KARACHI: Prof Dr Raza Shah, the Senior Professor at the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), the University of Karachi, has won the 37th Khwarizmi International Award (KIA) in Biological and Chemical Sciences.
Prof. Raza Shah will attend the 37th KIA Award Ceremony at the end of February in Tehran, where the Pakistani scientist will be awarded the trophy, certificate, and cash prize of 20,000 USD by the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The award is given to the most prominent scientists in the world and is considered to be a highly prestigious award in the world in general and Iran in particular.
The ICCBS, University of Karachi Director, Prof Dr Farzana Shaheen congratulated Prof. Raza Shah for his great achievement.
According to the spokesman of the ICCBS, University of Karachi, the awards have been announced by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology to recognize the valuable achievements of the researchers, innovators, and inventors in the field of Science and Technology.
It is worth mentioning here that the Khwarizmi International Award is named in memory of the achievements of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, the Iranian mathematician and astronomer.
According to the ICCBS Spokesman, Prof. Shah, working in the area of Nanomedicine and Supramolecular Chemistry, has authored six books (Elsevier) and also edited four books (Elsevier), along with 12 chapters in books and more than 460 research articles in international journals with impact factor more than 1700 with H-index 50.
He led the vaccine (COVID-19) phase-1 clinical trial of Sinopharm company in Pakistan. He led the DRAP-approved clinical trial for treating COVID-19 patients with traditional Chinese medicines.
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The Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi, Prof Dr Khalid Mehmood Iraqi, Prof Dr Atta-ur Rahman, Professor Emeritus and former Federal Minister for Science and Technology, and Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, the Coordinator-General OIC-COMSTECH, and UNESCO CHAIR on Medicinal and Bio-Organic Natural Product Chemistry ICCBS, also congratulated Prof. Raza Shah for his achievement.
