1. The Human Resources
Drexel University
Philadel[hia,PA. Dated: July 27th 2013.
Subject: Application for the Position of Assistant Director in Biology.
Dear Madam/Sir,
With reference to the advertisement in The Daily Inquirer For the position of
Assistant Director in Biology I would appreciate if you consider myself against that position and
oblige.
I know that I am sort of over-qualified for the position but I shall be delighted to accept, if
offered the opportunity. Although retired , I took a position of Consultant in The Shaukat
Khanum Hospital in Lahore, Pakistan for one year and returned in 2o12 after establishing a
cancer diagnostic laboratory.
I am quite sure that I have exceptionally broad background, since I had both classical as well as
parochial one. A bird ecologist, plant taxonomist, agrostologist and also cancer researcher.
Additionally wrote the biology Laboratory manual and gave lectures in Biology at Oklahoma
State University, Stillwater, Okla.,
Plant evolution and Philosophy of Science at Karachi University to Graduate students and
Medical Genetics At Crozer-Chester Medical Center , Chester, Pa.
Establish the first Department of Genetics in Karachi University and also taught Genetics and
Evolution there. Additionally, established a Cancer Research laboratory at university of
Pennsylvania and another such laboratory at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, PA.
A detailed resume’ is attached that is embarrassingly long with a list of nearly 89 publications. I
am a very healthy person both physically and mentally and shall be delighted to be useful
instead of wasting what I still can depart.
Thanking you,
Shamim A. Faruqi, Ph.D.
910 Stewart Avenue
Springfield, PA 19064.
Phone:610-543-0216
E-mail: shamim@zebraglobal.net
2. SHAMIM AHMAD FARUQI
910 Stewart Avenue
Springfield,PA 19064
Tel:(610) 543-0216 Res.
e-mail:shamim@zebraglobal.net
EDUCATION OklahomaState University
Stillwater,Okla., Ph.D.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, A.M.
Universityof Karachi
Karachi,Pakistan, B.Sc(Hon),M.Sc.
Employment ConsultantGeneticistandDirectorCytogenetics inThe Departmentof Pathology,to
establishCytogeneticCancerDiagnosticLaboratory onone year contract in
Shaukat KhanumCancerHospital andResearchCenter
Lahore, Pakistan,2011-2012.
Director:Division,Gyn/OncologyResearch
Crozer-ChesterMedical Center,Upland,PA 19013,Feb 2002-Dec. 2008.
Director,Gyn/OncologyResearchLaboratory
Crozer-ChesterMedical Center,Upland,PA 19013, April 1993-Feb 2002
CytogeneticSpecialist,Gyn/OncologyResearchLaboratory
Universityof Pennsylvania,Philadelphia,PA,Oct1989-April 1993.
Postdoctoral Fellow,HahnemannUniversity,
Philadelphia,PA,Sept,1987- March 1993.
Professorof Genetics,University of Fateh,Tripoli,Libya,Sept.1972-July1987.
3. ChairmanandAssociate Professor
Departmentof Genetics,Universityof Karachi,Pakistan,July1964-Sept1972.
Instructor andChair (year2)
CameronState Agriculture College,Lawton,OK,Aug,1962-July,1964.
AchievementsandExperiences
1.SpecializationinGenetics,especiallyHumanCancersandClinical CytogeneticswithNCA Certification
(currently expired).AlsofellowshipinHumanGeneticswithProfessorCaspersonatKarolinska
Institute,where Q-bandingwasdevelopedandHumangenome wasstandardizedbothbyProfessor
Casperson. AlsoworkedwithProfessorEdwardsof EdwardSyndrome inBritain.
2. A longteachingexperience bothatundergraduate (General Botany
andBiology,systematics) andGraduate (Genetics,evolution, Taxonomy, economicbotanyand
philosophyof science)levels,andteachingHumanGeneticsTo
ResidentsandMedical Students.Teachingbiologytomedicalstudents
fromSaudi ArabiainKarachi. AlsoteachingMedical Genetics andBiotechnology toResidents at
Crozer-ChesterMedical Center,Upland,PA.
3. Keynote speakeratthe 2007 CaribbeanandLatinAmericanScience
Conference inGeorge Town,Guyana.“Biologyasgoldstandardtowards
successof a Political andanEconomicsystem”.
4. Traced stepby stepmutationinthe etiologyandevolutionof alethal
endometrial carcinoma.
5. Establishedacell line NOU-1froma lethal endometrial carcinoma.
6. Through the inventionof a novel cell culture technique,diagnosedforthe
firsttime the presence of non-small celllungcancercellsfromdeviant
small-cell lungcancer.
