Anwar Nasim (born 7 December 1935)[1] is a Pakistani molecular biologist and geneticist who was the president of Pakistan Academy of Sciences from 2015 to 2017.
[citation needed] Anwar was born in a village near Pasrur in Sialkot District of Pakistan.
[2] During this period he passed a sabbatical year (1978–79) at Max Planck Institute, Tübingen, Germany, and the Biology Department of Stanford University.
He was also member of the teaching faculty of the UNESCO Regional Training Course on gene cloning held in Singapore in 1983.
[2] In 1978 he was chairman of the organizing committee for the International Symposium on DNA repair, Mutation and Human III Health held in Ottawa, Canada.