Muti-Ur-Rehman-Khan

Contact information

Email: drniazi@uvas.edu.pk
Cell: 0331-4970898
Phone: 92-42-99211449-50
Ext. 184
Prof. Dr. Muti-ur-Rehman Khan

Tenured Professor

DVM, M.Sc. Hons. (UAF), Ph.D. (GUCAS-Beijing)

HEC Approved Supervisor

Biography

Prof. Dr. Muti-ur-Rehman Khan Niazi is currently serving in the Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences (UVAS), Lahore-Pakistan. He did his matriculation with distinction, securing second position in district Mianwali with 86.82% marks from Govt. Central Model High School, Mianwali (1989), and got admission to a renowned Govt. College, Lahore (Ravian). Prof. Khan earned a DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) from the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Agriculture University, Faisalabad in 1996. He appeared in the Punjab Public Service Commission Examination and secured the first position three times in all of Punjab. Being merit number one, he got his first posting in the College of Veterinary Sciences, Lahore where he started his career as a Veterinary Officer and later transferred to the Department of Pathology where he was selected as a lecturer. He qualified for his M.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Pathology from the College of Veterinary Sciences, Lahore, and obtained 1st position in the Faculty securing 3.96/4.00 CGPA (81% marks) in 1998. Dr. Niazi was awarded the Overseas PhD Scholarship for Higher Studies by HEC, Pakistan (2005). He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Hematology (Hematopoietic Stem cells) from the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (2009) on his PhD thesis titled, “Studies on the Effect of hKirre (Kiaa 1867) and Condition Medium (CM) on the hematopoietic progenitor cells ex-vivo expansion and mechanism of self-renewal”.  An avowed researcher, his work has been published in prestigious international Journals and national journals.  Dr. Niazi has 62 international and 37 national publications on his account. He has produced 74 M.Phil and 09 PhD students.  He is running two research projects, one internationally funded and one from a national funding agency.

Area of Interest

  1. Investigations on emerging infections & diseases
  2. Ex-vivo expansion of hematopoietic and mesenchymal stem cells
  3. Use of adult stem cells for degenerative disorders of animals
  4. Research work on Platelets Rich Plasma applications in large and small animals
  5. Studies on pathological effects of indigenous plant poisons in animals
  6. Development of Molecular diagnostic techniques for various infectious diseases of livestock and poultry
  7. Pathological studies on diseases of livestock and poultry.

Publications

Administrative and Co-Curricular Responsibilities

  1. Advisor/ Class in charge of DVM 2nd Year Both Morning and Evening Groups
  2. Advisor Punjab Public Service Commission
  3. Secretary Departmental Board of Studies from July 2017 –Till todate
  4. Secretay Faculty (FVS) Synopsis Sucrutiny Committee
  5. Member, Postgraduate Synopsis Scrutiny Committee, Department of Pathology
  6. Project coordinator of the post-graduate evening program in the Department of Pathology
  7. Focal Person for Plagiarism Software
  8. Post Mortem Examination/Vetero-legal cases dealings
  9. Tutor of group AC-1
  10. Principal and Co-Principal investigator of Research Projects, new projects submission and evaluations
  11. Advisory services to Ph.D./ M.Phil students within the Department and University
  12. Training of Endnote software to postgraduate students
  13. Member Technical Committee to scrutinize the applications for post-graduate admissions of the Department of Pathology, UVAS, Lahore
  14. Resource person for Chinese Language course at UVAS, Lahore
  15. Member thesis defense committee of Faculty of Veterinary Science, UVAS, Lahore
  16. Member, Academic Staff Association, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
  17. Member, Board of Examination for Ph.D comprehensive examination, University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore
  18. External Examiner, postgraduate thesis examination in various universities
  19. Regular Member of a team that organizes workshops, conferences, and events at the Departmental, Faculty, and University level.

In co-curricular pursuit, Dr. Niazi arranges welcome parties given in honor of the new doctor of veterinary medicine session every year. In student life, he won first prize in a quiz competition on PTV Lahore representing UAF in 1995. Dr. Niazi remained the best player of Kabadi in district Mianwali from 1984 to 1989.

