Dr. Muhammad Shakeel Ahmed Khan

Designation: Acting Dean of Management Sciences

Department: Department of Accounting & Finance

Specialization: N/A

Qualifications: Ph. D. (Biochemistry and Applied Molecular Biology/Biotechnology), UMIST, Manchester, UK.

Email: shakeel.khan@shu.edu.pk

Profile:

Prof. Shakeel Khan has more than 44 years of teaching, research and administrative experience. He has served the University of Karachi for more than 38 years. In addition to teaching and research, he worked in different capacities at the University of Karachi viz, Director, Student Guidance, Counselling, Placement Bureau & Overseas Examinations; Director, Admissions; Director, Biological Research Centre; In-charge, Students Financial Aid Office, University of Karachi. Supervised many Masters/M. Phil. & Ph. D. students. Published several research articles in well-reputed national and international journals. He was retired from the University of Karachi as a Tenured & Meritorious Professor.

Currently, Dr. Shakeel Khan is serving as Vice-Chancellor, Salim Habib University. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he is also teaching courses in the Department of Biosciences, Salim Habib University

Research Interest:

• Protein Engineering to create multi-enzyme complexes
• Gene-fusion studies
• Functional genomics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Baker’s yeast)
• Bioinformatics (Conceptual modelling of genomic information)
• Biotechnological applications of enzymes of industrial importance
• Antifungal metabolites of bacterial origin
• Bacteriocin and bacteriocin-like inhibitory substances (BLIS)
• Antinematicidal metabolites from Bacillus sp.
• Bioactive compounds of plant origin