The Digital Youth Summit (DYS) is a technology focused conference that takes place annually in Peshawar, Pakistan. Since its inception in 2014, DYS has quickly become one of the premier tech conferences in Pakistan—differentiated by its focus on youth empowerment; its ability to attract high-profile domestic and international attendees and speakers and its unique [...]
Google DevFest Peshawar 2019 is a celebration of Peshawar’s innovation with the help of technology gathering speakers, trainers, and attendees from all around the globe. It has been happening globally for years but is Peshawar's first event. PI Dr. Faisal Khan was part of the panel on 4th Industrial Revolution in Peshawar and gave an overview [...]
Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved the establishment of the National Youth Council (NYC) for development of the youth of the country. The council which consists of 33 young professionals from diverse backgrounds are expected to play an active role in uplifting the youth of the country for their role in national development. The [...]
The Government of Pakistan has decided to set up a task force to constitute technology driven knowledge economy in the country. Our Co-PI, Dr. Johar Ali has been selected as National Core Group member of the “Prime Minister’s task force on technology driven knowledge economy” to lead Omics. The Task Force is [...]
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 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 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 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 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 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 [...]
