Dr. Rizwan Ur Rehman

Assistant Professor

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PROFILE SUMMARY

If you are looking for a professional in the diversified domains of protein proteolytic and lipolytic attributes, bioavailability of nutrients, gene expression profile and gene knock down technology, maintaining cell lines and plant therapeutic bioactive compounds, meet with Dr. Rizwan-ur-Rehman, currently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biosciences , CUST, Islamabad. My first professional achievement that I was blessed with winning HEC Indigenous Scholarship for Ph.D in year 2004 right after completion of M.Sc. (Hons.). In year 2005, I joined a financial institution and the job was culminated when I won HEC UESTP Scholarship that provided me an opportunity to have access to high-Tech labs of France. I worked on two projects titled “Biovailability of alpha casozepine using Caco2 cell lines” and “Impact of tight junction proteins on differentiation and proliferation of placental cells using Bewo and Jeg cell lines”. I was much fascinated when I won Chinese Government Scholarship to accomplish my highest ambition of PhD in China where I worked on a novel lactic acid producing strain Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens ZW3 and its impact on structural and textural attributes, fermentation, lipolytic and proteolytic profile of milk proteins and lipids.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad	Since – 2023
Assistant Professor/HOD	University of Management and Technology	2019 – 2023
Assistant Professor (Visiting)	Allama Iqbal Open University	2017 – 2017

MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
I established Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Food and Agricultural Sciences at University of Management and Technology. The Department was formally approved from University of Management and Technology Academic Council in 2020. The Department is planning to conduct formal accreditation visit of National Agriculture Education Accreditation Council. The Department is in process of getting MoUs between different academic institutions as well as different food processing industries. I was the part of the team who designed new and well managed curriculum of BS Food Human Nutrition and Dietetics, BS Food Safety and Quality Management and MS Human Nutrition and Dietetics. The new curriculum meets the demand of growing economy of Pakistan and well as industrial needs. The curriculum is integrated with different Agriculture oriented subjects that trains the young force with basic agriculture, human health and nutrition, food processing and quality judging tools and expertise. Recently, I got NOC to run Ph.D Human Nutrition from HEC, Pakistan. I have been the part of different statutory bodies including BOS, BOF and ACM of the university. I have been involved in presiding the committee that dealt with the completion of necessary documentation regarding the NAEAC visit and later on successfully conducted the NAEAC visit.

HONORS & AWARDS
1.	Won NRPU project titles “Isolation and Identification of therapeutic agents involved in the activation of PPAR-? to ameliorate Type 2 Diabetes” amounting 6.628 million rupees in year 2022.
2.	2 DICE Projects in the domain of food valorization and immunity enhancer therapeutic agents
3.	Sep 2013 Chinese Government Scholarship (CSC) for Ph.D
4.	Sep 2008 HEC scholarship under UESTP Program for France
5.	Aug 2006 HEC 5000 Indigenous scholarship program for MS leading to Ph.D
6.	Aug2004 HEC 5000 Indigenous scholarship program for MS leading toPh.D

RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS
1.	Textural and structural profile studies
2.	Health imparting phytochemicals and functional food product development
3.	Proteolytic and lipolytic attributes of lactic acid bacteria
4.	Relation of food properties and processing
5.	Bioavailability of bioactive peptides
6.	Gene knock down technique

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