Speakers

Yasir Waheed

Place of Birth : Pakistan
Position : Director Office of Research, Innovation & Commercialization (ORIC) at Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University Islamabad, Pakistan
Field of study : Virology, Clinical Research, Diagnostics, and Molecular Biology

Dr. Yasir Waheed is working as the Director Office of Research, Innovation, and Commercialization (ORIC) at Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University (SZABMU), Islamabad, Pakistan. SZABMU is a major public sector medical university in the capital city of Pakistan and has over 22 Medical, Dental, Rehab, Nursing, and Lab Technology Colleges/Institutes under its umbrella. Dr. Yasir’s area of expertise is medical research, including virology, clinical research, and diagnostics. He has been included in the list of the top 2% highly cited researchers worldwide in the last three consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022). Dr. Yasir has 70,000 citations in Google Scholar and 46,000 citations in Scopus. He is a member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, which is a pool of the highest scientific talent in Pakistan. Dr. Yasir has published extensive research on COVID-19, including the response of different drugs/therapeutics in clinical settings including Steroids, Remdesivir, Anticoagulants, Plasmapheresis, etc. He has also published on genetic changes in different COVID-19 variants, inhibitor screening, and vaccine design. Dr. Yasir also has extensive research experience on Hepatitis including molecular biology, public health, drug response, screening high-risk population groups, and hepatitis elimination.

Experiences

12022- Present: Director Office of Research, Innovation & Commercialization (ORIC) at Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University Islamabad, Pakistan 2018-2022: Associate Professor, Foundation University Islamabad, Pakistan 2014-2018: Assistant Professor, Foundation University Islamabad, Pakistan 2010-2014: Demonstrator, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan