Rate My Professor Akram Shah

Professor Dr. Akram Shah is Professor of Zoology and Head of the Department of Chemical and Life Sciences at Qurtuba University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan. He also serves as Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Information Technology and holds positions on the university's Academic Council and Board of Advanced Studies and Research. Shah earned his PhD in Parasitology from King’s College London in 1993, with a thesis titled "Site-specific Anti-leishmanial Drug Delivery: with special reference to the use of Modified Apoprotein-B as a site-specific delivery ligand," supervised by Dr. David Thomas Hart. He previously obtained an M.Sc. in Zoology, first class first position with a gold medal, from the University of Peshawar in 1986, specializing in parasitology with a thesis on malaria prevalence among Afghan refugees. His career at the University of Peshawar spanned from Lecturer in Zoology (1994-1998), Assistant Professor (1998-2004), Associate Professor (2004-2009), Professor (2009-2020), to Chairman of the Department of Zoology (2018-2020). He joined Qurtuba University as Professor in November 2020. An HEC-approved PhD supervisor since 2009, Shah has established a state-of-the-art cell culture and antileishmanial drug delivery laboratory equipped for in vitro studies including ELISA and MTT assays.