
Dr. M. Kamran Azim (PhD UoK, Pakistan)
PROFILE SUMMARY
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Prof. M. Kamran Azim has more than 25 years of experience in research, teaching, training, and administrative service experience in an academic setting. Currently, he is serving as Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi. He has demonstrated the ability to run and manage research laboratories, including project design, collaborations, experimentation, submission and publication in manuscript form (as senior author), submission of research grants to federal and private agencies (as principal investigator), recruiting and supervising personnel and trainees.
Prof. Azim teaches courses on Genomics, Bioinformatics, Protein Chemistry, Enzymology and Molecular Biology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has supervised 10 Ph.D. and 10 M.Phil. students. Currently, Prof. Azim has 70 research publications with >130 cumulative impact factor. His field of research interest is Genomics and Molecular Biology. Prof. Azim’s group is currently involved in several research projects related to human genomics, human disease genomics, and metagenomics. He led the genome mapping project of the first Pakistani individual (https://www.dawn.com/news/640711). Prof. Azim’s group utilizes experimental methods (Next Generation Sequencing, Spectroscopy) as well as knowledge-based computational techniques (Bioinformatics and Molecular modeling) to answer questions regarding structure-function relationships in genes and proteins. Recently, Prof. Azim’s group has characterized the oral bacteriome dysbiosis in type 2 diabetic patients (medRxiv 2020.04.09.20052613). The latest research carried out in his laboratory provided novel insight into salivary microbiome dysbiosis in addicts of betel nut preparations (medRxiv 2020.04.13.20064063). Moreover, Prof. Azim’s group carried out metagenomic profiling of (a) freshwater lakes at different altitudes in Pakistan and (b) bacterial communities in the drinking water supply system of Karachi, Pakistan. In 2018, Prof. Azim was appointed as Executive Editor of Pakistan Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the official journal of Pakistan Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
QUALIFICATION | |||
Post-Doctoral Fellowship | – | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany | 2002 |
PhD | Biochemistry | H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, ICCBS, University of Karachi, Pakistan. | 2000 |
MSc | Biochemistry | Department of Biochemistry, University of Karachi, Pakistan. | 1992 |
RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS
- Biochemistry
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics
TEACHING INTERESTS
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics
- Molecular Biology
- Genomic Medicine
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Faiz Ullah

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Imran Saeed

Aman Farooq

Faisal Feroze

Muhammad Usman

Sulaman Ahmed Naz

Muhammad Tahir

Ahmed Akhtar

Nauman Hafeez Ansari

Dr. Ghazanfar Monir

Dr. Asim Imdad Wagan

Minhaj Zubair

Syeda Hira Seemab

Dr Mehtab Alam

Hasan Muneer

DR. ASMA RAUF

Dr. Zeeshan Ahmad

Syed Zaid Irshad

Muhammad Yaseen Khan

Muzammil Iqbal Shaikh

Meerab Amir

Farah Akram

Siraj Munir

Dr. Abdul Qadar Kara

Dr. Junaid Rehman Shaikh (Phd Information Systems, Australia)

Dr. Qandeel Laraib

Mr. Manzoor Ahmed Shaikh (MSc KIIT, Karachi)

Ms. Fariha Khalil (MS NUML, Pakistan)

Ms. Qudsia Bano (MA NUML, Pakistan)

Mr. Syed Sikander Shirazi

Mr. Muhammad Atif Idrees (PhD Scholar UoK, Pakistan)

Mr. Nauman Hafeez Ansari (MS SSUET, Pakistan)

Mr. Muttahir Ahmed Khan (MS MAJU, Pakistan)

Mr. Muhammad Rehan (PhD Scholar UOK, Pakistan)

Mr. Ishtiaq Ahmed Kolachi (PhD Scholar UoK, Karachi)

Mr. Aamir Shaikh (MS NEDUET, Pakistan)

Dr. Shahnillah Haider Rizvi (PhD UoK, Pakistan)

Wadeeah Qureshi

Rimsha Javed

Muntaha Mehboob

Fozia Khan

Mahnoor Iftikhar

Ms. Aman Farooq (MS MAJU, Pakistan)

Zain Noreen

Munim Ali Khan

Fouzia Naz

Farman Ali Pirzado

Syed Sarmad Ali

Mr. Muhammad Usman (MS BU, Pakistan)

Mr. Osama Ahmed Khan (PhD Scholar MAJU, Pakistan)

Aqeel Tahir

Mr. Saheer Ali (MBA SU, UK)

Mr. Muhammed Shahzeb Khan (MBA Australia)

Mr. Arif Ali (PhD Scholar MAJU, Pakistan)

Ms. Reema Tariq Mughal (ME NEDUET, Pakistan)

Mr. Muhammad Farhan Bukhari (PhD Scholar UOK, Pakistan)

Mr. Ghulam Muhammad (PhD Scholar PAF-KIET, Pakistan)

Dr. Qamar Abbas (PhD QUST, Pakistan)

Dr. Muhammad Asif Qureshi (PhD UUM, Malaysia)

Mr. Muhammad Wamiq (PhD Scholar UPM, Malaysia)

Mr. Muhammad Ibrahim Shamsi (PhD Scholar UPM, Malaysia)

Mr. Ahmer Umer (PhD Scholar FUUAST, Pakistan)

Ms. Anita (MS IU, Pakistan)

Mr. Kashif Farhat (PhD Scholar UTM, Malaysia)

Mr. Abdul Wahab Khan (MS SZABIST, Pakistan)

Mr. Nadeem Ahmed (MS MAJU, Pakistan)

Mr. Muhammad Saeed Mujahid (MS SZABIST, Pakistan)

Mr. Waqas Khalid (MS SSU, Australia)

Mr. Asim Mehboob (MS IBT, Pakistan)

Mr. Muhammad Faisal Majid (PhD Scholar MAJU, Pakistan)

Mr. Syed Ghazanfer Inam (PhD Scholar MAJU, Pakistan)

Mr. Asif Saeed Naji (MS SZABIST, Pakistan)

Mr. Javed Hussain (PhD Scholar UOK, Pakistan)

Mr. Muhammad Shujaat Saleem (PhD Scholar UOM, Malaysia)

Dr. Syed Muhammad Noaman Ahmed Shah (PhD UOO, France)

Dr. Areeb Ahmed (PhD Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey)

Dr. Liaquat Ali Thebo (PhD MUET, Pakistan)

Dr. Ghazanfar Monir

Dr. Kashif Ishaque (PhD UTM, Malaysia)

Dr. Syed Muhammad Iqbal Azimuddin (PhD UCAS, China)

Dr. Khalid MN (ICCBS-UoK, Karachi)

Dr. Tahir Islam (PhD USTC, China)

Mr. Muhammad Noman (PhD Scholar UOK, Pakistan)

Mr. Syed Arshad Hussain (PhD Scholar SZABIST, Pakistan)

Mr. Abdul Ghaffar (PhD Scholar UOK, Pakistan)

Mr. Afaq Ali Khan (PhD Scholar UOK, Pakistan)

Dr. Hina Fatima (PhD FJWU, Pakistan)

Dr. Mohammad Rizwan-ul-hassan (PhD UOK, Pakistan)

Dr. Muhammad Meraj (PhD APU, Japan)

Ms. Maryam Hanif Ghazi (MPhil Scholar)

Dr. Bushra Bilal (PhD UOK, Pakistan)

Dr. Khitab Gul (PhD UoP, Pakistan)

Dr. Huma Jawed (PhD UoK, Pakistan)

Dr.Khaliq-Ur-Rehman Raazi

Dr. Shaukat Wasi
