Raheel Qamar

BSc 1982 MSc 1985 PhD 1992

Head of Science and Environment Sector, Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), 2020 to date; Rector, COMSATS University Islamabad, 2017 to 2020; Chairman, Board of Directors, National Testing Service, 2017 to 2020; President, COMSTECH-Inter-Islamic Network on Information Technology, 2017 to 2020; Professor, (Tenured) of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, COMSATS University Islamabad, 2005; Dean, Research, Innovation and Commercialization (RIC), COMSATS University Islamabad, 2011 to 2020; In-charge (Director), Islamabad Campus, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, 2015 to 2020; Dean, Faculty of Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, 2008 to 2011; Distinguished NUST Professor (visiting), Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences & Technology, 2012-2015; In-charge (Director), Islamabad Campus, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, 2010; Chairman of Biosciences, Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, 2005 to 2008; Director Research, Shifa College of Medicine, 2003-2012; Associate Professor, Shifa College of Medicine, 2002-2005; Principal Scientific Officer, Biomedical & Genetic Engineering Division, Khan Research Labs, 1993-2003.

Tamgha-i-Imtiaz by President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 2008. Global Good Governance (3G) Award, 2021.

Member, Prime Minister of Pakistan’s National Taskforce on Science & Technology, 2019 to 2020; Convener, HEC National Committee on BPS/TTS Faculty Issues, 2018 to 2020; Member, Academic Search Committee for the appointment of Vice-Chancellors of Public Sector Universities, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2019; Member, Syndicate, Islamia University of Bahawalpur, 2018-2020; Member (Person of Eminence), Syndicate, Lahore College for Women University (LCWU), Lahore, 2019-2022; Member, Executive Board, International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), Karachi, 2014-2018; Member, Board of Governors COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, 2008-2010; Vice Chairman/Member, Ethics Committee/Institutional Review Board, Shifa International Hospital and Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad, 2012-2013; Wellcome Trust Fellow, Oxford University, UK, 1998-2001; Robert A. Welch Foundation Fellowship, North Texas University, USA, 1987-1988.

Molecular Genetics, Molecular Pathology, Enzymology, Population Genetics, Disease Genetics.