Draft:Bilal Haider Abbasi

Dr. Bilal Haider Abbasi (born January 9, 1975) is a tenured professor and researcher at the Department of Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Quaid-I-Azam University, Pakistan. He has been selected for the prestigious Le-Studium Research Fellowship at Université de Tours, France, twice, in 2018–2019 and from May to December 2023. One of Dr. Abbasi's areas of expertise lies in medicinal plant biotechnology. His expertise has been recognized by his inclusion in the Top 2% Scientist List by Stanford University in 2020. He has also established and is incharge of the plant cell culture lab at the Department of Biotechnology, Quaid-i-Azam University. During his tenure at the Quaid-I-Azam University, he has received numerous accolades, such as the Performance Based Award from Quaid-i-Azam University in 2021 and 2014, a Gold Medal for Biotechnology from the Pakistan Academy of Sciences in 2016, and the Best Young Researcher Gold Medal from Quaid-i-Azam University in 2014. Dr. Abbasi's publication record includes 198 research articles with 6,564 citations on the Web of Science and 11,208 citations on Google Scholar. Dr. Abbasi has supervised 16 Ph.D. and 90 MPhil students. He is an active member of scientific organizations like the Asian Federation of Biotechnology (since 2022), the Pakistan Academy of Sciences (since 2014), and the Pakistan Biological Safety Association.