National Events Organized

  1. Five Days hands-on-training on Histopathology workshops at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore held from 12-16 June 2017
  2. Workshop on Bio Risk Management and Safety organized by Pak. One Health Alliance, University of Health Sciences, Lahore held on 28-29 July 2016
  3. Two days training workshop, “How to use the Statistical Tools in Research Publications” at Department of Statistics and Computer Sciences, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore held on 09-10 August 2016
  4. Congo virus infection: a public awareness seminar at CEMB in collaboration with the Congress of Molecular Biology (CMB) and Gulls’ Association held on 05 September 2016
  5. National Workshop on “Recent advances in necropsy practice in livestock and poultry; its veterolegal implications” at UVAS, Lahore held on 25-27 February 2015
  6. National Workshop on “The improvement of Livestock sector in Pakistan through a combined approach of Molecular and Population Genetics”. 2013. University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan, June 25-26, 2013
  7. Two Days workshop on Molecular diagnostics organized by the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, UVAS Lahore held on 11-12 January 2011
  8. Use of Endnote Software for Citation and Referencing in Research, Directorate of Research, Feb 2011. University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
  9. Workshop on Citation and Referencing in Research, Directorate of Research, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore held on November 3-2011
  10. National Biotechnology Exhibition and Seminar organized by HEC/Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, UVAS Lahore held on 20-21 October 2010

AS PARTICIPANT:

  1. National workshop on intellectual property protection for inventions related to agriculture and animal sciences at the University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore-Pakistan. October 9-10, 2017.
  2. National Awareness Conference on “Tuberculosis a Zoonosis” organized by Quality Operations Laboratory, UVAS, Lahore held on April 16, 2013
  3. National Necropsy Workshop at University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore-Pakistan. September 19-24, 2011.
  4. One-day workshop on “Construction of standard MCQ” Organized by Centre of Educational Policy and Administration, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore held on 20th of March, 2010
  5. Two Days National Workshop on Animal Forensic: DNA fingerprinting held on 21st and 22nd September 2010 UVAS Lahore
  6. National Conference on Bioinformatics – Opening Up New Frontiers in Molecular Biology Research, University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore-Pakistan. May 14-15, 2010
  7. International Conference on Recent Trends in Animal Genomics, June 25-26, 2009, Organized by the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
  8. PARB workshop on planning and writing quality project proposals held from 9th to 11th Nov.2009 at Agriculture House Davis Road Lahore
  9. 6th Asian Buffalo Congress 27th to 29th Oct., 2009 in PC Lahore Pakistan
  10. 34th Pakistan (SAARC) countries science conference at UVAS, Lahore Pakistan which was held on 20-22 February 2006
  11. International two-day Nutrition Conference at PC Lahore which was held on 1-2 December 2004

LIST OF PROJECTS (Completed / Approved / Submitted)

AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Project Title Funding Agency Worth Status
As Principal Investigator

Pathobiological investigations on Peste des Petitis Ruminants virus in Sheep and Goats (Award letter No: PD-IPFP/HRD/HEC/2013/1911(PI)

 Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan 0.50

million

 Completed
Genetic Diversity Among Marek’s Disease Field and Vaccine Viruses to Improve Prophylaxis NRPU, HEC 3.014 Million Completed
As Joint Investigator

Establishment of a sister laboratory for the diagnosis of infectious diseases of poultry in collaboration with Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. (CPEC project)

  

Ministry of Science and Technology China

  

 

19.2

Million

  

 

 

 

Approved and going

 
Surveillance and Pathobiological Investigation against Contagious Ecthyma Virus Leading to the Development of Local ORF Vaccine PSF 2.62 million Approved and on-going
As Co-Principal Investigator

Prevalence, Molecular Characterization, and Control of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia in Domestic Ruminants of Punjab

 Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan  

1.88 million

  

Completed

LIST OF CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

AS RESOURCE PERSON:

International Events: Plenary Speaker

  1. Microbial Detection Technologies: Advances and Challenges at 13th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST), Islamabad, Pakistan held on 12-16 January 2016
  2. Muti-ur-Rehman Khan. Emerging Infectious Diseases and Public Health Threat at 12th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology Islamabad, Pakistan held on 13-17 January 2015
  3. MutiRehman Khan,IjazAli,Yun Wang,Saima Masood, Wei Jiao, Meifu Feng. Ex vivo expansion of functional human UCB-HSCs/HPCs by novel condition medium at 5th China-Europe symposium on Biomaterials in Regenerative Medicines at Hangzhou, China held on 07 - 10 April 2015.
  4. Cold Spring Harbor Asia meeting: Bioinformatics of Human and Animal Genomics. November 14-18, 2011 Organized by: Ewan Birney, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, England Lincoln Stein, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research & CSHL, Canada Jun Wang, Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, China ZhipingWeng, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA.

