Health Biotechnology

Muhammad Tahir

Designation: Assistant Professor
Email: muhammadtahir@cuiatd.edu.pk
Phone No. : N/A
Role: Faculty
Research Interests: Reproductive Biology

Academics/ Degrees

·         PhD, Biological Sciences (Molecular Biology), Institute of Biological Sciences (IB) – University of Brasilia, Brasilia – DF, Brazil, 2014.

·         MPhil, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan, 2009.

·         MSc, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan, 2007.

·         BSc, Biological Sciences, Islamia College Peshawar, 2004.

Profile/Bio

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, since Apr. 2022.
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Biological Sciences (IB), University of Brasilia, Brazil, Jul. 2021 – Apr. 2022.
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Dec. 2019 – Jun. 2021.
  •  Postdoctoral fellow - Thermo Fisher Scientific, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Dec. 2017 – Nov. 2019.

·  Postdoctoral fellow, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, (via CNPq – Science without border program, Brazil), Feb. 2016 - Nov. 2017.

· Research associate, Faculty of Animal Biology, University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil, Sep. 2014 - Jan. 2016.

Awards/ Appreciations

  •     Travel grant award, Lundbeck Foundation Denmark, 2019.
  •         Postdoctoral fellowship award - CNPq – Ciência Sem Fronteiras – Brazil, 2016 – 2017.
  •         Postdoctoral fellowship award CNPq – DTI-A – Brazil, 2014 – 2016.
  •         PhD fellowship, TWAS – CNPq, Brazil, 2010 – 2014.
  •          Best academic performance scholarship award, Department of Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan, 2008.