Muhammad Akhtar FRS (Urdu: محمد اختر; born 23 February 1933) is a British-Pakistani biochemist, and former Director General of the School of Biological Sciences, at the University of the Punjab.
He spent the years 1959 to 1963 doing science research in Cambridge, Massachusetts before moving to the University of Southampton, UK as a lecturer, then reader and then Professor of Biochemistry (1973-1978).
[1] He was a founding fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1984 and a director of the SERC Centre for Molecular Recognition from 1990-1994.
He was appointed Director General of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan in 2002.
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