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HIGHLIGHTS
2020

Government College
University Lahore

GCU research wins first prize at dengue conference

oology Department's research the conference held under the auspices her team on winning the award He said
on “transfection of locally of provincial Primary and Secondary dengue was becoming an epidemic in
Zisolated Wolbachia in Aedes Healthcare Department. Pakistan with over 400 deaths since
aegypti” has won the first prize and cash Giving details of the research, Prof. 2006. In 2019, more than 47,000
award of Rs. 100,000/- at the Jahan said that this transfection was positive cases including 75 deaths from
international conference on "Dengue aimed at blocking the transmission of Punjab, KPK and other provinces
Prevention and Control" organized by dengue virus to humans through its indicated an alarming situation with
the Punjab government here at a local bite. She said that Wolbachia made the tremendous risk of future epidemics in
hotel. Punjab Health Minister Dr. Yasmin mosquito incapable of carrying and Pakistan.
Rashid handed over the cash award to transmitting dengue virus. Prof. Zaidi said that the university would
principal researcher Prof. Dr. Nusrat Vice Chancellor Prof. Asghar Zaidi provide every possible support to
Jahan at the concluding ceremony of congratulated Prof. Nusrat Jahan and Zoology Department for their research.

GCU to have Har Gobind Khorana Chair

he Government College University t
(GCU) will establish a chair in the
Tname of its alumni Har Gobind
Khorana, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize
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Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Asghar Zaidi
announced this at ceremony to celebrate
the 98th birth anniversary of one of its
most eminent alumni, Prof Khorana.
Prof Khorana, an American-Indian, won
the Nobel Prize in 1968 for unraveling the
nucleotide sequence of RNA and
deciphering the genetic code. He died in
2011.
Vice Chancellor Prof. Zaidi said the GCU in Multan in 1922 became the world's top he genetic code of the cell and control
would soon establish a Research Chair biochemist and shared the 1968 Nobel the cell's synthesis of proteins.”
at its Chemistry Department in the name Prize for Medicine with Marshall W Later, Dr. Asghar Zaidi along with other
Prof Khorana. Talking about the Nirenberg and Robert W Holley for academic and administrative heads cut
fascinating story of Prof Khorana, he research that showed the order of the Prof Khorana's birth anniversary
said: “A child born in small Raipur village nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry cake.

Ravian officer

embraces martyrdom

in air crash
baadur Rehman, a flying officer and former
student of GC University Lahore, has
Iembraced #martyrdom when an aircraft of
the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was crashed on a
training mission near Mianwali. The funeral
prayers of Ibaadur Rehman were offered near
his residence in Wapda Town, Lahore. Besides
PAF officials, GCU Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr
Asghar Zaidi, senior faculty members and a
large number of students attended the funeral.