Dr. Babar is an interdisciplinary researcher focused on bridging the gap between basic, applied and clinical sciences. Trained as a clinical pharmacist during his Pharm. D. program, he later equipped himself with research tools of pharmacology, virology and microbiology, medicinal chemistry, plant biotechnology, materials engineering and pharmacoinformatic during his post- graduate and postdoctoral training years at National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan), Stanford University School of Medicine (USA) and Johns Hopkins University (USA). Owing to his diverse training and experience, his research interests incorporate all the areas of drug discovery and development process. Dr. Babar has been trained in curriculum design and development, instructional and assessment strategies and evaluation. He holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Clinical Education from The University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK) and is certified in Medical Education (Assessment) by the Association for Medical Education in Europe (Dundee, UK). He has been involved in the designing, development, implementation and monitoring of curricula of various degree programs including Doctor of Pharmacy (conventional and Integrated Contextual Modular Curriculum), BS Biosciences (Microbiology and Biotechnology), BS Biomedical Engineering, MPhil Clinical Pharmacy Practice, MPhil Pharmacology, MS Applied Biosciences and PhD Pharmacy. Based on his contribution to the academic development of SCPS and pedagogical methods, he was awarded the best University Teacher Award as per HEC criteria. Dr Babar has contributed to more than 40 scientific manuscripts published in journals and books with publishers of international repute including Nature Publishing Group, Springer, Elsevier and John Wiley & Sons. He is a registered member/ affiliate of several professional bodies. He also serves as an editorial board member and examiner at many national and international functionalities

Dr. Siddiqui is an academician and researcher. During her research, she skilled in Virology, Microbiology and Molecular biology research tools. She was awarded Merit Fellowship in M.Phil. (Biotechnology) by Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad and completed PhD (Biosciences) under HEC Indigenous Scholarship at COMSATS University, Islamabad. During her PhD, she was a visiting researcher at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and Bacterial Pathogenesis Group, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, UK under British Council (INSPIRE Programme). She has participated as organizer and presenter in different international conferences. She has obtained course certifications from Harvard University, USA and Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK. She is an Associate Member of Microbiology Society, UK Membership No: C026268 and Member, American Society of Microbiology Member ID: 200214478. Dr. Siddiqui has published 16 original research articles in international journals. She has 8 years of teaching, research and administrative experience. During her professional career, besides teaching undergraduate and graduate courses of Microbiology and Biotechnology, she was involved in students counselling and curriculum designing. She has supervised 19 undergraduate and 12 graduate research students’ theses to date. She is an HEC Approved PhD Supervisor since April, 2019. Her research interests are Molecular Microbiology, Antimicrobial Resistance, Nanotechnology and Probiotics.

Dr. Shabana Bibi is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biosciences, Shifa Tameere-Milat University, Islamabad, Pakistan. She received the three consecutive Otsuka-Toshimi Scholarship Foundation awards (Apr 2014 – Apr 2017-03) to pursue her doctoral degree in Bioinformatics from Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan. She also received “Biodiversity Survey, Monitoring, and Assessment project of Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China (June 2019–June 2020)” and “The Joint fund key project of Yunnan university-Technology Department, Yunnan University, China (Sept 2019 –Sept 2020)” for her postdoctoral research. Her postdoctoral research includes the contribution to the traditional Chinese medicine grand research project entitled “Computer-aided natural drug design based on Cordyceps genome and transcriptome”. She also served as Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. She welcomes international research collaboration. Therefore, she has also contributed to various ongoing Bioinformatics research projects with international researchers as a team leader in research areas including genomics, proteomics, and in silico drug design for diabetes mellitus, cancers, and COVID-19. Furthermore, various contributions were presented at international conferences, developed posters, and networked with scientific research leaders. She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed full-length research articles (www.researchgate.net/profile/ShabanaBibi) and secured more than 100 impact factors from her publications. She is currently editing five special issues in the journals including Frontiers in Genetics, Frontiers in Genome Editing, Current Pharmaceutical Design, Phytomedicine, and Natural Product Communications. Major research interests include natural products, computer-aided drug design and OMICS-based research.

