Prof. Anwar-ul-Hassan
Gilani
Introduction: It is pleasure
introducing Prof. Anwar Gilani,
whose career is that of a distinguished Pharmacologist, combining novel
discoveries and distinctive mentorship roles, who won merit scholarship from
primary school to PhD. He obtained his BSc in Agriculture and MSc in Pharmacology with
distinction from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad and then his PhD from University of Sydney. He joined Aga Khan
University in 1986 as lecturer and rose to full professor in 1997, where he
occupied multiple leadership positions before occupying national level position
of Chairman, Pakistan Council for Science and Technology and now holds the
position of Vice Chancellor here at University of Haripur.
Prof. Gilani occupied
1st national ranking
in Pharmaceutical Sciences, maintained this position since last two decades and
won several national/international research awards including Boehringer
Ingelheim Award, Salam Prize by TWAS and Ibn-Al-Haytham
Prize in Science. The Government of
Pakistan has bestowed upon him the title of Distinguished National Professor, Life-Time Academic Achievements Award and two
civil awards (Pride of Performance and
Sitara-i-Imtiaz). He represented Pakistan in the area of Science,
Technology and Health at several international forums including at the United
Nations and WHO meetings.
Prof.
Gilani has published over 450 articles on different fields (cited over 16,000
times) with an h-index of 68 (Google, Aug,
2018). He has served as an advisor
to WHO on Essential Medicine and International Foundation for Science. Prof.
Gilani is a Fellow, Pakistan Academy of Science as well as Fellow of TWAS – The World Academy of Sciences.
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