The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore’s Department of Pathology has appointed Dr. Raheela Akhtar as its first female professor.
The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore’s Department of Pathology has appointed Dr. Raheela Akhtar as its first female professor.
She is one of the youngest professors, having started her career at the age of 49. She started working as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Pathology in 2005. She has been a teacher and researcher for 18 years. Throughout her career, young professor Dr. Raheela Akhtar has held merit scholarships.
She received a Gold Medal from the Society of Physiology of Veterinary University, a Silver Medal for his DVM, and a Silver Medal for his MPhil. She earned a local HEC scholarship for her Ph.D. while attending the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences in Lahore and is a Puli Khatun.
It should be noted that at the time, this university was ranked among the top ten worldwide. She finished his PhD when she was just 28 years old. At the young age of 28, when she completed her PhD, she was eager to start a lab at the pathology department.
She improved UVAS’s Department of Pathology’s haematology and molecular pathology lab. She taught the department new procedures for LPS extraction, purification, isolation, and culturing of immune cells, as well as RFLP and lateral flow assay.
Since 2019, Dr. Raheela Akhtar has been a member of the Royal Society of Veterinary Pathologists in the UK as an associate member. In the 2018 All Pakistan Pitching Research Competition, which was run by the University of Queensland in Australia, she was the first Pakistani to take first place and a cash prize of 50,000 rupees for presenting the best research proposal.
She created a unique diagnostic strip for the quick identification of Mycobacterium and Brucella. The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore’s first product for which a patent application was submitted was this diagnostic strip.
In various nations, Dr. Rahila Akhtar presented her research findings. In 2008, she became the first scientist to receive India’s GP Sen Young Scientist Award.
Dr. Raheela Akhtar has successfully completed four research projects as the principal investigator for a total cost of about $15 million from various funding agencies. She has 56 publications with both a national and international impact factor. She also works for several national and international impact factor journals as a reviewer and editorial board member.