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NFLARC, Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (PCMD), International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi 75270, Pakistan. (Only for Karachi Participants).
Rest will Join Through Zoom.
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“Extracellular vesicles: Different sources, Different applications”
By Prof. Dr. Faezah Shekari
Assistant Professor in the Royan Institute
Royan Extracellular Vesicle Group Tehran, Iran
Date: July 29th, 2022
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM Pak Time
The therapeutic potential of naturally secreted micro- and nanoscale extracellular Vesicles (EVs) as attractive candidates for regenerative medicine and pharmaceutical science applications. In this session, sources, characterization of EVs leading to their potential applications will be discussed.
Dr. Faezah Shekari: is a member of Royan Extracellular Vesicle Group. She graduated in B.Sc. and M.Sc. of Cellular and Molecular Biology from Tehran University. During her undergraduate studies, she got interested in proteomics. She joined Royan Institute in 2005 to pursue her interests on membrane proteomics. During her PhD thesis, she got interested in subcellular fractionation and organellar proteomics under supervision of Dr. Hosseini Salekdeh and Prof. Baharvand. She performed international projects including membrane proteome analysis of liver microsomal fraction from international membrane proteomics initiative (MPI) as well as prepared and characterized standard sample for Asian and Oceania human embryonic stem cell MPI under supervision of Prof. Yu-Ju Chen (from Academia Sinica, Taiwan) and Dr. Hosseini Salekdeh and Prof. Baharvand (from Royan institute) in Academia Sinica. Currently, she works as an Assistant Professor in Royan Extracellular Vesicle Group. She is also chair of ISEV Rigor and standardization task force: https://www.isev.org/page/conditionedmedium
Flyer of the event: Attached
Target Audience:This webinar is open to academics, scientists and general public from all OIC states.
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khazima@comstech.org;
Date: 3rd August 2022
Time: 10:00 am to 01:00 pm (Pakistan Time)
Prof. Dr. Bartira Rossi Bergmann
Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – Brasil
Date: 21st July, 2022
Time: 4 pm Pakistan Standard Time
Our Programme: NTDs (neglected tropical diseases) are a major health and economic burden in Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states. The control and elimination of NTDs requires both a scale-up and integration of global mass treatment programs, along with new tools and technologies to tackle these diseases. COMSTECH, in collaboration with A Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (known as the NTD Network, https://ntd-network.org/ , is launching a virtual lecture series. for researchers across the Moslem world and beyond. Our programme draws upon expertise from both networks, and offers opportunities to gain or enhance researcher knowledge, skills and connections, all of which help to grow our shared global capacity to tackle these rapidly growing NTDs.
This online programme is the one of many COMSTECH-NTD Network joint activities via the COMSTECH platform.
Target Audience: This webinar is open to academics, scientists and the general public from all OIC member states. The content is most relevant to scientists interested in NTDs research, and specialized in Microbiology, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, and Pathology.
Speakers Introduction:
Bartira obtained her BSc in Biomedicine from the University of São Paulo – Brazil. MSc in Medical Parasitology from LSHTM – University of London and PhD in Biology from Brunel University – UK on chemotherapy and immunology of leishmaniasis and African trypanosomiasis. Then, she got a research post at FIOCRUZ (Brazil) focused in clinical leishmaniasis and post-doc in University of Toronto – Canada on tolerogenic vaccination in transplantation later applied with success to leishmaniasis. Presently, she holds a professorship post in UFRJ where she is a member of the animal ethics committee, and the Head of the Leishmaniasis Group working in mucosal vaccines and drug release systems for leishmaniasis. In the industry area, Bartira has developed projects with pharmas like SANOFI and GSK, and founded the LeishNano startup for the nano and micro- technological development of novel vaccines and drugs
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Jointly organized by
Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research,
Royan Institute,
COMSTECH,
Mustafa(pbuh) Science and Technology Foundation
and
Sindh Innovation, Research, and Education Network (SIREN)
Introduction:
Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (PCMD), International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi, in collaboration with Sindh Innovation, Research, and Education Network (SIREN) and COMSTECH regularly organizes popular lectures on the topics of general interest and need.
PCMD-Royan Institute Webinar Series (Hybrid) is being jointly organized by Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, Royan Institute, Iran, COMSTECH, MSTF, and SIREN. The webinar series is based on the current topics of Biomedical Sciences. The series will provide basic as well as advanced knowledge, skills and academic connections and expert opinions from renowned researchers of both institutes.
