The name of Dr Sheikh Ajaz Rasool has been approved by the President of Pakistan for the Presidential Award ie Izaz-i-Kamal for the year 2007, said a press release. The federal education minister would confer the Presidential Award on behalf of the President of Pakistan soon in Islamabad.
Dr Sheikh Ajaz Rasool, born on February 28, 1947, got his MSc (microbiology) degree from the University of Karachi in 1968; PhD (Bacterial-Molecular Genetics) from Moscow State University in 1976 (under Pak-Russia Educational Programme), and did his post-doctoral research at the University of Essex, UK, in 1990 (sponsored by the British Council).
He has an experience of teaching and research of 39 years at the Department of Microbiology, University of Karachi. He retired as dean, Faculty of Science, on February 27, 2007.
He has vast experience of teaching and research supervision in microbiology at various universities, including Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur; Sindh University, Jamshoro; Jinnah University for Women, Karachi and Federal University at Karachi. He has won a number of prestigious awards
Dr Rasool has been well-known as a productive researcher/scientist in his field of specialisation and has been the chief/principal investigator of 20 research projects funded by International (Third World Academy of Sciences, Italy; ONR-USA; ALP-PARC-USA, WWF) and National Funding Agencies (UGC/HEC; Karachi University, PAEC; NSRDB & PSF).
He has about 105 publication, including books, monographs, manuals printed by HEC and others on the syllabi in relevance to his credit. His name resume has been included in the Productive Scientists Book by PCST (2005) and Margulie's WHO'S is WHO in Asia (2006). Dr Rasool contributed towards therapeutic intervention, including HIV/AIDS-related herbal drugs, protein antibiotics - bacteriocins.-PR