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I belongs to Bahawalpur and after completion of my basic studies at my home town, I got my degrees of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and M.Sc. (Hons.) Veterinary Anatomy at University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF). During each year of DVM degree at UAF, I got university merit scholarship by maintaining my position among the top 10 students of the class. Just about a month, after completion of my DVM, when I started my M.Sc. (Hons.) Veterinary Anatomy, I was selected as a lecturer in the department to teach the classes of Veterinary Anatomy and Histology. During this period, I also served as a member of Board of Studies of the department, tutor (Tutorial Group-39) and Co-advisor for DVM students (Session 2007-2008).

After completion of my M.Sc. (Hons.), I joined The Islamia University of Bahawalpur at my home town as a lecturer of Anatomy and Histology. Meanwhile, I got the funding for MS leading to PhD studies in France under Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) scholarship program. I successfully completed the French language course of five months at Alliance Française, Faisalabad and of two months at Catholique Insitute de Paris. I did my Master-2 Research - Reproduction and Development at the University of Denis DiderotParis-7 with research work performed at University of Pierre et Marie Curie Paris-6. I was working on the mechanism of nuclear positioning and the role of microtubules organizing centers (MTOCs) in spindle formation in the prophase-arrested oocytes of mouse. Then, I joined Institute de Cancerology, Gustave Roussy at Villejuif (France) and obtained my PhD degree with grade of “très honorable avec félicitations de jury; much honorable with congratulations of the jury” in the thesis entitled: “Effects of siRNA-squalene nanoparticles on RET/PTCs junction oncogenes in papillary thyroid carcinoma: from molecular and cellular studies to preclinical investigations”. In the current study, I targeted the most frequent chromosomal rearrangements (RET/PTC1 and RET/PTC3) found in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with specifically designed small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) protected by squalene (SQ) nanoparticles (NPs). These findings recommended the use of siRNAs-SQ NPs as a treatment for patients affected by PTC expressing RET/PTCs junction oncogenes in the phase-1 clinical trials.

After completion of my higher studies, I came back to Pakistan and joined The Islamia University of Bahawalpur as Assistant Professor under HEC program Interim Placement for Fresh PhDs (IPFP). After successful completion of one more year on contract, currently I am working as Assistant Professor on Tenure Track System (TTS) in the Department of Anatomy and Histology, FV&AS. I have co-supervised more than 25 post-graduate and several under-graduate students and published 52 research papers of 100.795 impact factor and 505 citations. My future direction is to transfer the obtained knowledge and the recent cell and molecular biological techniques to the young scientists and to prepare them to integrate in the various research institutions.