Dr. Muhammad Asim Raza Basra received his bachelor degree in Bachelor of Science Education from Government College of Education for Science, Township Lahore in 2002 and his Mater in Chemistry from Institute of Chemistry, university of the Punjab, Lahore in 2006. He served institute of Chemistry as student demonstrator in Applied Lab for one year (2005-2006). In 2006, he won Cultural Scholarship announced by Ministry of Education for PhD and joined department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in September 2006 as PhD Scholar and he completed his PhD degree in 2010 under the supervision of great scientist Prof Lu Shemin. During his PhD, he did research work on allergic asthma by using animal model and published five research articles in international journals. He joined University of Health Sciences on IPFP in 2011 and engaged in teaching and research on herbal plant. He served Genetic Diseases Research lab, Allama Iqbal Medical College, University of Health Sciences, Lhr as Assistant Professor from July 2012-August 2014 and worked on Genetic diseases including Intellectual disability (ID) and Stuttering and Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Dr Asim joined Institute of chemistry in August 2014 as Assistant Professor. Presently he is working on genetic diseases such as Specific Language Disorders, Autism, identification of active compound from herbal Plants used for Cancer, HCV, allergic diseases, Rheumatoid arthritis and obesity, fungus and bacteria, as well as Silver Nanoparticles with collaboration with UVAS, Centre of excellence in Molecular Biology, Department of pharmaceutical Chemistry, Xian Jiaotong University China, and Department of Pharmacology, University of Health Sciences, Lhr. He has participated national and international conferences and seminars.
