London | UK 
Prof. Dr. Faisal Saeed Awan
Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology,Pakistan
Dr. Faisal Saeed Awan is a Professor at the Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, where he has served since 2002. He earned his Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Genetics from the same university (2008), studying photosynthesis-related gene tagging in Arabidopsis mutants, and completed postdoctoral research on sugarcane genetic transformation at the University of Florida (2011–2012). His research spans plant genomics, molecular marker development, DNA fingerprinting, genetic diversity analysis, and genome-wide association mapping across wheat, soybean, maize, cotton, citrus, and date palm. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, is an HEC-approved Ph.D. supervisor, and received the Research Productivity Award (2012) from the Pakistan Council of Science and Technology. He is a member of the Pakistan Botanical Society and the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology, and currently serves as Secretary of the 2nd BSP Biotechnology Congress.