Dr. Sohail Raza
Assistant Professor / Institutional Bio-safety Officer
DVM (UAF), M.Phil. Microbiology (UVAS), PhD Molecular Microbiology (HZAU, China)
Tel:+92-3006524483
Email: sohail.raza@uvas.edu.pk
HEC Approved PhD Supervisor
Biography:
Dr. Sohail Raza (HEC approved PhD supervisor), is an Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, UVAS Lahore. He is also serving as Institutional Bio-safety Officer of the university. He completed his PhD in 2016 with distinction. During PhD, he worked on the construction of gene deleted marker vaccine against Bovine Herpesvirus 1 and mechanism involve in the viral maturation and egress. Due to his contribution in this area, he has been awarded “Distinguished Research Scholar Award, Excellent Research Contribution Award and Outstanding Research Thesis Award” from government of China. He has published 09 papers in impact factor International Journals. His research focuses on the development of recombinant vaccines using trans-disciplinary approaches against prevalent diseases in Pakistan. Currently, he is working on the production and evaluation of recombinant foot-and-mouth disease virus-like particles (vlps) for the effective control of foot-and-mouth disease in Pakistan.
Research Interest:
- Investigate the role of viral and cellular proteins in virus infection through molecular approaches.
- Construction and evaluation of recombinant Vaccines against prevalent diseases in Pakistan.
Trainings, Workshops Attended:
Title |
Year |
Organized/Participated |
ASM 52 weeks of Biosafety (One Health Initiative Training Program) |
2019-2020 |
ASM |
2nd Awareness Seminar on Field Biosafety |
December 7, 2019 |
Organizer & Resource Person |
One Health Training Program In-person Training |
July 22-25, 2019 |
Participated |
Molecular Diagnostic Advance Technologies |
15th – 26th September, 2019 |
Participated |
Awareness Level Biosafety Workshop |
18th June, 2019 |
Organizer & Resource Person |
Academic writing for publication |
1st – 12th , April, 2019 |
Participant |
Poultry Viral Diagnostics |
5th – 12th March,2018 |
Resource Person |
1st workshop for Biosafety Officers (BSO) |
April 12,2018 |
Organizer & Resource Person |
2nd workshop for Biosafety Officers (BSO) |
13th – 14th April,2018 |
Organizer & Resource Person |
International Halal Conference |
April 17,2018 |
Participant |
Halal Training workshop on “Halal Food Safety Standards” |
April 18,2018 |
Participant |
International Training Workshop on Evaluation of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus Vaccine |
23rd – 28th April,2018 |
Participant |
Hands on Training Workshop on Biosafety |
June 22, 2018 |
Resource Person |
“One Health Training Workshop” organized by The University of Tennessee at Bali, Indonesia |
23rd – 26th July, 2018 |
Participant |
Molecular Characterization and Field Surveillance of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus |
30th July – 3rd August, 2018 |
Participant |
Awareness Level Biosafety Workshop |
8th – 10th August, 2018 |
Organizer & Resource Person |
International Poultry Expo-2018 |
27th – 29th September, 2018 |
Participant |
Advanced Level Biosafety Workshop |
26th – 27th November,2018 |
Organizer & Resource Person |
Wet Workshop |
10th - 14th September, 2017 |
Participant |
Master Trainer Workshop |
29th July – 03rd August, 2017 |
Participant |
National Workshop on Intellectual Property Protection for the Inventions Related to Agriculture and Animal Sciences |
9th – 10th October, 2017 |
Participant |
Isolation and molecular chracterization of shiga toxin producing E.Coli 0157 |
1st – 5th March, 2011 |
Participant |
Modern Techniques in Angiogenesis and Toxicology |
1st – 8th June, 2010 |
Participant |
Biomass production of Pasturella multocida for vaccine preparation |