PCMD:
The Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (PCMD) is a constituent center of the International Center for Chemical and Biological Science (ICCBS). The main objective of the Center is to is to develop an understanding regarding common diseases in Pakistan in order to develop effective diagnostic tools and affordable treatments by using molecular medicinal, chemical and computational methods and to train highly qualified manpower in the emerging new fields of molecular medicine and drug development.
Royan Institute:
The Royan Institute is an Iranian clinical, research and educational institute dedicated to biomedical, translational and clinical researches, stem cell research and infertility treatment. It is a public non-profitable organization affiliated to Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research. It was established in 1991 by the late Dr. Saeid Kazemi Ashtiani as a research institute for Reproductive Biomedicine and infertility treatments. In 1998 this institute was approved by Ministry of Health as Cell Based Research Center with over 46 scientific members and 186 lab technicians.
Fourth Webinar:
The fourth webinar of series is entitled:
“Strategies on the Application of Stem Cell and its Derivatives Based Therapies for the Treatment of Optic Neuropathies”
Who Should Attend?
All undergraduate and graduate students as well as scientists and researchers working in the fields of molecular biomedicine, stem cells and regenerative medicine, tissue engineering and other biomedical disciplines.
Speaker’s Profile:
Dr. Leila Satarian received her PhD in Medical Physiology from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. During her PhD and Postdoc at Royan Institute under the supervision of Prof. Baharvand and Prof. Javan, she worked on developing novel strategy for optic nerve regeneration by using neural progenitor cells and also differentiation of the human pluripotent stem cells-derived retinal pigmented epithelium cells. She is leader of Royan Eye Group since 2010 and became a member of Stem Cell Faculty of Royan Institute in 2014. Now Leila Satarian as an Assistant Professor works on both basic (particularly optic nerve regeneration) and clinical (especially RPE replacement) aspects
of retinal regeneration.
Program Schedule: July 20, 2022
Day and Time: Wednesday 10.00 am Pakistan time: 9.30 am Tehran time
For registration (free): bit.ly/4thWEBPCMD-SIREN
Register by July 17, 2022
Venue for physical participation: L.E.J. National Science Information Center,International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi, Karachi-75270.
For more information: Email: siren.lej@gmail.com; Call: 021-111-222-292 Ext: 267, 275.
Room No. 202, 2nd floor, L.E.J. National Science Information Center,International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi, Karachi-75270.
Speaker Profiles: Click Here.
Flyer: Click here
Current trends in Virology and Epidemiology:
It gives us an immense pleasure to invite you to the Seminar on ‘Current Trends in Virology and Epidemiology; Women’s Health”, to be held on September 27th, 2022, as a Hybrid Event.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection. In addition, cervical cancer is the most prevalent HPV-associated cancer, and some cancers of the reproductive organs and oropharynx (back of the throat, including the base of the tongue and tonsils) are also caused by HPV. Cancer often takes years, even decades, to develop after a person gets HPV. Many women do not know they have HPV, because it usually has no symptoms and usually goes away on its own.
Scientists and young researchers from all over the world are expected to participate in this international meeting. This seminar aims to strengthen capacities of OIC member states especially in the fields of emerging viruses, disease diagnosis, surveillance, epidemiology and prevention. The purpose of this event is to serve as a forum for enthusiastic virologists from all over the world to discuss scientific topics of mutual interest that had come from various parts of OIC members. We aim to bring together leading experts in the field of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) research from all around the world and especially OIC region for research for the common benefit of humanity during the symposium. The participants will have a chance to interact with the esteemed speakers in person.
Target Audience: The webinar is open to students, researchers, young scientists, and academicians from the OIC member states and other countries. A great opportunity to meet renowned international and national speakers in person!
Register at: https://forms.gle/yrsBq5dS2eyeUE1g7
Zoom link for participation will be shared with selected participants.
Focal Person Email: khazima@comstech.org ; maham.yamin@comstech.org
Prof. Dr. Syed Ejaz Ahmed
Professor of Math & Statistics
Dean, Faculty of Math & Science
Brock University, Canada
Date and Time: July 15, 2022, from 15:00-16:30 (Pakistan Standard Time)
Venue: COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad.
