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HistoVault v1: Pakistan’s First AI-Powered Histopathology Dataset is Here!
Imagine a world where cancer diagnoses are faster, more accurate, and accessible to everyone—regardless of where they live. That’s the future we’re building with

Oxford Alumni of Pakistan Hosts National Dialogue on the Country’s Persistent “Permacrises”
An Eventful Day of Insights, Action Plans, and Music at Governor’s House, KP On September 2, 2024, a one-day event, hosted by the Oxford

Celebrating the Pioneers of Tomorrow’s Research!
The Precision Medicine Lab (PML) at Rehman Medical Institute (RMI) recently celebrated the achievements of its fifth batch of summer interns, marking another successful

Reshaping the Infrastructure of Pakistan – One Map at a Time!
In September 2024, Pakistan witnessed its first-ever hybrid nationwide Mapathon—a landmark event in civic tech and community engagement. Organized by Code for Pakistan, the

PML Grads Ready to Tackle Pakistan’s Biggest Health Challenges
In a momentous ceremony held at the Rehman Medical Institute, ten brilliant young medics from across Pakistan officially graduated from the Precision Medicine Lab’s

Abbottabad University (AUST) hosted PML Hacks 1K Innovation Challenge.
Abbottabad, Pakistan (Feb 02, 2022) The Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) of Abbottabad University of Science and Technology (AUST) in collaboration with

BUITEMS-PML Integrative Biology Symposium 2021
Scientists fro Quetta and Peshawar come together for an Integrative Biology Symposium Quetta/Peshawar – Twelve leading researchers, six from each side, presented their latest

Digital health startups, CalKitna and GlucoBuddy, secure starter funds
Peshawar, Pakistan – CalKitna, a calorie watch app for local food, and GlucoBuddy, a low-cost glucose measuring device for the masses, secure starter funding

Biologists, Doctors and Engineers seed 6 new startups into Peshawar’s Biomedical Cluster
The Precision Medicine Lab held a 3-day event around innovation in healthcare. Dubbed as PML Hacks, the event brought together young professionals from different

Global experts, including Dr Khan, publish white paper on Genomic Data Policy and Ethics
The COVID19 pandemic has exposed gross inequalities in the global health care system including the lack of understanding on how the disease is affecting

Four high-school mavericks complete their internship at the Lab
The Precision Medicine Lab hosted four of the brightest high schoolers around as part of our first edition of the Summer Internship programme. This

PML Cancer Symposium 2020
The PML Cancer Symposium was held on August 31, 2020 at the RMC Auditorium that for the first time showcased what has been happening

Making the best of your interview
Interviews are an integral part of any recruitment process and play a pivotal role in the assessment of a candidate. It goes without saying

Cluster hiring via selection conference
We, at PML, are back to work in full swing since June 1, 2020. Right before the whole country went into lockdown we were

CECOS University students visit the Precision Medicine Lab
The PML hosted around 30 Bachelor and Master students from IIB ,CECOS University on 17th January 2020. Technical Lead Dr. Habib Jan welcomed the

Annual Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BigC 2019)
Precision Medicine Lab attended the annual the workshop on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BigC 2019) at Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering

18th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium
The 18th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium was held from the 1st to the 3rd of November, 2019 in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians

Precision Medicine Lab at the Digital Youth Summit 2019
The Digital Youth Summit (DYS) is a technology focused conference that takes place annually in Peshawar, Pakistan. Since its inception in 2014, DYS has

Dr Faisal Khan at the Google DevFest Peshawar 2019
Google DevFest Peshawar 2019 is a celebration of Peshawar’s innovation with the help of technology gathering speakers, trainers, and attendees from all around the globe.

PI Dr. Faisal Khan becomes a part of Pakistan’s first ever National Youth Council (NYC)
Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved the establishment of the National Youth Council (NYC) for development of the youth of the country. The council

Dr. Johar Ali nominated as PM’s task force member on technology driven knowledge economy
The Government of Pakistan has decided to set up a task force to constitute technology driven knowledge economy in the country. Our Co-PI, Dr.

Dr Khan mentors at the Global Surgery Hackathon at AKU [Feb 7, 2019]
Dr Faisal Khan, Principal Investigator, Precision Medicine Lab attended the Global Surgery Conference 2019 at the Agha Khan University last weekend where he was

New Positions Open! 5 reasons why you should join the Precision Medicine Lab
The Precision Medicine is recruiting fulltime technical and non-technical staff including young scientists in the area of computer science (applied statistics, data science and

Dr Johar Ali speaks at the Oral Cancer Genomic Seminar
The Rehman College for Dentistry and the RMI Center for Genomic Sciences co-organized a seminar on Oral Cancer Genomics where, Dr Johar Ali, co-PI

Dr Johar Ali nominated as inaugural Vice President of the Genome Society
The inaugural Executive Committee Meeting of the newly established Genome Society, Pakistan was held at RMI on December 4, 2018. Dr Johar Ali and

Dr Faisal Khan at Harvard Medical School
Our PI, Dr Faisal Khan has been inducted into the Cancer Biology and Therapeutics programme at Harvard Medical School. The programme is led by

Our PI at the Global Community Bio Summit at MIT
Dr Faisal Khan, PI of the precision medicine lab, and Sarah Farooq, both attended the Global Community Bio Summit held at the MIT Media

Our PI, interviewed by MIT Technology Review Pakistan
Dr Faisal Khan, our PI has been interviewd for his pioneering work in synthetic biology in Pakistan by MIT Technology Review Pakistan. The interview

Dr Faisal Khan comments on Pakistani science in Nature
Ehsan Masood, author and science commentator from the UK, writes a piece on the post-election scenario of the science sector in Pakistan where he

Meet the co-PI, Dr Johar Ali
Dr Johar Ali is a pioneer in the field of genomics with his 25 years of experience spanning the historic Human Genome Project until

Meet the PI, Dr Faisal Khan
Dr Khan is a graduate of the University of Oxford, where he completed his doctoral studies at the intersection of Cell Biology and Systems Biology

Precision Medicine Lab, NCBC, launched
The inauguration of the National Center in Big Data and Cloud Computing took place at LUMS on May 4, 2018. The ceremony was attended