Anwar Gilani (PhD, 1985, Uni. of Sydney), a distinguished Pharmacologist, worked at Aga Khan University, Karachi for 30 yrs, Dean, Health Sci at Mekelle Uni, Ethiopia, CEO of Pakistan Council for Sci & Technology and Vice Chancellor, Uni of Haripur, Pak. A natural product pharmacologist, Gilani has discovered himbacine as a prototype of cardio-selective antimuscarinic drug and showed presence of synergistic and side-effects neutralizing combinations in natural products. He carries the title of Distinguished National Professor, Fellow & Council member of Pakistan Acad. of Sciences. His h-index is 86 and his awards include: TWAS Abdus Salam Prize; Ibn-al-Haytham Prize; Aga Hassan Abedi Medal; Boehringer Intl. Research Award; Life-time Academic Achievement Award and three civil awards by the President of Pakistan (Pride of Performance, Sitara-i-Imtiaz & Hilal-i-Imtiaz). He served as advisor to WHO and IFS, and member of editorial boards of several journals of intl. repute including Phytotherapy Research and J Ethnopharmacology.

Qaim was educated at Govt. College/Punjab Univ., Lahore, Pakistan. He earned PhD at Liverpool Univ., DSc at Birmingham Univ. (UK), and Habilitation at Köln Univ. He is advisor in nuclear chemistry, Res. Ctr. Jülich; prof., Köln Univ.; senior teacher at FH Aachen; hon. prof., Govt. College Univ., Lahore, and chief editor, Radiochimica Acta. He is chair, Education Committee of World Council on Isotopes, Korea/USA, and Tutor at the IAEA-supported intern.school on Radionuclides held in Korea. His work covers radiochemistry, nuclear data and radionuclides in medicine. His awards include: Eötvös Medal and hon. Fellowship, Hungarian Physical Society; hon. Citizenship and hon. Doctorate, Debrecen Univ., Hungary; hon. Doctorate, Yorker Intern. Univ.; JARI Award Medal, Pergamon Press; Medal of Honour, Egyptian Atomic Energy; Medal of Honour, Rajshahi Univ.,Bangladesh; Medal of Honour, Government College University Lahore, Pakistan; Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan; Hevesy Medal of Radiochemistry; and Becquerel Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, London. He was Research Professor of TWAS for Bangladesh. He is foreign fellow, Pakistan Acad. of Sciences and fellow, Islamic World Acad. of Sciences.