Yasir Waheed Email & Phone Number

I am working as Professor and Head of Department of Research at NUST School of Health Sciences, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. My university is ranked at 353 position in QS World University Rankings 2025.I am a Member of Pakistan Academy of Sciences, which is a pool of highest scientific talent in Pakistan to promote higher education and research in the country.I am positioned among Top 2% highly cited scientists of the world, in last five consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024), by a research study conducted by Prof. John PA Ioannidis from Stanford University, USA and Elsevier. I have expertise in Virology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Clinical Research, Bioinformatics and Disease Burden Estimation. I have a long list of International Research Papers including papers in the world’s leading journals e.g. The Lancet, Nature, British Medical Journal and Journal of American Medical Association. My research work got over 97,000 citations in Google Scholar. I presented my research work in different countries including USA, UK, Canada, Japan, China, Netherlands, Taiwan, Brazil, South Korea and Uzbekistan.I conducted many trainings on research papers writing & publishing and research grant writing in different Universities of Pakistan.

Listed skills include Virology, Immunology, Cell, Infectious Diseases, and 46 others.