Overview:
The rapid growth in the size and scope of data sets in a variety of disciplines have naturally led to the usage of the term, Big Data. The analysis of such data is important in multiple research fields such as digital marketing, gene expression arrays, social network modeling, clinical, genetics and phenotypic data, bioinformatics, and personalized medicine, among others. In high-dimensional models where number of features is greater than observations, a host of penalized regularization strategies were introduced for simultaneous model selection and estimation. Evidently, underfitted models are subject to inherited bias, and the prediction based on a selected submodel maybe risky. For this reason, a high-dimensional post shrinkage strategy (HDSS) is proposed to improve the prediction performance of a submodel. The HDSS is constructed by shrinking an overfitted model in the direction of an underfitted model. It is demonstrated that the proposed strategy performs uniformly better than the overfitted model strategy, and it improves the prediction accuracy of a given submodel. The relative performance of the HDSS is appraised by both simulation studies and the real data analysis. Several examples will be provided based on some statistical models.
Target Audience:
The webinar is open to students, researchers, young scientists, and academicians from the OIC member states, and other countries.
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Venue:
The workshop will be held at the COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad, Pakistan. The city with the backdrop of Margalla Hills and National Park was purpose-built as the capital of sixth largest globally and second most populous (in OIC) country Pakistan in the year 1966. Pakistan, according to the Forbes magazine, is a hidden treasure for tourists with rich cultural diversity, ancient history, diverse landscape, cuisines, modern cities, and locally produced items.
Profile of the Speaker can be accessed at: https://brocku.ca/mathematics-science/mathematics/directory/syed-ejaz-ahmed/#biography
Workshop Coordinators:
In collaboration with Pardis Technology Park, and ICCBS Technology Park and Technology Incubation Center.
Date: 7-8 September, 2022
Venue: COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad, Pakistan
Deadline for Applications: 31st July, 2022
Introduction:
The first science park was established in 1970 by the University of Cambridge to facilitate the sharing of knowledge between the industry, academia and the government. Science parks play a key role in attracting talent to bring forward technological advancement and innovation. It is an effective medium to attract entrepreneurs in desirable science and tech industries by providing high quality working space with a chance to work in close collaboration with the industry.
At a Science and Technology Park, businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs have access to purpose built office spaces, laboratories and meeting areas designed to facilitate research in growth in various fields of science and technology. These parks are managed by special professionals who stimulate and coordinate the flow of technology and knowledge among the universities, research and innovation institutions, market and so forth. These technology parks have proven to be the bridge between converting innovative ideas into commercial products and services.
COMSTECH in collaboration with Pardis Technology Park, and ICCBS Technology Park and Technology Incubation Center is organizing an international training workshop on “Managing Science and Technology Parks”. This workshop will analyze the path of development of an idea into a commercial product along with discussing the different models of accelerators, incubation centers and technology parks. Furthermore, the workshop will focus specifically on training managers and personnel that run the technology parks.
Target Audience:
Managers/CEO of technology parks, managers from incubation parks, university based technology incubation centers, consultants, start-ups, ORIC incharge, Scientists, researchers, policy maker/government officials, and academicians from the OIC countries are encouraged to participate.
Key Contents:
The training workshop will cover the following topics over Two days:
About the Resource Persons
The resources persons will consist of managers and heads of various world renowned technology parks who will deliver lectures on key areas of technology park management.
Travel & Local Hospitality:
COMSTECH will arrange local hospitality for selected participants from OIC member states. Participants are expected to get their travel funding from their parent organizations/country of origin.
Registration Process:
Step 1: For Physical Participation please register at:https://forms.gle/zZFHLEPgq14DkVhp8
Step 2: For Virtual participation please register at:https://forms.gle/4Pa1WHVXz6rLa1Q66
Step 2: Read instructions in the application form carefully and submit a properly filled form along with your CV. Foreign participants must submit a scanned copy of passport.
Step 3: Selected candidates will be notified through email; hence, applicants are required to check their emails.
Venue:
The workshop will be held at the COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad, Pakistan. The city with the backdrop of Margalla Hills and National Park was purpose-built as the capital of sixth largest globally and second most populous (in OIC) country Pakistan in the year 1966. Pakistan, according to the Forbes magazine, is a hidden treasure for tourists with rich cultural diversity, ancient history, diverse landscape, cuisines, modern cities, and locally produced items.
