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Jamia’s Mohammad Zahid Ashraf gets Indian Council of Medical Research Award

NEW DELHI :

Jamia Millia Islamia’s Professor Mohammad Zahid Ashraf has been honoured with prestigious Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) award for research on oxygen regulation.

Prof. Mohammad Zahid Ashraf receives Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize, an award instituted by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

Mohammad Zahid Ashraf, professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Millia Islamia(JMI) has been awarded the prestigious Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize, an award instituted by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The prize was given by Union Health Minister, Harsh Vardhan yesterday in recognition of Prof. Ashraf’s research excellence.

Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize is one of the earliest instituted awards of the ICMR in the year 1953 for the significant research contributions in the field of biomedical sciences.

What was Prof Ashraf’s research famous for?

Prof. Ashraf’s lab has been instrumental in understanding the role of low oxygen due to high altitude in the development of cardiovascular disorders including blood clotting.

The significance of research of cellular reactions in response to low oxygen could be analyzed from the fact that this year’s Nobel Prize committee for physiology or medicine recognized the potential of the discovery of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability and jointly awarded the three scientists for their landmark discoveries in this field. Oxygen is required for the process of oxidation that produces energy. Therefore, its short supply might result in lung damage, brain dysfunction, heart problems and many more.

” Prof. Ashraf’s research has provided an insight into the role of oxygen-regulated mechanisms behind blood clotting disorders and demonstrated the detrimental effects of low oxygen availability at high altitude.

About Mohammad Zahid Ashraf

Dr Ashraf is Fellow of both National Academy of Sciences and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is also the recipient of prestigious DBT’s S Ramachandran-National Biosciences Award 2018. He is currently holding the position of Director (Academics) in the university.

Prior to his joining at JMI, he was Head of Genomics Division at Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Delhi.

source: http://www.indiatoday.in / India Today / Home> News> Education> Today> News / by India Today Web Desk / October 17th, 2019

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September 16, 2023UncategorizedDr Ghazanfar Ali, Ghazanfar Ali, Maarifur Rahman, Mirza Samar Baig, Mohammad Ifran, Mohammad Zahid, Mohd Qaisar Alam, Nargis Jahan, Nihaal Nazim, Omar Farook Khatani, Padma Shri Prof. Akhtarul Wasey, Prof Akhtarul Wasey - President - Maulana Azad University - Jodhpur, Prof Mirza Samar Baig, Prof Mohammad Zahid, Prof Nargis Jahan, Prof Shirin Musavi, Prof. Akhtarul Wasey, Prof.Akhtarul Wasey-Vice Chancelor-Maulana Azad University-Jodhpur, Raees Hasan, Ramzan Ali, S Hasan Qaid, Shahroz Alam, Shirin Musavi, Syed Abdul Moinuddinmpositiveone@gmail.com

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OMAR FAROOK KHATANI, an officer of M.P. state administrative service, has been elected president of the state administrative officers association by a large margin in the elections held in Bhopal recently. The cadre strength of this association is 700 consisting of additional, joint and deputy collectors. Khatani is presently posted as chief executive officer, M.P. Wakf Board Bhopal. He has held important portfolios during his career including secretary, M.P. state Minorities Commission.

PROF NARGIS JAHAN, who is associated with the department of Persian in Delhi University for a long time, has now been appointed head of the Persian department in this University. She also served as teacher in Delhi’s Zakir Husain College, Kamla Nehru College and Saint Stephen’s College. She has authored many books including Human Right in Urdu Literature, Sa’di-e Hind’ (English) Farsi Vyakaran aur Anuwaad’ (Hindi).

PROF MIRZA SAMAR BAIG presently incharge of the department of political science at Aligarh Muslim University has been appointed as Member Incharge of the Department of Public Relations by AMU vice chancellor in place of Dr Faizan Mustafa who was recently appointed as Registrar of this university. Dr Samar Baig is a prominent writer whose research articles on politics are published in important Indian and foreign journals. During the cold war period he had worked as research analyst on India’s foreign policy towards USA and USSR.

PROF SHIRIN MUSAVI, Head of Department of History in Aligarh Muslim University, has been appointed by the Union ministry of human resources development as a Member of Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) in consideration of her valuable services and contribution in the filed of history. She will be the Member of ICHR for 3 years.

Aligarh Muslim University has conferred PhD and M Phil degrees on the following students:
PhD: RAEES HASAN (Hindi), NIHAAL NAZIM (Urdu), MOHAMMAD IRFAN (Theology), SHAHROZ ALAM, MOHD QAISAR ALAM and S HASAN QAID (Economics) and MA’ARIFUR RAHMAN (Sanskrit).
M.Phil: (Ms) SARITA SHARMA and SYED ABDUL MOINUDDIN (Mathematics).

Well-known fiction writer, poet and educationist, DR GHAZANFAR ALI, who is also the principal of Urdu Teaching and Research Centre, Lucknow has been entrusted with the additional charge of director of National Council for the Promotion of Sindhi Language by the Union ministry of human resources development. He has taken over the charge of his new assignment in the Council’s head office in Vadodra, (Baroda).

RAMZAN ALI appears to have set up a record in hair-cut of 210 women by continuously standing and working for 24 hours. Though his name is already entered three times in Limca Book of Records for hair cutting, this time he wants to get his name entered in Guinness Book of World Records for his feat of 210 haircuts in 24 hours. It is to be seen if his ambition is fulfilled and Guinness Book acknowledges it.

PROF AKHTARUL WASEY, renowned scholar of Islam who is also Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Languages and director of Zakir Husain Institute of Islamic Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi was unanimously elected president of the Managing Committee of Ajmer’s Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti’s Dargah. He is associated with the Dargah Committee since 1995 as its member. Syed Abdul Bari was elected vice president of the Dargah Committee.

GHULAM NABI KHAYAL, Sahitya Akademi award-winning veteran Kashmiri writer and journalist, was elected as the President of Kashmir Writers Association. Amin Kamil (Padma Shree) and Prof G N Firaq (Sahitya Akademi awardee) were elected as patrons of the Association.

The Governor of Uttar Pradesh, in his capacity as Chancellor of Agra University, has nominated

PROFESSOR MOHAMMAD ZAHID of the Department of Urdu, Aligarh Muslim University as member of the Executive Council of Dr BR Ambedkar University, Agra. Dr. Zahid has had a brilliant academic record. He has authored a number of books and research papers. He also served as a member of the Academic Council of AMU. «

source: http://www.milligazette.com / The Milli Gazette / Home> Milli Gazette Online / 16-31 May 2005