Oral Presenter:

  1. 37th All Pakistan Science Conference organized by the Pakistan Association for the Advancement of Science (PAAS) held on 16-17 November 2015
  2. Tackling contaminations in mammalian cell cultures. Institute of Zoology, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China held on 05-03-2009
  3. International Conference on Role of stem cell technology in animal sciences 04-05 December 2009. HEC/Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, UVAS, Lahore
  4. 2ndInternational Congress of Food Hygiene, April 30 - May 1, 2011, in Tehran-Iran
  5. International Conference on Latest Techniques for Conservation of Animal Genetic Resources in Pakistan, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore held on 14-15 September 2011
  6. Applications of siRNA in Cell Biology Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China held on 08 November 2008

National Events:

  1. International Workshop on Pathology of Avian Diseases (13th – 15th November 2018) at Department of Pathology, UVAS, Lahore
  2. International Seminar on Infectious Bursal Disease and Avian Influenza (26th September 2018) at Department of Pathology, UVAS, Lahore
  3. National Hands-on training workshop on necropsy practice (23rd – 24th April 2018) at the Department of Pathology, UVAS, Lahore
  4. Five Days hands-on-training on Histopathology workshops at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore held from 12-16 June 2017
  5. Workshop on Bio Risk Management and Safety organized by Pak. One Health Alliance, University of Health Sciences, Lahore held on 28-29 July 2016
  6. Two days training workshop, “How to use the Statistical Tools in Research Publications” at Department of Statistics and Computer Sciences, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore held on 09-10 August 2016
  7. Congo virus infection: a public awareness seminar at CEMB in collaboration with the Congress of Molecular Biology (CMB) and Gulls' Association held on 05 September 2016
  8. National Workshop on "Recent advances in necropsy practice in livestock and poultry; its veterolegal implications" at UVAS, Lahore held on 25-27 February 2015
  9. National Workshop on “The improvement of Livestock sector in Pakistan through a combined approach of Molecular and Population Genetics”. University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan,June 25-26, 2013
  10. Two Days workshop on Molecular diagnostics organized by the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, UVAS Lahore held on11-12 January 2011
  11. Use of Endnote Software for Citation and Referencing in Research, Directorate of Research, Feb 2011. University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
  12. Workshop on Citation and Referencing in Research, Directorate of Research, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore held on November 3-2011
  13. National Biotechnology Exhibition and Seminar organized by HEC/Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, UVAS Lahore held on 20-21 October 2010

B. AS PARTICIPANT:

  1. Participated in the 38th All Pakistan Science Conference held on 10th-11th December 2018 at New Campus, University of Punjab, Lahore
  2. Participated in One Day Workshop entitled, “Intellectual Property Rights and Requirements of Patent Filing” held on 2nd May 2019 organized by TISC
  3. Attended two days “International Poultry Expo 2019 and Poultry Science Conference” on 13th-15th September 2019 organized by the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore in collaboration with Pakistan Poultry Association in Lahore.
  4. Attended two days "International Poultry Expo 2019 and Poultry Science Conference" on 27th-29th September 2018 organized by the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore in collaboration with Pakistan Poultry Association in Lahore.
  5. National workshop on intellectual property protection for inventions related to agriculture and animal sciences at University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore-Pakistan. October 9-10, 2017.
  6. National Awareness Conference on “Tuberculosis a Zoonosis” organized by Quality Operations Laboratory, UVAS, Lahore held on April 16, 2013
  7. National Necropsy Workshop at University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore-Pakistan. September 19-24, 2011.
  8. A one-day workshop on "Construction of standard MCQ" Organized by the Centre of Educational Policy and Administration, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore held on 20th of March, 2010
  9. Two Days National Workshop on Animal Forensic: DNA fingerprinting held on 21st and 22nd September 2010 UVAS Lahore
  10. National Conference on Bioinformatics – Opening Up New Frontiers in Molecular Biology Research, University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore-Pakistan. May 14-15, 2010
  11. International Conference on Recent Trends in Animal Genomics, June 25-26, 2009, Organized by the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
  12. PARB workshop on planning and writing quality project proposals held from 9th to 11th 2009 at Agriculture House Davis Road Lahore
  13. 6th Asian Buffalo Congress 27th to 29th 2009 in PC Lahore Pakistan
  14. 34th Pakistan (SAARC) countries science conference at UVAS, Lahore Pakistan which was held on 20-22 February 2006
  15. International two-day Nutrition Conference at PC Lahore which was held on 1-2 December 2004