Harvard Invites Pakistani
Neurologist
Lahore:
A Pakistani neurologist has been invited by Harvard Medical
University in Boston to conduct research. Dr Asif Hashmi,
a consultant physician working as the University of Health
Sciences Controller of Examinations, has been invited by Professor
Christopher Walsh.
Walsh is regarded as among the top American medical scientists
by the Howard-Hughes Medical Institute. The team will attempt
to identify new genes related to disorders of human cerebral
cortical development. Dr Hashmi said that he would primarily
be focusing on children born from marriages between cousins.
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