Srinagar, Sept. 24 -- Dr Manzoor Ahmad Mir, Head of the Department of Bioresources, University of Kashmir, has once again earned a spot in Stanford University's prestigious list of the world's top two percent scientists. This is the second consecutive year that the cancer researcher from Kashmir has received the recognition.

Specialising in triple negative breast cancer, Dr Mir is regarded as one of the valley's leading scientific minds. He completed his Ph.D. in Cancer Immunology at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) through IMTECH-CSIR before topping the J&K Public Service Commission's list for Assistant Professors in 2009. He went on to serve as the first nodal officer of Kashmir University's Kupwara campus in 2011. The following year,...