Srinagar, July 29 -- Junaid Nazir and Afnan Saleem, both PhD Scholars of SKUAST-K's Division of Animal Biotechnology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, under the guidance of Prof Mudasir Andrabi, have won highest level of recognition for their accomplishments at a very young age.

Afnan Saleem, has been awarded the INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. This fellowship is a recognition that places her among a group of young scientists in the country. Dr. Saleem is the first veterinarian and the first SKUAST-K scholar to receive the fellowship. Her doctoral work explored programmed cell death in bovine mammary gland infections. With 23 publications and two paten...