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UK honour for UoH prof
Dr Niyaz Ahmed, Head of the Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been admitted as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), United Kingdom (UK). The RSC is a 170 year old professional body that works for academic and research excellence in chemical sciences and their applications.
Dr Niyaz Ahmed is elected Fellow of the Royal Society of chemistry
Hyderabad: Dr Niyaz Ahmed, Head of the Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been admitted as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), United Kingdom (UK). The RSC is a 170 year old professional body that works for academic and research excellence in chemical sciences and their applications.
The election as fellow of the RSC, considered as a distinct academic honour, follows a rigorous peer recommendation process and is based on several criteria emphasizing that the nominee occupied a position of authority in his/her area of research with a high level of autonomy in work and communication and that he/she directed and supervised the research of professional scientists.
Dr Ahmed has been the recipient of the National Bioscience Award and he directs a team of PhD scholars and post doctoral fellows at UoH. He is known in the area of infectious disease epidemiology and pathogen biology including studies on multiple drug resistance in pathogenic bacteria such as those causing TB and diarrheal diseases. Dr Ahmed has also contributed to the area of identification and biochemical characterisation of novel proteins from different bacteria while establishing their roles in disease mechanisms.
