The research and innovation activities by Dr Murtaza Najabat Ali and his team were in the limelight yet again during this quarter, as the team worked tirelessly to achieve the aim of taking NUST and Pakistan to the new heights of success. Briefly, the team secured a research grant worth 7.4 million, published three papers…
Coronavirus disease the COVID-19 is a newly discovered infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus. As the Covid-19 pandemic spread in the world, the public were introduced to the new living behaviors that previously unheard of, at least to the general populace. A collective, global effort was started in 2020 to combat, mitigate and control…
Within the heart of NUST lies a state-of-the-art facility, devoted for the research, development and manufacturing of medical devices, where a dedicated team of biomedical scientists and engineers led by Dr. Murtaza Najabat Ali (Fig. 1) is striving for the betterment of healthcare facilities for the deprived population of Pakistan. Dr. Murtaza Najabat Ali, who…
One of the fastest evolving areas of sciences is “Genomics”, enabling the study of genes in large quantity, at once, along with technological advances such as Next Generation Sequencing making it possible to rapidly predict, diagnose, and treat diseases more precisely and personally than ever. Among the notable breakthroughs in the early 2000s, include the…
Pakistan’s health indicators severely fall short of the required levels. Per capita expenditure on health is very low in Pakistan and in the last eleven years has not increased significantly.Later in 2019 National University of Sciences and Technology amplified the healthcare sector by being the first Pakistani university to develop low-cost indigenous and implants including…
The entire world is within the grip of an unprecedented pandemic– SARS COV2 (Novel Coronavirus) – and scientists and researchers are sparing no effort to establish diagnostics, treatments, immunity boosters and vaccines to fight off this deadly virus. The virology and immunology experts at the National University of Sciences and Technology, Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied…
