Advance Research In Cancer Materials And Neuroscience (Arcman)

Group Members

• Dr Nosheen Fatima
• Dr Aneeqa Noor
• Dr Adeeb Shehzad
• Dr Asim Waris
• Dr Saima Zafar
• Dr Amer Sohail Kashif
• Dr Ahmed Fuwad

External Members

• Dr Earnest Kmavuako (KCL)
• Dr Naveed Ahmed  (QAU)
• Dr Aneela Javed  (ASAB)
• Dr Nasir Mehmood Ahmed (SCME)
• Dr Abida Raza (NILOP)
• Dr Sohail aNaz (NCP)
• Dr Imran Khan Niazi (NZ Cyro)
• Dr Hamid Merchant (UK)
• Dr Jean-Marie Laplace (France)
• Prof. Dr. Inga Zerr, UMG, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Isidro Ferrer, UB, Spain
• Dr Olivier Andreoletti, ENVT, France
• Prof. Dr. Khalid Iqbal, IBR, USA.
• Dr. Mohsin Shafiq. UKE, Germany
• Dr Lesley Cheng Sim, LTU, Australia
• Dr Saba Khaliq, UHS, Pakistan
• Dr. Matthias Schmidt, UMG, Germany
• Dr. Arsalan Ahmed, Shifa, Pakistan.
• Dr Mazhar Badshah PIMS, Pakistan.
• Dr. Oleksandr Yagensky, MPI, Germany
• Kevin Engelhart, university of New Brunswick  Fredericton, Canada
• Mads jochumsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Usman Rashid, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Research Areas

• Intelligent Stents and Grafts for the treatment of vascular /non-vascular cardiac and cancer diseases. Anisotropic Bone stent device for the healing of long bone fractures
• Techniques to improve learning through motor skill acquisition in normal subjects and maximization of motor recovery in stroke patients
• Internal Fixation device for spinal and long bone fracture healing
• Research on interaction of surgical tools with bone tissue, which involves Ultrasonically-assisted cutting for minimal invasive orthopedic surgeries and the development of thermo-mechanical finite element model of bone cutting
• Brain rehabilitation and neuro-prosthetic systems
• Development of Drug Delivery Systems for the treatment of infectious disease
• Nanomedicine approach for cancer treatment
• Drug development to combat multidrug resistance
• Natural Product research
• Smart Bandage having Drug Dispensation and Tunable Porosity System for effective wound healing management
• 3D porous scaffolds for both soft and hard (bone) tissue guided tissue remodeling/repair
• Nano-fibers for in vivo drug delivery systems and in Regenerative medicine
• Soft Tissue Replacement / Augmentation device
• Treatment modalities for the prevention of cancer by targeting survival signaling, radioresistance and chemoreistance genes
• Visual neuroscience
• Proteomics/METABOLOMICS for translational medicine and therapeutics of neurodegenerative diseases.
• In-vitro protein amplification systems for the detection of misfolded proteins in cerebrospinal fluid/saliva/urine and blood of human neurodegenerative diseases
• Therapeutic strategy for vascular dementia leading to stroke in Pakistani population
• Impact of post-translational modifications by regulating the function and translocation of proteins involved in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, degenerative dementia, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) diseases.
• Apoe genotyping for Alzheimer’s diseases and other dementias.
• Tauopathies and synucleinopathies.
• Prion-o-pathies in Pakistani population.
• Establishment of transgenic mouse models for neurodegenerative diseases.
• Emergence and implementation of digital-biomarkers for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

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