Fozia Humayun

Since my childhood I was very hardworking, responsible and determined towards achieving my targets. I passed my matriculation from Shaheen Public School and intermediate from Govt. Degree Science College, Malir Cantt securing good grades throughout my entire academic tenure Alhamdulilah! I enrolled in the B.Sc (HON) program in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Karachi via Open Merit selection system. After graduating, I was qualified as an M.Sc in Biochemistry from Department of Biochemistry, University of Karachi.

Following the successful completion of 16 years education, I got the opportunity to work in Bentham Science Publishers as Assistant Manager which turned out to be a wonderful start of my career with enriched grooming and experience. It was this point in my life where my thirst for research-based study and profession led me to apply for the post of Research Assistant on PSF funded project at the world class institution ICCBS. These two years’ experience extensively boosted my intellect and research skills. My long-lasting desire to contribute something beneficial to the mankind motivated me to persuade towards higher studies. I was fortunately selected purely on merit basis in the M. Phil leading to Ph.D. program at ICCBS. I was lucky enough to be assigned under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Syed Abid Ali. I cleared my M. Phil course work with 3.34cGPA followed by qualifying ETS GRE Biochemistry. Exploring the world of research and technologies under such a learned and motivating supervision was really a blessing for me which groomed me in such a competitive environment.

I worked in the field of Protein chemistry. My Ph.D project was based on the characterization of different therapeutic proteins and peptides isolated from gastropods collected from the Sindh Coast Pakistan. It was an amazing experience and we came out with very interesting findings. Some part of my research work is already published, and some findings are yet to be published.
I got married during my Ph.D studies, but with my husband’s support and in laws cooperation I continued with my studies so there was no pause actually! Being mother of two cute children this journey was not at all so smooth for me, though it was full of hardships, compromises, sacrifices and struggle. I used to go to my institute with my 1st child and I kept him in the day care for the period of 2 years. I used to feed him and make him sleep during the intervals between my experiments and the trained caretakers there made sure that your baby is doing well. When my 2nd child (my daughter) was born I was done with all the research work and continued working from home like writing thesis and different research papers. Despite of all the hurdles, by the Grace of Almighty Allah and my supervisor’s support that I continued working on my project and remain focused.
In my opinion “No goal can be achieved individually rather it’s a teamwork” and I believe in this as I am fortunate to have been surrounded by a very supportive family specially my Mom and my sister. My family members played a very important role, their love, care and efforts made me able to achieve what I am today.
I am going to submit my thesis to the University very soon InshaAllah by the time I am looking for some job opportunity where I can excel both in research and academics. Urthermore, I want to extend my research work towards the direction of Anticancer proteins from gastropods and their use in cancer therapy

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Humayun, F, Munir, I., Haider, M.S., Ayub, Z., & Ali, S.A. (2020). The molecular and biochemical characterization of two Marine Gastropods of the Genus Nerita. Pakistan. Biologia (Pakistan). 66(1), 47-59.
Arsalan, A., Ahmad, I., Ali, S. A., Qadeer, K., Mahmud, S., Humayun, F., & Beg, A. E. (2020). The kinetics of photostabilization of cyanocobalamin in liposomal preparations. International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 52(3), 207-217.
Humayun, F., Ayub, Z., Haider, M.S., & Ali S.A. (2018). Morphological identification, molecular bar-coding and nutritional value of Siphonaria species from Sindh Coast, Pakistan. Biologia (Pakistan), 65(1), 1-10.
Ali, S.A., Humayun, F., Munir, I., Ahmad, S., Ayub, Z., Fatima, H., Zehra, L., & Haider, M.S. (2018). Morphological, Molecular, Biochemical and Nutritional Characterization of three major Thais species from the Sindh Coast of Pakistan. The Open Food Science Journal, 10, 33-45.
Korejo, F., Ali, S.A., Humayun, F., Rahman, A., Sultana, V., Ara, J., & Haque, S.E. (2019). Management of root rotting fungi and root knot nematode with endophytic fluorescent Pseudomonas associated with Salvadora species. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 51(4), 1507-1516.
Korejo, F., Noreen, R., Ali, S. A., Humayun, F., Rahman, A., Sultana, V., & Haque, S.E. (2017). Evaluation of antibacterial and antifungal potential of Endophytic Fluorescent Pseudomonas associated with Salvadora persica l. and salvadora oleoides decne. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 49, 1995-2004