Technicial Focal Person
AminReza Khaleghian
DG for International affairs & PR
Pardis Technology Park- I.R.IRAN
Tel: +98 21 76 250 250 (Ext. 2130)
Mob: +98 912 358 45 77
Email: khaleghian@techpark.ir
Workshop Coordinators
Muhammad Haris Akram
Program Manager, COMSTECH
Tel: +92-51-9220681-3
Email: haris@comstech.org
Muhammad Haseeb Ahmad
Program Officer, COMSTECH
Tel: +92-51-9220681-3
Email: haseeb.ahmad@comstech.org
Date: 5th July 2022
Time: 1500 hrs- 1600 hrs Pakistan Time
Delivered by:
Hon. Senator Walid Iqbal
A member of Pakistan Senate & Pakistan’s leading corporate lawyer
Profile of the Speaker:
Walid Iqbal, a member of Pakistan Senate, is one of Pakistan’s leading corporate lawyers, and has nearly two decades of teaching experience in the fields of Law and Economics. He entered legal practice in Pakistan in 1994, and became an Advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan in 1996. After earning his LL.M. from Harvard Law School (1996–97), he was admitted to practice in the State of New York in 1998 and to the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales in 2004 (currently maintaining non-practicing status).
Between 1997 and 2004, Senator Walid Iqbal worked for two leading international law firms established in New York and London, and returned to Pakistan to re-start his practice here in January 2005. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Pakistan Movement Workers’ Trust. Apart from Harvard Law School, Senator Walid Iqbal has also been educated at Aitchison College Lahore (O-Levels and A-Levels), the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania (B.S. Economics), Pembroke College, Cambridge (M. Phil. in International Relations), and the Punjab University (LL.B.) (Gold Medalist).
Senator Walid Iqbal has been serving as an Adjunct Professor of Business Law and Corporate Governance at the Suleman Dawood School of Business of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) since 2006. Prior to that, he has taught Business Law at the MBA Program of Government College University, Lahore, in 2004 and 2005, has taught an undergraduate course in International Economics at Harvard University in 1997, and has served as a lecturer of Jurisprudence at the Punjab Law College, Lahore, from 1994 to 1996, as well as a lecturer of Business Law at the Punjab College of Business Administration, Lahore, in 1996. Senator Walid Iqbal belongs to a family of international renown in the fields of intellect, law, public welfare, judicial service, and social activism. He also regularly appears in international conferences, public talks, debates, and television talk shows.
He has several published papers to his credit on a variety of legal and non-legal topics, including Pakistan’s nuclear tests and the sanctions regime applicable thereto, Pakistan’s constitutional system, alternate dispute resolution, Islamic law and constitutional structure, Pakistan-Russia relations, and the life and teachings of Allama Muhammad Iqbal.
On 14 December 2018, Walid Iqbal took up elected office as a Member of the Pakistan Senate, the country’s Upper House of Parliament, as a representative of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf from the Punjab province, and served as the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Defence from 2019 to 2021. He is currently serving as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights and is also a member of the Senate Standing Committees on Defence, Foreign Affairs, Law and Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs.
Abstract
Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) is known across the globe as a poet, philosopher and thinker. He is also described as a great leader of the Muslims of the Sub-continent, an exponent of Pan-Islamism, and a national reformer. But not many are aware that Iqbal had keen eye for all the contemporary disciplines and had a deep understanding of the scientific developments and philosophical debates of the twentieth century. Even though he had never been admitted to a university to study science, Iqbal was well-versed with the science of anatomy as well as the latest inventions in the fields of engineering and technology. Research on Iqbal’s life shows that books on science and engineering authored by the some of the most prominent scholars of his time remained under his study. Iqbal’s poetry and philosophical thoughts are, thus, not only a combination of the impact of modern scientific developments, but also contain impressive predictions on the basis of his study of modern science. Accordingly, this webinar intends to explore this relatively lesser-known aspect of Iqbal’s personality, and to highlight that he was the only poet of Urdu and Persian languages possessed with sound knowledge of science and technology.
Target Audience
The webinar is open to students, researchers, young scientists, policy makers and academicians from the OIC member states and other countries.
Register at : https://forms.gle/YBbHrFKspXz5gRy89
Zoom link for participation will be shared with selected participants.
Address: COMSTECH Secretariat, 33-Constitution Avenue, G-5/2, Islamabad
Phone No. : 92 51 9220681-3
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