Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Research Projects

Completed projects

Title

Budget

Funding agency

Evaluating Milk Performance of Local and Exotic Cattle Breeds through SNP detection

3.23 
million

Science Foundation (PSF)

Identification of Molecular Markers for Fecundity in Goat Breeds of

7.680 million

Agricultural Linkages Program (ALP)

Genetic diversity of Pakistani Sheep and Goat breeds by analysis of mitochondrial D-Loop region.

4.82  million

Higher Education Commission (HEC)

"Molecular characterization of thermostable amylase from locally isolated thermophile Geobacillus SBS-4S"  

0.5 mollion

Higher Education Commission

Nutritional enhancement of Agriculture wastes and its use in Animal feeding

9 million

Punjab Agriculture Research Board (PARB)

Development of molecular markers to screen the Mastitis resistant and susceptible animals

 0.5 Million

Higher Education Commission (HEC)

Molecular Characterization of FAH Gene involved in Tyrosinemia

0.5 million

Higher Education Commission

Identification of molecular markers for milk production traits in bovine

0.5 million

Higher Education Commission

Microarray based genotyping study of childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) patients from Punjab

7.5 million

Higher Education Commission

Bioconversion of agricultural by-products to polyhydroxybutyrate by Azotobacter vinelandii using submerged fermentation

0.5 million

Higher Education Commission

Ongoing projects

Title

Funding Agency

Budget 

Principle Investigator

Production of foot & Mouth Diseases (FMD) recombinant Vaccine

Punjab Agriculture Research Board (PARB)

30.91Million

Dr. Ali Raza Awan

Development of novel molecular diagnostic assays for economically important infectious diseases of livestock

Punjab Agriculture Research board

8.65 Rs Million

Dr Muhammad Imran

 Development of loop mediated isothermal amplification based field test for the rapid detection of Brucella abortusf

 Agricultural Linkages Program (ALP) − Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC)

2.02 million

Dr Muhammad Imran

Bioconversion of agricultural by-products to polyhydroxybutyrate by Azotobacter vinelandii using submerged fermentation

Higher Education Commission

0.5 million

Dr Shagufta Saeed

Development of novel molecular diagnostic assays for economically important infectious diseases of livestock

Punjab Agriculture Research board

8.65 Rs Million

Dr. Muhmmad Imran

Molecular Analysis of Inborn Errors of Metabolism in Pakistan

HEC

4.90 Million

Dr. M. Yasir Zahoor

Development of Molecular Based approach for the verification of  labelling/mislabeling of halal commercial products available in Pakistan

Higher Education Commission

3.88 Million

Dr. Wasim Shehzad

Development of Molecular based identification of halal meat species from diverse sampling sources

Higher Education Commission

3.32 Million

Dr. Wasim Shehzad

Development of loop mediated isothermal amplification based field test for the rapid detection of Brucella abortus

Agricultural Linkages Program (ALP) − Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC)

2.02 Million

Dr Muhammad Imran

Cytotoxic and genotoxic evaluation of Calotropis procera  on bovine peripheral blood lymphocytes.

Higher Education Commission

2.6 Million

Dr Muhammad Mudassir Ali

Genotoxic and carcinogenic assessment of Heavy Metal–Contaminated Soil and water in human blood and bovine milk samples from the different industrial zones of Punjab, Pakistan.

Higher Education Commission

2.645632 Million/-PKr

Dr Muhammad Mudassir Ali

Identification of Superior Buffalo Bulls of Nili Ravi Breed for Increasing Milk Production through Selection by estimation of Breeding Values and Genome Analyses

Punjab Agriculture Research board

41.51 Million

Dr. Wasim Shehzad