The person that inspires me to get up and go would be Dr. Zahra Asan. She is a molecular pathologist who works as a consultant at Agha Khan University Hospital and in the Department of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She completed her BSc honours in biochemistry from Imperial College London and went on to get a PhD in molecular microbiology from St. Mary’s Medical School which is also affiliated with the Imperial College and that too in 1993. So what I love about her is how progressive she is I mean for a woman to get a PhD and especially from a South Asian country and in the 90s from Europe was a very big deal and also that she was one of the first scientists who introduced the COVID vaccine who basically introduced the COVID vaccine for the Pakistan strain and also was among the group of scientists who elucidated the mechanism mechanistic differences among the Wuhan strain between the Wuhan strain and the Pakistan strain of COVID-19. Apart from this she is among the two molecular pathologists in Pakistan who do not have a medical training group are not qualified and will be BS but have a BSc honours and a master’s and a PhD in molecular pathology or biochemistry and also that she’s affiliated with my field. I also love her work I also try to take her workshops and also her lectures. She came to my Shalemar Medical College and gave a lecture on PCR diagnostics and the way she told that before that I only knew the PCRs or diagnosed you know different viruses but she took a lot of different applications of PCR for example forensic DNA fingerprinting and infectious disease diagnostics cancer diagnostics cardiac markers how PCRs could be calibrated to diagnose different diseases and it was awesome.
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The person that inspires me to get up and go would be Dr. Zahra Asan. She is a molecular pathologist who works as a consultant at Agha Khan University Hospital and in the Department of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She completed her BSc Honours in biochemistry from Imperial College London and went on to get a PhD in molecular microbiology from St. Mary's Medical School, which is also affiliated with Imperial College, in 1993. What I love about her is how progressive she is. For a woman to get a PhD, especially from a South Asian country and in the 90s from Europe, was a very big deal. She was also one of the first scientists who introduced the COVID vaccine for the Pakistan strain and was among the group of scientists who elucidated the mechanistic differences between the Wuhan strain and the Pakistan strain of COVID-19. Apart from this, she is one of the two molecular pathologists in Pakistan who do not have a medical training background but have a BSc Honours, a master's, and a PhD in molecular pathology or biochemistry. I also love her work; I try to attend her workshops and lectures. She came to my Shalemar Medical College and gave a lecture on PCR diagnostics. Before that, I only knew about PCRs for diagnosing different viruses, but she explained many different applications of PCR, such as forensic DNA fingerprinting, infectious disease diagnostics, cancer diagnostics, and cardiac markers. She showed how PCRs could be calibrated to diagnose different diseases, and it was awesome.
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