Dr. Mohammad Shameem, Assistant Professor, Department of Tuberculosis and Chest Disease J.N. Medical College, AMU Aligarh has received prestigious Asia Pacific Society of Respirology Fellowship of Japan to get advance training in Interventional Pulmonology at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Sabah, Malaysia.
The fellowship is awarded to young scientists from Asia Pacific Region who are actively involved in research in Pulmonology. He is the only scientist from Asia who received this fellowship. He has been given Young Scientist Award by the UP Government for his extraordinary work on TB and respiratory diseases.
Dr. Shameem had also received major research project from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India, to develop herbal medicine for bronchial asthma.
Dr. Shameem has acknowledged his teachers and colleague Prof. R. Bhargava and Prof. Zuber Ahmad for their help and support in his research.