Muhammad Ali Syed is currently serving as a professor in Microbiology at The University of Haripur. He is an experienced researcher and academician who served as a chairman of Department of Microbiology at The University of Haripur. His areas of interest include medical bacteriology, mechanism of antibiotic resistance, nanomedicine, molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases and vaccines. He has a long teaching and research experience in Microbiology in different countries such as Pakistan, USA, UK, China and Uganda. Waseem Ahmed serves as an Assistant Professor at Department of Agricultural Sciences of The University of Haripur Pakistan. His major area of interest is investigating bioactive compounds from medicinal plants for their potential applications as antimicrobial agents to cure multi-drug'¡resistant bacterial infections. He is a prolific researcher having significant research output as well as several international awards and recognitions on his credit. Prof.

Shahid Ahmad Abbasi graduated from Army Medical College, Rawalpindi in 1982. He obtained his membership in pathology from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1988 and completed his fellowship in microbiology in 1993. Over the course of his distinguished career in academic medicine, he served as Professor of Microbiology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology for twelve years. He is currently serving as Professor of Microbiology at the Fauji Foundation Hospital and Medical College, where he has been contributing to the institution for the past twelve years.