Dr. Faouzia Tanveer Mirza is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biosciences, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad. She holds an M.Phil and a PhD in Biotechnology from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. During her PhD, she worked with marine microbes to explore their biosynthetic potential to produce bioactive natural products. She was also a visiting researcher at Institute for Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia on an International Fellowship from Higher Education Commission (HEC). Her current research interests include microbial natural products, microbial metabolomics and plant microbe interaction. She has previously worked as Visiting Lecturer at Abasyn University (Islamabad campus), as Administrative and Financial Project Assistant in US National Academy of Sciences (US-NAS) project (One-Health Fellowships) at Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS) and as a Research Associate in HEC funded project (Biocontrol through plant associated bacteria) at Quaid-I-Azam University. She has presented her research work at international conferences held in Dubai (UAE), Amman (Jordan) and Bangkok (Thailand) and published 9 research articles in impact factor journals and 4 book chapters. Besides that, she has undertaken national and international trainings, facilitated in organizing workshops at PAS and produced key publications to promote biosafety/biosecurity/bioethics in life sciences. One of her papers received an honorable mention for proposing a multi-dimensional management strategy to improve biosecurity in the low resource countries in a biosecurity competition (2019) held by NextGen Global Health Security (GHS) Network. She is a member of Pakistan Biological Safety Association (PBSA) and GHS NextGen Network as well as an alumnus of international cultural exchange program conducted by Japan International Cooperation Centre (JICE).

Miss Gill is serving as a lecturer in Department of Biosciences, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad. She has done her MS in Applied Biosciences with the specialization in Healthcare Biotechnology from National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad in 2014. Her MS research project was titled as “Therapeutic Significance of Interleukin 12 (IL-12) on rheumatoid Arthritis in Pakistani Population” After completion of her studies she has served at different institutes of high prestige for teaching and research purposes. Having rich academic background in pharmacogenetics her areas of interest are to study molecular basis of genetic diseases and treat them with biomaterials which finally lead to personalized biological medicine and drug discovery. Her expertise is in human, animal and plant DNA extraction (blood and tissue samples) as well as development and optimization of new protocols as per required for genotyping and other in vivo, in vitro studies for genetic diseases.

Mr. Rashid is serving as an Instructor in the Biosciences Department of Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad. He did his BS in Biotechnology in 2019 from Bahaudin Zakariya University, Multan. He has completed his MS in Molecular Genetics in 2022 from COMSATS University, Islamabad. His MS research project was titled as “Association of Telomere Length in Metabolic Syndrome”. During his academic era, he got expertise in Plant Biotechnology and Industrial Biotechnology. He got a certificate from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Emerging Respiratory Viruses, including COVID-19. He worked as a research assistant in the Biochemistry Laboratory at Shifa College of Medicine where he received hands-on training on systematic review and various molecular analysis techniques, i.e., DNA & RNA Extraction from Blood, cDNA Synthesis, conventional and real-time PCR, and primer designing using different bioinformatics tools.

She is serving as an Instructor in the Department of Biosciences, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University Islamabad. She has done MS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from COMSATS University Islamabad in 2021 on the project entitled “Expression analysis of miRNAs and their targeted genes in Metabolic Syndrome patients”. She has won the Master’s Scotland Pakistan Government Scholarship for Young Women and Girls 2019-2020 by British Council. She has an experience in research laboratories and hospitals. She has worked as a research scholar at Shifa College of Medicine and Shifa International Hospital and Intern in the Pathology Department, at Holy Family Hospital Rawalpindi. She worked as a Research Associate (R.A) in PINSAT, Preston University Islamabad for a Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS) research project entitled “Study of therapeutic targeting of tumor necrosis factor-alpha in lymphocytes using Nanoparticles for limiting Cardiovascular diseases”. She worked in Research and Development (R&D) Lab at Preston University Islamabad and Nano medicine & Nanotheranostic research Lab in NILOP. She got online certificates on Good Clinical Practice (GCP) by NIDA clinical trial networks, Tackling the novel coronavirus by London School of Hygiene & UK public health support team, and Genes and the Human condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology) by Coursera. She has expertise in Molecular Biology, Serology and Bioinformatics techniques, ELISA Reader, Quest, BLAST, and FASTA. She has written an article as a blog on Preventive measures for COVID-19 Immunization on techviber website.