Muhammad Sohail Sajid

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Sohail Sajid received his early education from the Kamalia and Khanewal and Higher Secondary education from Govt. Emerson College, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. He secured silver medal in his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF), Pakistan in 2002. Since then, he started his professional career as Lecturer in the Department of Parasitology, UAF while continuing in M.Sc. (Hons.) and Ph.D. in Parasitology. He served as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Chairman, and Member, Climate Change Chair of the US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security established through the USAID in the UAF, Pakistan and finally as Professor tenured. His thematic research area is molecular epidemiology and control of arthropods and arthropod-borne diseases of one health significance. His competitive successes include: Ph.D. fellowship sponsored by the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad, Pakistan, HEC-funded post-doc. fellowship from the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), Hattiesburg, MS, USAID-funded project through the HEC Pak-US S&T Cooperation Program (Phase IV), and the Fulbright Post-Doc. fellowship at UC Davis. So far, he has secured 10 grants as PI/ Co-PI and mentored more than 50 M.Phil. and 12 Ph.D. graduate students as Chairman/co-supervisor/ member. The Ministry of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan has awarded him competitive Research Productivity Awards consecutively for the 6 years (2010 to 2015). So far, he has published ~90 research papers in ISI indexed journals having IF of ~100, presented at various national and international conferences, one textbook, two chapters in an international book & 150 abstracts in proceedings. He is serving as Section Editor of the UAF's Official Journal "PJAS" (IF-0.785) from more than a decade and has edited a book published by the CABI, Oxfordshire, UK. He is the co-author of the first guidelines of the "Institutional Animal Care and Use" at the UAF. His hard work and commitment enabled him to achieve the top ranked academic position of the Tenured Professor of Parasitology in the Department of Parasitology, UAF, Pakistan.