Pakistani Inventors - 9 Inventions of the recent years

These are not sorted in any order.

1. Fertilizers With Non-Explosive Materials

Source: http://www.dawn.com/news/789493/pakistani-firm-makes-ied-proof-fertiliser

Recently a Pakistani fertilizer company Fatima Group invented a new formula to make fertilizers that cannot be converted into bomb-making materials. Previously, Fertilizers with ammonium nitrate, however, can easily be converted into bomb-making ingredients.

2. Successful Brain-Silicon Chip Connection

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwoYZmm3prU

Dr. Naweed Syed is the first scientist who managed to "connect brain cells to a silicon chip". This Pakistani helped the world achieve a great milestone by proving the theory on Snail brain cells. This discovery will significantly help in the research of integrating computers with the human brains in order to assist people monitor vital signs control artificial limbs, correct memory loss or vision impairment.

3. Sagar Veena

Source: https://sanjannagar.wordpress.com/sagar-veena/

The Sagar Veena, use in classical music, was developed completely in Pakistan over the last 40 years by Raza Kazim at the Sanjannagar Institute, Lahore.

4. Human Development Index

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq devised the Human Development Index in 1990 in order to move the focus of development economics to people centered policies from national income accounting.

5. Lavatory That Transforms Human Waste into Charcoal, Minerals, And Clean Water

Source(s): http://www.bbc.com/news/business-19873478 , http://www.riazhaq.com/2012/08/british-pakistani-wins-reinvent-toilet.html

Pakistani researcher at Loughborough University, Sohail Khan designed a lavatory that converts human waste into biological charcoal, which can be burned, and clean water.

6. (c) Brain, One Of The First Computer Viruses

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_%28computer_virus%29

This virus was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in 1986 in Lahore, Pakistan to discourage piracy of the software they had made.

7. The Ommaya Reservoir

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ommaya_reservoir

Developed by Ayub K. Ommaya, the Ommaya reservoir is a system used for injecting the medicines into the cerebrospinal fluid for treatment of patients with brain tumours.

8. Pleuroperitoneal Shunt, Endotracheal Tube

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayed_Amjad_Hussain

A Pakistani American doctor from Peshawar Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain, Pakistan invented the Pleuroperitoneal Shunt and a Special Endotracheal Tube tube to supply oxygen during fiber-optic bronchoscopy in awake patients.

9. A Software Simulation To Reduce Death Rate In Bomb Blast

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/31036/learning-from-suicide-blasts/

A Pakistani computer scientist, Zeeshan-ul-Hassan Usmani, has introduced a Software simulation based on blast forensics designed by that claims to reduce deaths (on average) by 12% and injuries by 7% merely by altering the way a group of people stand near an expected suicide bomber.

Higher Education Commission of Pakistan places 1,041 PhDs as Assistant Professors

Higher Education Commission of Pakistan places 1,041 PhDs as Assistant Professors

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has placed 1,041 Pakistani PhDs as assistant professors in public sector and leading private sector universities across the country under its Interim Placement of Fresh PhDs (IPFP) Programme.

The qualified applicants are placed in universities which are ready to offer these professionals a fair chance of absorption on permanent posts through normal selection process within the one-year contract period.

 

These scholars have been initially employed for a period of one year on a salary package of Rs104,000 per month. They may be hired on permanent basis on completion of their tenure through the normal selection process of the host institution.

 

The HEC has also offered these scholars a start-up research grant of Rs0.5 million upon joining the host institutions. So far, the IPFP Programme has processed around 1,416 applications while 233 applicants are at different stages of placement.

 

The placed scholars belong to diversified fields like Water Resource Management, Biotechnology, Food Engineering, Animal Nutrition, Biochemistry, Nano-chemistry and Nano-catalysis, Plasma Physics, Supply Chain Management, Water Resource Engineering, Cell Biology and Civil & Environmental Engineering. Some other domains include Fish Molecular Biology, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, High Energy Physics, Biomedical Textiles, Leadership, Culture & Social Preferences, Geophysics, Mathematics, Computer Sciences, Business Education, Social Sciences, Humanities, Environmental Sciences and Biomedical Textiles.

 

The HEC is not only striving to provide opportunities to the aspiring scholars to pursue higher degrees, both at domestic and international levels, it has also devised the IPFP Programme for facilitating the placement of these scholars at academic and research institutions.

