KARACHI:Prof. Dr. Farzana Shaheen, the senior most tenured professor, has been assigned the additional charge of the Director of the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi, for a period of three months.
According to the notification, the Registrar of the University of Karachi, this decision was taken on the recommendation of the ICCBS Executive Board at its September 4, 2023 meeting, said a statement on Thursday.
The ICCBS Spokesman states that Prof. Shaheen earned her M.Sc. and M. Phil. degrees from the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad in 1993 and 1995, respectively, and that she was awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Award for her M. Phil.
She earned her doctorate in chemistry from the H.E.J. Research Institute. The coveted L’OREAL-UNESCO Fellowship for Young Women in Life Sciences was given to Dr. Shaheen in 2004.
She also got the Pakistan Academy of Sciences Gold Medal in Chemistry (2012) and the OWSD Young Women Scientist Award 2011 in Malaysia. More than 90 articles from international magazines and 9 patents are the product of her study.