23rd – 27th August, 2010 |
Participant |
Production and evaluation of cell cultured base FMD and HS Vaccine |
2nd – 12th August, 2010 |
Participant |
Propagation of Newcastle Disease Virus in Chicken & characterization of its immunogens using SDS-PAGE |
31st May – 4th June 2010 |
Participant |
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
- Pakistan Biological Safety Association (Lifetime Member)
- Pakistan Veterinary and Medical Council (PVMC) (Lifetime Member)
- Member, Board of Studies, Department of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore
- American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
- International society for infectious diseases
- World Society for Virology
- International Veterinary Vaccine Network
Project:
Title |
Funding Agency |
Amount (Millions) |
Status |
Production and Evaluation of Recombinant Foot-and-Mouth disease Virus-like Particles (VLPs) for the Effective Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Pakistan (PI) |
HEC |
9.93 |
Approved |
Construction of Glycoprotein E deleted Bovine Herpes Virus 1 using Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) Recombineering (PI) |
HEC |
0.5 |
Completed |
Papers Published:
- Raza S, Shahin F, Zhai W, Li H, Alvisi G, Yang K, et al. Ivermectin Inhibits Bovine Herpesvirus 1 DNA Polymerase Nuclear Import and Interferes with Viral Replication. Microorganisms. 2020;8. (Impact Factor: 4.167)
- Raza, S.; Siddique, K.; Rabbani, M.; Yaqub, T.; Anjum, A.A.; Ibrahim, M.; Azhar, M.; Jamil, F.; Rasheed, M.A. In silico analysis of four structural proteins of aphthovirus serotypes revealed significant b and t cell epitopes. Microb Pathog 2019, 128, 254-262. (Impact Factor: 2.33)
- Sohail Raza, GA, Farzana Shahin, Urooj Husain, Masood Rabbani,Tahir Yaqub, Aftab Ahmad Anjum, Ali Ahmad Sheikh, Muhammad Nawaz and Muhammad Asad Ali. Role of Rab GTPases in HSV-1 infection: Molecular understanding of viral maturation and egress. Microbial Pathogenesis. 2018;118:146-53. (Impact Factor: 2.009).
- Rasheed MA, Ansari AR, Ihsan A, Navid MT, Ur-Rehman S, Raza S. Prediction of conserved sites and domains in glycoproteins B, C and D of herpes viruses. Microb Pathog. 2018;116:91-9. (Impact Factor: 2.009).
- Shahin F, Raza S, Yang K, Hu C, Chen Y, Chen H, et al. Bovine herpesvirus 1 tegument protein UL21 plays critical roles in viral secondary envelopment and cell-to-cell spreading. Oncotarget. 2017;8:94462-80 (Impact Factor: 5.168).
- Rais Ahmed KM, Masood Rabbani, Muhammad Sarwar khan, Asad Ali, Saira Naureen, Faria kanwal, Sohail Raza, Amjad Islam Aqib, Haleema Sadia and Yung-Fu-Chang. Phylogenetic Analysis of Soil Borne Brucella Species by Targeting Insertion Sequence 711 Element in Punjab-Pakistan. International JournaL of Agriculture & Biology. 2017. (Impact Factor: 0.75)
- Sohail Raza, Mingliang Deng, Farzana Shahin, Kui Yang, Changmin Hu, Yingyu Chen, Huanchun Chen and Aizhen Guo. A bovine herpes virus 1 pUL51 deletion mutant shows impaired viral growth in vitro and reduced virulence in rabbits.2016.Oncotarget, doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.7771. (Impact Factor: 6.359).
- Mingliang Deng, Sukun Ji, Wentao Fei, Sohail Raza, Chenfei He, Yingyu Chen, Huanchun Chen, Aizhen Guo. Prevalence study and genetic typing of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) in members of Bos taurus and Bubalus bubalus in China. Plos one. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134777. (Impact Factor: 3.534).
- Raza S, Rabbani M, Ahmad N, Sheikh AA, Muhammad K, Akhtar F and Rehman HU. Uterine Microbial Flora of Nili-Ravi Buffalo during Estrus and its Relationship with Pregnancy Rate in Pakistan. Buffalo Bulletin. 2013; 32:564-567. (Impact Factor: 0.06).
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