Prof Muhammad Akhtar, FRS

Career: res scientist Res Inst for Med and Chemistry Cambridge USA 1959-63; Univ of Southampton: lectr 1963-, sr lectr then reader, prof of biochemistry 1973-98, head Dept of Biochemistry 1978-93, chm Sch of Biochemical and Physiological Sciences 1983-87, chm Inst of Biomolecular Sciences 1989-91, emeritus prof 1998-; distinguished nat prof and DG Sch of Biological Sciences Univ of the Punjab Lahore Pakistan 2002-; dir SERC Centre for Molecular Recognition 1990-94; author of articles in learned jls; founding fell Third World Acad of Sci 1984 (vice-pres 1998-2003, treas 1993-98, lectr 1996); memb: Royal Soc of Chemistry, American Chem Soc, Biochemical Soc; award of Sitara-I-Imtiaz by Govt of Pakistan 1981, Flintoff medal 1993; Hon DSc Univ of Karachi 2000; FRS (memb Cncl 1983-85)