Anwar-ul-Hassan Gilani

University of Agriculture, Faisalabad: B.Sc. (Hons.) 1976, M.Sc. (Hon.), 1978; University of Sydney, Australia: PhD, 1985.

Consultant (PR & I) & In-charge Quality Assurance, Higher Education Commission, Islamabad, Vice Chancellor, University of Haripur, 2019-22; Chairman, Pakistan Council for Science & Technology, 2015-2018; Tandem Dean, Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Ethiopia, 2013-14; Distinguished National Professor, Higher Education Commission, 2004 to date; Pakistan Academy of Medical Sciences: Secretary General, 1999-2002, Scientific Secretary, 2002-2009; International Foundation for Science, Sweden: Scientific Advisor, 2000 to date; World Health Organization, Geneva: Advisor on Essential Medicine, 2006-2010; The Aga Khan University, Karachi: Chairman, Board of Graduate Studies, 2008-2009; Vice Chair, Research and Graduate Studies, 2008-2013, Director, PhD Program in Health Sciences, 2008-2013; Professor of Pharmacology, 1997 to 2019; Associate Professor, 1992-97; Assistant Professor, 1988-92; Senior Instructor, 1986-88; Lecturer, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 1979-86.

Merit scholarship, from primary school to PhD; Boehringer International Research Award-1988 (Germany); National Book Foundation Research Awards, Ministry of Education, 1991 and 1994; Salam Prize in Biology, TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences, 1992; Ibn-Al-Hayatham Prize in Biological Sciences, 1995; Outstanding Teacher Award by the Aga Khan University, 1996; Aga Hassan Abedi Gold Medal in Medical Sciences by Pakistan Academy of Sciences, 1999; Presidents Award for Pride of Performance, 2000; Dr. Israr-ul-Haq Award, Alumni Association of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad; Sitara-i-Imtiaz by President of Pakistan, 2004; Professorship, Pakistan Academy of Medical Sciences, 2004; Life-Time Academic Achievement Award by the Higher Education Commission, Government of Pakistan, 2011; Dr Z.A. Hashmi R&D Gold Medal, Pakistan Science Foundation, 2014; Hilali-I-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan, Government of Pakistan.

Fellow, TWAS-The World Academy of the Sciences; Fellow, Pakistan Academy of Medical Sciences; Fellow, Ibn-Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences; Board Member, International Society of Ethnopharmacology; Member, Drug Registration Board, Ministry of Health, 1999-2002; WHO Advisor on Traditional Medicine and Essential Medicine; Member, British Pharmacological Society, Biochemical Society (London); World Innovation Foundation; International Society for Medicinal Plant Research (Germany), International Society of Pharmaco-economics and Outcome Research (Founding President, Pakistan Chapter), Pakistan Hypertension League, Pakistan Nutrition and Dietetic Society.

STI Policy, Natural Products Pharmacology with special interest on Medicinal Value of Food and Dietary Supplements (antihypertensive, antidyslipidemic, hepatoprotective, anti-inflammatory, antiurolithic, antiasthmatic, cardiotonic, laxative, antidiarrhoeal, prokinetics, antioxidant and anti-Alzheimer’s disease) and Translational Research in metabolic and cardiovascular studies.