virus, Rota Virus, Hepatitis A Virus), Viral Epidemiology, Viral Vaccines (Inactivated and Recombinant), Antiviral Drugs
Dr. Tahir Naeem Khan	Assistant Professor	Biotechnology	Human Disease Genetics; Knock Down Genes, Expression Analysis
Dr. Sana Gul	Assistant Professor	Virology and Immunology	HIV/HPV Host Virus Interactions & Pathogenesis, Cervical Cancer, Oncolytic Virotherapy
Dr. Shumaila Naz	Assistant Professor	Zoology	Recombinant Proteins, Development of Immuno-diagnostics for Infectious Diseases, Monoclonal Antibodies Production (Immunotherapy), Neglected Tropical Diseases, Disease Proteomics
Dr. Fazli Subhan	Assistant Professor	Microbiology and Immunology	Synthetic Organoid Synthesis (cancer, skin, bone and neuronal cells), Cancer (cancer pathology and anticancer drug screening), Skin Proliferation and Regeneration, Retina and RPE Synthetic Organoid Construction
Dr. Humayoon Shafiq Satti	Assistant Professor	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Stem Cell Biology, Clinical Genetics of Haematological and other Hereditary Diseases, Cellular and Immunotherapy
Dr. Tariq Navid	Assistant Professor	Preventive Veterinary Medicine	Molecular Virology, Recombinant Vaccines, Immunotherapeutics, One Health & Zoonotic Diseases, Molecular Medicine, Sero-surveillance
Dr. Shaista Aslam	Assistant Professor	Zoology	Genetics of Reproductive Diseases (Hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism and gametogenesis failure), Clinical Diagnosis, Endocrine and Molecular Characterization of Endocrine Disorders (precocious and delayed puberty, infertility)
Dr. Umar Raza	Assistant Professor	Molecular Biology and Genetics	Cancer Therapy Resistance, Metastasis, non-coding RNAs, miRNA-mRNA Regulatory Networks, Breast Cancer
Dr. Huma Shawana	Assistant Professor	Molecular Biology and Genetics	Bioinformatics, Gene Expression Analysis, Co-expression Network and Pathways, Cancer Genetics, Bioinformatics Web Tools Development
Dr. Sara Mumtaz	Assistant Professor	Biological Sciences	Disease Genetics, Clinical Characterization of Birth Defects and Genetic Disorders Including Cancer, Neurological and Skeletal Disorders, Epidemiology/Patient Registry or Biobank
Dr. Mahwish Ali	Assistant Professor	Microbiology	Bioreactor Designing, Microbial and Organic Matter Quantification and Analysis in Water, Microbial Biofilm Analysis, Value Added Metabolite Production (Biogas, Biofuels), Resistance Mechanisms in Medical and Environmental Bacteria, Software Based Simulations of Bioreactors, Water Based and Food Borne Pathogens Characterization, Metagenomics
Dr. Muhammad Faheem	Assistant Professor	Genomic Sciences and Biotechnology	Recombinant DNA Technology, Protein Biochemistry, Recombinant Protein Production, Structural Biology
Dr. Atif Ali Khan Khalil	Assistant Professor	Phytochemistry/Pharmacognosy	Natural Products, Drug Discovery, Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Secondary Metabolites, Standardization of Traditional Herbal Medicines using inner Morphological and Chemical Characterization, Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Natural Compounds, Pharmacological Evaluation.
Dr. Aman Karim	Associate Professor	Phytochemistry/Natural Product Chemistry	Discovery of Molecules with Anti-inflammatory, Immunomodulatory and Anti-infective Activities from Samples of Natural Origin Chemical Characterization of Plant/Biological Samples Using Chromatographic and Spectroscopic Methods
Dr. Nazir Ahmed	Associate Professor	Microbiology & Immunology	-
Dr. Saeed Ahmed	Assistant Professor	Basic Veterinary Medicine (Antibiotics Residue and Food Microbiology)	Method Development for Antibiotic Residue Detection from Food Matrices
Dr. Sayed Afzal Shah	Assistant Professor	Plant Taxonomy and Molecular Systematics (Plant Sciences)	Plant Taxonomy & Molecular Systematics, Medicinal Botany & Informatics
Dr. Aysha Karim Kiani	Assistant Professor	Virology & Immunology/Human Genetics	Human Genetic Disorders, Autoimmune Diseases, Immunogenetics, Precision Medicine, Pharmacogenomics, Epigenetics in Autoimmunity

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