Re: LUMS
**Fatima Waqas Khwaja
**Visiting Faculty, Biology
Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, USA
B.Sc., Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Research Interests"
Translational Cancer Research; Biomarker Discovery through
Proteomics, Molecular Biology
Fatima Waqas Khwaja is currently a Jr. Research Scientist in the
Basic Science Laboratory at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital
and Research Center, a state of the art, non-profit, charity cancer
hospital in Pakistan. She received her Ph.D degree from Emory
University in 2006. She was a National Science Foundation fellow in
2003-2004 to develop problem-based curriculum in science for K-12
classrooms. She has special interest in teaching and has taught
undergraduat and graduate level courses at Emory University, Punjab
University and at LUMS.
Tasneem Zehra Hussain
Assistant Professor of Physics
School of Science and Engineering (SSE),
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS),
Lahore
Tasneem Zehra Husain obtained a B.Sc from Kinnaird College, Lahore,
an M.Sc. in Physics from Quaid-e-Azam University and spent a year
doing post-graduate work in High Energy Physics at the Abdus Salam
International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) before going to
Stockholm University for her Ph.D. Tasneem then went on to join the
High Energy Theory Group at Harvard as a post-doctoral researcher.
She is currently interested in using methods of 11-dimensional
supergravity to arrive at a classification of the backgrounds that
arise when M-branes wrap supersymmetric cycles.
Tasneem has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has
presented her work at several national and international
conferences. Her awards have included the Vice Chancellor's gold
medal and the Phillip's gold medal at the Quaid-e-Azam university,
the Boswell medal for the best graduating science student from
Kinnaird College, and a couple of international awards for her
writing.Tasneem has represented Pakistan at the Meeting of Nobel Laureates
in Lindau, Germany and led the Pakistan team to the WYP Launch
Conference in Paris.
Tasneem is keenly interested in education and science
popularization. She designed Pakistan's logo for the World Year of
Physics (WYP) and was an active participant in the WYP Physics
Stories project, lead by Argonne National Laboratories.
In an effort to make contemporary theoretical physics accessible to
high-school students, Tasneem developed a series of animated
presentations which she then presented in front of several
audiences. She has taught at Kinnaird College, helped with training
Pakistan's team to the International Olympiads and is on the Board
of Directors of the Alif Laila Book Bus Society (a non-profit
educational institution catering primarily to under-privileged
children).
**Hassna R. Ramay
**Assistant Professor, Bioengineering , SSE,LUMS,Lahore
Ph.D., University of Washington
M.Sc., New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
B.Sc., Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Sciences & Technology (GIKI)
Research Interests Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials,
Bionanotechnology and Cell Materials Interactions
Dr. Hassna Ramay received her Ph.D. in Biomaterials at the
Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, University of
Washington in 2004. She did her masters in Materials Sciences and
Engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and
her Bachelors in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from Ghulam
Ishaq Khan Institute of Sciences and Technology. She worked as a
postdoctoral fellow at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute,
University of Delaware. Her research focuses on fabrication of
biomaterials for tissue engineering applications.
Hamid Zaman
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Enginnering,SSE,LUMS.
Jointly with UT at Austin.
Hamid Zaman is an Asst. Prof. in the Departments of Biomedical
Engineering and Cell and Molecular Biology and member of Institute
of Theoretical Chemistry as well as Institute for Computational
Engineering and Sciences and of Center for Synthetic and Systems
Biology at UT Austin. He obtained his PhD from the Chemistry
Department at the University of Chicago, focusing on the protein
folding, dynamics and interactions. His current research focuses on
developing interdisciplinary tools to study interaction of cells
with extra-cellular matrices, particularly in cancer progression and
metastasis. He has developed new techniques, both theoretically and
experimentally to study this problem. Hamid has and continues to
publish extensively in highly prestigious international journals.
His research has been recognized broadly through various
international awards. In 2007, he was awarded the FEBS (Federation
of European Biochemical Societies) Young Investigator Award in
Matrix Biology, an award rarely given to anyone outside the European
Union. Recently, he was also named International Visiting Fellow at
the University of Sydney, Australia. His work on cell migration in
3D, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, was hailed world-wide as one of the major breakthroughs in
cancer in 2006. Prior to his position at UT Austin, Hamid was
Hermann and Margaret Sokol Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT
and was a Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Graduate Fellow at the
University of Chicago during his Ph.D. During his undergraduate,
Hamid was also the awarded Alfred Crabaugh Outstanding Senior Award,
given to the best undergraduate student at the entire University.
More information about Hamid's work at UT Austin is available at
Zaman's Lab
zlabs.bme.utexas.edu.