Abdul Rauf Shakoori

University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan (Government College, Lahore): M.Sc., 1962; University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, West Germany: D.Sc. (Dr. rer.nat.), 1972.

Director, School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore (2002-2020); Director (Honorary), Center of Biotechnology Research, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China (2021-2024); Co-coordinator of Center for Advanced Studies in Molecular Biology (1981-84), Co-Director, Centre for Advanced Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab (1984-1991); Associate Secretary General, Pakistan Academy of Sciences ( 2018-2020, 2024-continuing); Patron in Chief, Center of Cancer Research, University of the Punjab: (2019-2024); President, Zoological Society of Pakistan (2002-2008, 2013-continuing); HEC’s Distinguished National Professor (2005 to date); Meritorious Professor, University of the Punjab 2000); Professor Emeritus, University of the Punjab (2010 to date); Visiting Professor of Cell Biology, U Mass Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA (1989-2012); University of Marburg, Germany (1996), Kings College London (1997), University of Essex, Colchester (1999); King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA, (2014-2016); Lahore University of Management Sciences (2007-2010); Professor, Department of Zoology, University of the Punjab (1987-2002), University of Central Punjab (2019); Chairman, Department of Zoology (1996-1999,2002), Chairman, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics (200-2002), University of the Punjab, Lahore; Member, Board of Directors and Executive Council, Punjab Education Foundation (2016-2020); Member of Board of Governors and Chairman Apex Committee, Punjab Curriculum & Textbook Board (2015-2019); Chairman, Advisory Committee and Apex Academic Committee of Urdu Science Board, Lahore (2015-2018); Consultant, Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA) Inc. Pakistan, Institutional Excellence Project (IEP), Islamabad (1991.

Awarded President of Pakistan’s highest Academic Award Aizaz-i-Kamal (1996); Civil Award of Government of Pakistan Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (1999); ECO Award 2012 in the field of Science and Technology by Economic Cooperation Organization during Summit Meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan on October 16, 2012; Roll of Honours, Government College, Lahore (1962); Awarded Senior Fulbright Fellowship ( 1992, 1993), Senior Fellowship of Deutsche Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) (1996), Royal Society of United Kingdom Fellowship (1998), received Award of Honour by Zoological Society of Pakistan and Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (1995), Zoologist of the Year Award (1996), Outstanding Zoologists Award of Honour by Zoological Society of Pakistan (1997), Research Productivity Allowance of PCST (2002-2008, 2010, 2012, 2013), rated among the top Biologists (1999-2011), Top Zoologist (2004-2011) and Top Most Productive Scientists in Biological Sciences (2013), Distinguished National Professor (2005), Professor Emeritus (2010), Distinguished Scientist of the Year by Pakistan Academy of Sciences in 2011, Best Performance Award by Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2012). Declared among the top 2% researchers world-wide 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 by the team of scientists from Stanford University, USA; rated among the top 0.5% Top Scholars by California-based Company ScholarGPS (ScholarGPS.com). Chief Editor, Pakistan Journal Zoology; Academic Editor, PLoS ONE

Elected Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences (1991), Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for Developing World (2004), Fellow Islamic World Academy of Science (2024); Fellow Zoological Society of Pakistan (1969-till date); Academician, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shandong, China (2019); Fellow New York Academy of Sciences (1993-1994); Full Membership of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society (2023).

Cell and Molecular Biology, Gene Expression, Osteogenesis, Cancer Biology with particular reference to Metastasis, Heavy metal toxicology with particular reference to metallothionein and mechanism of bioremediation, Pesticide Toxicology and Physiology, Search for new Bioinsecticides.