 

This comes as a result of the visionary approach of HEC to ensure proper utilisation of the manpower being trained through huge investments in the scholarship programmes. The HEC's Interim Placement of Fresh PhDs Programme is underlying two-pronged approach. Primarily it provides the lucrative avenues of employment to the fresh PhD professionals and secondly it meets the faculty requirement of public and private sector universities/DAIs for ensuring quality teaching and research, which is one of the core strategic aims of HEC.

 

The IPFP provides to all Pakistani fresh PhD graduates an opportunity to be placed as assistant professor on a tenure track system-based assistant professor position for a maximum of one-year period.

 

Further, each IPFP awardee is also provided with a Rs0.5 million start-up research grant to initiate a feasible research project at his/her host university, immediately upon joining. This ongoing regular programme is open to all fields. The placed scholars have found this programme quite useful and effective and termed it quite helpful in countering brain drain at the national level.

 

Pakistani universities have produced more PhDs in the last 9 years (3,950) since the establishment of HEC than in the first 55 years (3,280). The universities are now able to produce more PhDs in the next 3 years than in the last 9 years. Research output has grown eight-fold since 2002 (from 815 in 2002 to 6,200 in 2011) and 80 per cent of these research publications from Pakistan are coming from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-6-122617-HEC-places-1041-PhDs-as-assistant-professors

Innovative Neurology Method - Pakistan Experts

Pakistani expert develops innovative neurology method

KARACHI: A Pakistani scholar has devised a non-invasive way to sense brain pressure which could significantly change the current paradigm of neurological care of those suffering from brain injury or disease.


Monitoring intracranial pressure (ICP) is the most important thing to assess brain injury, hemorrhage (internal blood flow), tumors and other neurological problems. But current methods to measure this pressure are highly invasive – requiring a neurosurgeon to drill a hole in the skull to place a pressure sensor or catheter inside the brain – and are thus restricted to the very severe cases.


Pakistani scientist, Faisal Kashif has devised a non-invasive technology for ICP monitoring in his PhD thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US. The method is based on processing available clinical signals using a mathematical model of relevant physiology. It provides real time estimates of ICP and cerebrovascular impedance, the latter is an indicator of brain’s ability to maintain its blood supply.


“ICP is a key neurological vital sign and is affected in several brain pathologies – even in concussions and migranes – and this non-invasive method could help in monitoring a vastly larger pool of patients,” said Kashif. He further added that unlike the invasive approaches which require a neurosurgical facility, the non-invasive method can also be applied in emergency-care settings where most trauma patients are first brought. Having access to ICP in a timely manner can guide doctors to provide life-saving interventions.


The initial validation studies show that the new method is equally precise as compared to other painful surgery based procedures. Now Kashif and his colleagues are setting up their prototype device for real time monitoring by the doctors, and to run relevant clinical trials. He is also hopeful that the device could be easily developed in Pakistan as well.


The Helen Carr Peake research prize
In April this year, Dr. Faisal Kashif won MIT’s Helen Carr Peake research prize for his doctoral thesis contributions to the field of bioengineering. He has also presented his findings at two major international conferences, American Heart Association’s Stroke 2010 in US, and ICP 2010 in Germany.


His research work was also declared as “Most Innovative Research” at the Innovation Congress 2009, Boston, US. In 2000, he was awarded two Gold Medals at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Technology (GIKI) and won four years HEC’s overseas scholarships as he was accepted for the doctorate program at MIT, though he only partially used these funds as support became available from MIT’s research, teaching and a medical engineering fellowship, which he was awarded for his proposed research.


A Thesis dedicated to Pakistan
His doctoral thesis entitled “Modeling and estimation for non-invasive monitoring of intracranial pressure and cerebrovascular autoregulation” was a milestone in Kashif’s career. Four years ago, in his Masters thesis, he developed a method for efficient communication through a nonlinear channel, such as the one encountered in satellite and optical fiber links. He dedicated this thesis to his parents and to all the martyrs of independence, which shows his dedication to Pakistan.


“I am proud to be a Pakistani because I know the reasons for its creation. I am very happy to associate my honours to the ideology behind it. I want to do a lot more Insha-Allah, and contribute in all ways I can,” he told to Dawn.com.


http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/21/innovative-neurology-method-developed-by-pakistani-expert.html