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 [...]
Global experts, including Dr Khan, publish white paper on Genomic Data Policy and Ethics
The COVID19 pandemic has exposed gross inequalities in the global health care system including the lack of understanding on how the disease is affecting populations and individuals differently. Low and middle income countries or LMICs, have clearly been at a disadvantage, with lack of access to testing kits and reagents, lack of skilled manpower [...]
Four high-school mavericks complete their internship at the Lab
The Precision Medicine Lab hosted four of the brightest high schoolers around as part of our first edition of the Summer Internship programme. This was a 6-weeks [...]
PML Cancer Symposium 2020
The PML Cancer Symposium was held on August 31, 2020 at the RMC Auditorium that for the first time showcased what has been happening at Precision Medicine Lab and its collaborators. The symposium was attended by a pre-registered group of students, scientists, trainees and consultants from the biomedical community in Phase V and beyond. [...]
Making the best of your interview
Interviews are an integral part of any recruitment process and play a pivotal role in the assessment of a candidate. It goes without saying that it takes a lot from both sides to commit to and be part of an interview. Interviewees usually have to spare half a day atleast to prepare, commute and [...]
Cluster hiring via selection conference
We, at PML, are back to work in full swing since June 1, 2020. Right before the whole country went into lockdown we were in the middle of acquiring new talent for the lab through a selection conference on a national level. Almost over a hundred people were interviewed after short listing which was [...]
CECOS University students visit the Precision Medicine Lab
The PML hosted around 30 Bachelor and Master students from IIB ,CECOS University on 17th January 2020. Technical Lead Dr. Habib Jan welcomed the students and gave an overview of the Lab's purpose, goals and the importance of precision medicine in general. Dr Habib went on to introduce the entire team of PML and [...]
Annual Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BigC 2019)
Precision Medicine Lab attended the annual the workshop on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BigC 2019) at Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE) at LUMS. The objective of the workshop was to provide a platform to researchers, students, and practitioners to discuss the cutting edge research and state-of-the-art industry solutions in the [...]
18th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium
The 18th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium was held from the 1st to the 3rd of November, 2019 in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. This symposium was the largest oncology meeting in Pakistan, attracting more than 3000 delegates and over a hundred guest speakers. It was a gathering of experts, researchers and practitioners involved in delivering [...]