Karachi: The first-ever global convocation ceremony of the Aga Khan University (AKU) was live-streamed to a worldwide audience today, as 667 students on three continents received their degrees and listened to speeches by His Highness the Aga Khan, Chief Guest Melinda French Gates and AKU President Firoz Rasul. His Highness the Aga Khan, AKU’s founder and…
Karachi: The Ziauddin University in Karachi has introduced Pakistan’s first 3D virtual dissection table called Anatomage, at its new digital anatomy lab in Clifton, which will be used as a learning tool for university students of all years. An inauguration ceremony was held in this regard in which the Chancellor Dr Asim Hussain said, “It’s…
KARACHI: Vice-Chancellor, Dow University of Health Sciences, Prof Muhammad Saeed Quraishy, has said that the cases of the global epidemic COVID-19 are gradually decreasing. COVID-19 had put educational activities at stake, but now the students have started moving towards a brighter future, and new horizons of success are waiting for them. He said this in…
KARACHI: Karachi Researchers at the Aga Khan University are harnessing the power of stem cells to create mini-intestines that can generate new insights into how malnutrition occurs. Malnutrition is a major public health problem in the developing world, with four out of ten children under the age of five in Pakistan suffering from stunting while…
KARACHI: “The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has approved three vaccines till now. The first is the Sinopharm vaccine; the second is the Oxford University research project – Astrazeneca vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India. The third is the Sputnik-V, manufactured by the Russian State Institute. We are currently using the Sinopharm…
KARACHI: “It is a completely different world we are living in now, restrictions, social distancing, series of lockdowns, increasing number of deaths, loss of jobs, and the socio-economic impact of a pandemic has a correlation with the increasing number of mental health cases. According to the survey results collected from different parts of the world,…
KARACHI: The Aga Khan University’s Departments of Postgraduate Medical Education, PGME, in Karachi and Nairobi have become the first in South Asia and Africa to be accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education International, ACGME-I. ACGME-I is a global accreditation body that verifies that medical education institutions, as well as their postgraduate programs…
KARACHI: Encroachment and illegal parking around the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and two other major hospitals of Karachi are not only hampering the movement of ambulances carrying patients with emergency requirements but also causing inconvenience to the visitors and the hospital staff. The staff of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), National Institute of…
KARACHI: AKU’s Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research (CRM) has won a PKR 14.5 million grant to develop new, targeted therapies for a common form of blood cancer in adults, Philadelphia chromosome-positive (Ph+) leukemia. The chromosomal defect is known as the Philadelphia chromosome (Ph) is a characteristic of two important types of blood…
KARACHI: As many as 1,405 Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients have been brought to the COVID-19 Isolation Ward of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) from 18 March to 31 December 2020, out of which 54 died due to COVID-19 related complications. The JPMC data showed that 22,871 tests were conducted from 18 March to 31 December…
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