12 Facts About Niyaz Ahmed

Niyaz Ahmed is an Indian molecular epidemiologist, professor of microbial sciences, genomicist, and a veterinarian by training, based in Hyderabad.

Niyaz Ahmed served as senior director at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka.

Niyaz Ahmed was affiliated with the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as a Visiting Professor of Molecular Biosciences at the Institute of Biological Sciences and was an adjunct professor of the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, India.

Niyaz Ahmed is currently working as professor at the School of Life Sciences at the University of Hyderabad.

Niyaz Ahmed served as senior director from November 2016 to March 2020 at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, as a member of the Senior Leadership Team of the Centre.

Niyaz Ahmed has interest in comparative genomics of bacterial pathogens obtained from single patients at different occasions and this approach nurtures the concept of 'chronological evolution and replicative genomics' as tools to study host-microbe interaction over time.

Niyaz Ahmed's group has developed a widely used multilocus sequence typing scheme for species level identification of pathogenic Leptospira with a potential to replace the highly ambiguous serotyping method that currently is used for Leptospiral strain identification.

Niyaz Ahmed taught courses in Molecular and Cell Biology, Intellectual Property Rights and Biosafety, Research and Publication Ethics and Research Methodology.

Niyaz Ahmed served as Section Editor of PLoS ONE wherein he provided editorial oversight to the "PLoS ONE Prokaryotic Genome Collection".

Niyaz Ahmed served as a member of the PLoS International Advisory Group and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Gut Pathogens journal, published by BioMed Central Ltd.

Niyaz Ahmed was elected as fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of India and was admitted as fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in January 2015 and a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2018.

Niyaz Ahmed is serving as a member of the editorial boards of the following scientific journals:.