Online Course on Cancer Genetics Completed in Pakistan

by Admin

The means of education has been made easier by the technology as scholars have completed a valuable course on Cancer Genetics through online facility from different parts of the country.

The one credit hour online course on “Cancer Genetics”, especially designed for PhD students at the video conferencing hall of Latif Ebrahim Jamal (LEJ) National Science Information Centre, Karachi University (KU)

The 14-day free online course from December 20, 2011 to January 2, 2012, was organised by Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research and Virtual Education Project Pakistan (VEPP) as a part of series of popular lectures for public awareness on common diseases ofPakistan.

Students from University of Health Sciences Lahore, Sardar Bahadur Khan University, Quetta and Nuclear Medicine, Oncology & Radiotherapy Institute Islamabad and Karachi University participated in the course, while 25 students from various departments and institutes of Karachi University got formally registered themselves into the course.

Renowned scientist Prof. Dr. Rafat Ali Siddiqui was the coordinator of the course. Dr Siddiqui has got his PhD in Biotechnology from Australian National University.

He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Massey University,New Zealand during 1987-1989. At present he is a Senior Investigator at the Methodist Research Institute, Indiana University Health and also a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine.