{"id":1539,"date":"2023-08-02T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T05:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cemb.edu.pk\/wp\/?page_id=1539"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:11:38","slug":"fp-prof-dr-moazur-rahman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cemb.edu.pk\/?page_id=1539","title":{"rendered":"Prof Dr Moazur Rahman"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMoazur Rahman has completed MSc in Chemistry from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, MPhil (Biotechnology) from NIBGE Faisalabad\/Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, and PhD (Molecular Membrane\/Structural Biology) from the University of Leeds, UK. From 2012-2013, he worked as Fulbright Fellow at the Harvard Medical School, Boston. Before joining as Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab (http:\/\/pu.edu.pk\/faculty\/description\/2357\/Prof-Dr-Moazur-Rahman.html) and Director at the Center for Excellence in Molecular Biology, Prof. Rahman headed the structural biology research at National Institute for Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad, and developed state-of-the-art structural biology laboratory which is among the leading laboratories in Pakistan (http:\/\/www.nibge.org\/Profile.aspx?PID=56).\n\nProf. Rahman has published many research articles in international peer reviewed journals on structure and function of diverse membrane- and viral proteins, highlighting important features of these proteins which render them attractive for use as diagnostic antigens or as drug- and vaccine targets. He has also filed patents in the US\/Pakistan on development of diagnostic tools for infectious bursal disease in poultry. On applied fronts, for the first time in Pakistan, he has successfully developed recombinant vaccines and diagnostic tools for poultry infectious bursal disease virus and Fowl adenovirus. He has also identified and characterized a multidrug resistance pump, STY4874, in local isolates of Salmonella Typhi to combat antimicrobial resistance in typhoid patients.\n\nTo strengthen research in the fields of protein structural biology, vaccine development and disease diagnostics, he has won 3 international and 15 national competitive research grants, amounting to > 312 million PKR from diverse funding agencies such as ICGEB (Italy), IAEA (Austria), ALP-PARC (Pakistan), PSF (Pakistan), HEC (Pakistan). Moreover, he has established collaborations with leading research groups in China, Denmark, Australia, UK, Italy, USA, and with the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle-East (SESAME) facility, Jordan, in the field of protein crystallography, vaccine development and disease diagnostics. To train the human resource in the field of structural biology, he has organized\/co-organized 4 international workshops on \u2018\u2018X-ray Crystallography in Structural Biology and Modeling\/Simulation\u2019\u2019 in Pakistan, and Prof. Rahman is an active member of the National Committee of Crystallography \/ IUCr Adhering Body, Pakistan. He has also served as a member of the Technical Committee of PAEC-International Nathiagali Summer Colleges (2016 to 2017, 2020).\n\nDuring his career, Prof. Rahman has won several research and fellowship awards (Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) PhD Scholarship award (2002), IsDB excellent leadership award (2009), Fulbright Postdoctoral fellowship (2012), SESAME and IAEA Fellowship awards (2010, 2011, 2015 and 2017), PAEC-NIBGE Gold Medal (2014), Research Productivity awards by the Government of Pakistan (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015), and Pakistan Academy of Sciences (Biotechnology) ZKS-Gold Medal award (2018). Moreover, Prof. Rahman is a member of the scientific expert panels of IsDB, Fulbright-USEFP, HEC, MoPET, several national Universities and a number of international scientific journals, and is a visiting faculty member of HEJ, Karachi.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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