Uzma Azeem Awan
National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS), Pakistan
Biography
Dr. Uzma Azeem Awan, working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS), Rawalpindi, Pakistan since 2018. She did her PhD (2017) from University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, and had completed research project from Nuclear Medicine Oncology and Radiotherapy institute (NORI-PAEC), Islamabad and Georgia institute of Technology, USA majoring in Nanomedicine with specialization in Cancer Nanotheranostics. Her research has included fabrication of nanomaterials and their biomedical applications in the field of cancer. She has been awarded with 4 research projects She has published 13 research articles, 3 review articles and 5 book chapters. Besides teaching she has presented her research work at various national and international forums. She is serving as a reviewer of several reputed journals like British Medical Journal. She is a member of American Chemical Society.
Abstract
Abstract : Near infra-red responsive nano-platform for gene knockdown in breast cancer