Digital health startups, CalKitna and GlucoBuddy, secure starter funds
CalKitna, a calorie watch app for local food, and GlucoBuddy, a low-cost glucose measuring device for the masses, secure starter funding of PKR 350,000 each for prototyping [...]
Biologists, Doctors and Engineers seed 6 new startups into Peshawar’s Biomedical Cluster
The Precision Medicine Lab held a 3-day event around innovation in healthcare. Dubbed as PML Hacks, the event brought together young professionals from different disciplines [...]
Dr Khan mentors at the Global Surgery Hackathon at AKU [Feb 7, 2019]
Dr Faisal Khan, Principal Investigator, Precision Medicine Lab attended the Global Surgery Conference 2019 at the Agha Khan University last weekend where he was invited as a mentor for the Global Surgery Hackathon organised during the conference by the CCIT, a unit of creative and innovative medics, techies and artists that is trying to stitch [...]
New Positions Open! 5 reasons why you should join the Precision Medicine Lab
New Positions Open! 5 reasons why you should join the Precision Medicine Lab The Precision Medicine is recruiting fulltime technical and non-technical staff including young scientists in the area of computer science (applied statistics, data science and machine learning), biology (molecular biology, cell culture and genomics) [...]
Dr Johar Ali speaks at the Oral Cancer Genomic Seminar
Dr Johar Ali speaks at the Oral Cancer Genomic Seminar The Rehman College for Dentistry and the RMI Center for Genomic Sciences co-organized a seminar on Oral Cancer Genomics where, Dr Johar Ali, co-PI Precision Medicine Lab gave a keynote lecture. The seminar brought together the [...]
Dr Johar Ali nominated as inaugural Vice President of the Genome Society
Dr Johar Ali nominated as inaugural Vice President of the Genome Society The inaugural Executive Committee Meeting of the newly established Genome Society, Pakistan was held at RMI on December 4, 2018. Dr Johar Ali and Dr Faisal Khan from the Precision Medicine Lab have [...]
Dr Faisal Khan at Harvard Medical School
Dr Faisal Khan at Harvard Medical School Our PI, Dr Faisal Khan has been inducted into the Cancer Biology and Therapeutics programme at Harvard Medical School. The programme is led by pioneers in the area of cancer research including Ed Harlow, George Demetri and Peter Howley. [...]
Our PI at the Global Community Bio Summit at MIT
Our PI at the Global Community Bio Summit at MIT Dr Faisal Khan, PI of the precision medicine lab, and Sarah Farooq, both attended the Global Community Bio Summit held at the MIT Media Lab. They led sessions on ‘Nascent bio-communities in emerging cities’ and ‘Learning [...]
Our PI, interviewed by MIT Technology Review Pakistan
Our PI, interviewed by MIT Technology Review Pakistan Dr Faisal Khan, our PI has been interviewd for his pioneering work in synthetic biology in Pakistan by MIT Technology Review Pakistan. The interview featured in this month’s issue of the magazine. Here is a snippet where he [...]
Dr Faisal Khan comments on Pakistani science in Nature
Dr Faisal Khan comments on Pakistani science in Nature Ehsan Masood, author and science commentator from the UK, writes a piece on the post-election scenario of the science sector in Pakistan where he interviewed prominent scientists including Dr Atta ur Rahman, Dr Sabieh Anwar, Dr Sania [...]