SAUDIA ARABIA: Dr Zohaib Khurshid, Lecturer and Course Coordinator, Department of Biomaterials and Prosthodontics, King Faisal University, Saudia Arabia, has recently been awarded Member of the Faculty of Dental Surgery (MFDS) from Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (RCPS), Glasgow.
Dr Khurshid received his Bachelor's degree in dentistry from Fatima Jinnah Dental College (FJDC), Pakistan. After graduation, he started working as a lecturer at FJDC. He published international research papers and book chapters and proceeded to Master by Research (MRes) in Biomaterials from the University of Birmingham (UoB), UK. He became the first Pakistani dental researcher to start working on human salivary proteomics, gingival crevicular proteomics, and platelet-rich proteins (PRPs) proteomics.
He has 150 peer-reviewed publications since 2013 in dental biomaterials, tissue engineering and clinical dentistry. Moreover, he recently ranked #7 for his citations at King Faisal University, according to AD Scientific Index 2021.