7. Providedthe firstgeneticproof thatthe highlycontroversial etiologyof
Psuedomyxmomaperitonei,thatmalignancyintumorstartedfromthe
ovary (intwocases) and notin appendix andthroughthe ovarianroute it
migratedto appendix.
8. Proposedanddemonstratedanalternate pathinthe lossof
heterozygosity,originof cancersandotherhereditarydiseases,through
4. demonstrationof mitoticchromosomal pairingandchromatid
exchange amongnormal homologouschromosomesfrombloodand
amnio.
9. Demonstrated long range dispersal in a dioecious plant species through
apomixis and extended Baker’s Law.
10. Added one criterion to the Criteria for the Center of origin of Plants
earlier established by Darwin, de Candole and Vavilov.
11. Modified Muller's (Nobel Laureate) hypothesis on the distribution of polyploidy in plants and
animals.
12. Proposed in a series of papers the current hypothesis on the
survival of aneuploids in nature.
.
13. Providedcytogeneticevidence forgene controlledpreferential
pairingof chromosomesindifferentplantspecies.
14. USDA meritaward forthe successful completionof the project
cytogeneticsandbreedingsystemof Audroprogonae grassesof Pakistan.
15. Proposedanddemonstratedthe alternate pathinthe lossof
heterozygosity,originof cancersandotherhereditarydiseases
16. Research Coordinator for Poultry Institute of Government of Pakistan.
17. Member of Pakistan Cotton Committee (the body which decides the
cotton policy of Pakistan).
18. Through nominationbythe Vice Chancellorof the Karachi University
wrote the PakistanEducationPolicyand the UniversityLegislature at
the Central EducationMinistryat Islamabad..
19. Selectedtoestablishthe Departmentof GeneticsatKarachi University
and to be its firstChairman.
20. Radiotalkson Philosophyof Science,HumanEcology,Environmental
Polution,Geneticsandmanyscientifictopics. Articlesof similarnature
publishedinenglishmagazinesinPakistan.
5. 21. Completedtwoprojectsoncytogenetics,breedingsystemandgerm
plasmstudyof Libyanforage grasses. Alsowrote the bookPOACEAE
(grassesof Libyathat gotpublishedinsome othername).
22. ExploredToaand Moa Valleysof Cuba,Baluchistan,Himalayasof
Pakistan,Saharaof Libya,Tunisia,AlgeriaandMediterraneanCoast
from EgyptthroughMorocco for plantsandmore especiallygrasses.
23. Popularizationof ScienceinSouthOklahoma. Lecture series
sponsoredjointlybythe OklahomaAcademyof SciencesandNational
Science Foundation,USA.
24. Electedas Vice-PresidentandanotheryearasPresidentof Graduate
StudentsClub,Departmentof Botany,OklahomaState University,
Stillwater,Oklahoma.
19. Completedaresearchprojectasa volunteerworkerforthe United
StatesDepartmentof Interior,Bureauof SportsandFisheriesonfood
ecologyof three game birdsof Pakistanand theirintroductioninthe
UnitedStates.
20. Member of the Student Cabinet Karachi University Student Union,
held the portfolio of Library and Reading Room facilities.
21. Honored as Top One Student in B.Sc. (Hons) class in 1953 and M.Sc.
class in 1955 at Karachi University.
LanguagesSpoken:
URDU, ENGLISH, Arabic(a little).
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12. Substrate dependentgenomicheterogeneityinlungcancers.XIXintern
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14. In Vivomalignantandnormal cell fusionandoriginof polyploidyina
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15. Trisomy21 as the onlychromosomal anomalyinaclinicallyaggressive
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16. Chromosome analysisandcomparisonof the benignandsquamous
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17. Karyotypicstudyof two immature ovarianteratomasafter
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19. Genomicdifference withincysticandsquamouscomponentsof an
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23. Translocationatchromosomal weekpoints:Positive evidence inthree
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14. References
1. Dr. David Prescott
Professor retired: Bryn Mawr College
Home phone: 610-525-7434
Cell phone : 610-246-8043
2. Professor Harvey B. Spector, M.D.
Chair: Department of Histopathology
Crozer-ChesterMedical Center
Phone: 610-447-2218
E-mail: Harvey.spector@crozer.org
3. Professor Joel S. Noumoff, M.D.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Crozer-Chester Medical Center
Phone: 610-876-9640
E:mail: joel.noumoff@crozer.org
