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Dr. Muhammad Tahir

  /  Dr. Muhammad Tahir
Assistant Professor, Biotechnology
Specialization:

Proteomics


Email: muhammadtahir@cuiatd.edu.pk
Phone: +92-992-383591-5

Academics/ Degrees:

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

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

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

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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.

 
Research Interests
  •         Proteomics and post-translational modifications
    analysis
  •         Clinical Biomarkers Discovery
  •        Neutrophil Biology
  •          Ischemia Biology
  •          Cancer

 

 

 

 

 
Awards
  •     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.

 

 

 

 
Research Projects
 
  •          Quantitative characterization of post-translationally modified proteins
    in body fluids for advanced biomarker discovery. Funded by
    CNPq – Ciência Sem Fronteiras – Brazil, February/ 2016
    – January/2017 (Process No. 202213/2015-3). (~ R$ 170,000.00).