Research Interests

• Epidemiology of public health concerned pathogens
  
• Drug discovery and development from plants
• Ethnobotany
• Bioeconomy
  
  

Curriculum Vitae

2022, March/April/May/June

Guest Scientist, Agrarian Transformations and Social-Ecological Complexities: Local Bioeconomy Scenarios in Central and South Asia (TRANSECT), Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management, University for Sustainable Development, Eberswalde (Germany)

Project: Exploring the potential of medicinal plants-based bioeconomy to sustain livelihood in South Punjub, Pakistan

2021 – To date

Professor, Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Multan (Pakistan)

Coordinator/ Dean – Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (from 2021 to date)

Chairman – Department of Pathobiology (from 2021 to date)

2017 – 2021

Associate Professor (Parasitology), Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Multan (Pakistan)

Chairman – Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (from 2017 to 2021)

2014 – 2016

Faculty, Health Sciences (Veterinary Medicine), Al Ain Men’s College, Higher Colleges of Technology, Al Ain (United Arab Emirates)

2014 – 2014

Postdoctoral Fellow, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida (Mexico)

2010 – 2013

Doctoral fellow, University of Kassel, Germany

Project: Prevalence of intestinal parasites in small ruminants and their sensitivity to treatments with ethnobotanical remedies in Cholistan, Pakistan

Publications

Books and Book Chapter

Ul-Rahman A., J.A. Khan, C. Raab, R.Z. Abbas, M.A. Raza, 2022. Remote Sensing and GIS integration in Veterinary, Agricultural and Health Sciences. Unique Scientific Publishers. ISBN: 978-969-2201-03-2.

Raza, M.A., Ul-Rahman A., R.Z. Abbas, 2021. Sustainable Bioeconomy in Livestock and Crop Production. Unique Scientific Publishers. ISBN: 978-969-2201-02-5.

Sarfraz, M., H. Ullah, G. Nabi, M.A. Raza, R. Iqbal, S. Ullah, 2021. Curcuma longa as dietary supplement and Diabetes Mellitus: Evidence from Experimental Studies. In: Frontiers in clinical drug research-diabetes and obesity. Bentham Science Publisher Volume 6: 145-169. ISBN: 978-981-14-7919-9.

Ul-Rahman A., M.A.B. Shabbir, M.A. Raza, 2021. Newcastle disease in mammalian species: the propensity of cross-species transmission towards public health perspective. In: Veterinary pathobiology and public health, Eds, Abbas, R.Z., Khan, A. Unique Scientific Publishers. ISBN: 978-969-2201-00-1.

Khan, Z., A. Razzaq, A. Muneer, M. Siddique, U. Iqbal, M.A. Raza and T. Sattar. 2021. CRISPR for Rewriting Genetic Code. In: The CRISPR/Cas tool kit for genome editing. Springer Nature, Singapore. ISBN 89040185-489306-1.

Raza, M.A., S. Murtaza, H.A. Bachaya, 2012. Helminthiasis. Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP) Germany. ISBN 978-3-659-21184-3.

Raza, M.A., G. Fatima, Q.A. Rasool, 2012. Ethnobotany. Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP) Germany. ISBN 978-3-659-19074-2.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (most significant)

Ul-Rahman A, H.M. Ishaq, M.A. Raza, M.Z. Shabbir, 2021. Zoonotic potential of Newcastle disease virus: old and novel perspectives related to public health. Reviews in Medical Virology, http://doi.org/10.1002/rmv.2246

Ishaq H.M., I.S. Mohammad, K.S. Muhammad, H. Li, R.Z. Abbas, Z.D Sindhu, S. Ullah, Y. Fan, A. Sadiq, M.A. Raza, R. Hussain, H.M. Arshad, M.U. Waqas, A.U. Rahman, R. Yasin, A. Rehman, R.W. Akhtar, and J. Xu, 2021. Gut microbial dysbiosis and its association with esophageal cancer. Journal of Applied Biomedicine. doi:10.32725/jab.2021.005

Hussain K., R.Z. Abbas, A. Abbas, M.A. Raza, M.S. Mahmood, M.I., M.K. Khan and M. Rafay, 2021. Therapeutic potential of medicinal plants against Leishmaniasis: a public health concern. Bol Latinoam Caribe Plant Med Aromat, https://doi.org/10.37360/blacpma.21.20.2.10.

Ul-Rahman A., M.A.B. Shabbir, M.W. Aziz, S. Yaqub, A. Mehmood, M.A. Raza, and M.Z. Shabbir, 2020. A comparative phylogenomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 strains reported from non-human mammalian species and environmental samples. Molecular Biology Reports, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-020-05879-5

Ul-Rahman A., K. Dhama, Q. Ali, M.A. Raza, U. Chaudhry, and M.Z. Shabbir, 2020. Foot and mouth disease in a wide range of wild hosts: a potential constraint in disease control efforts worldwide particularly in disease-endemic settings. Acta Tropica, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105567

Abbas, A., R.Z. Abbas, M.K. Khan, M.A. Raza, M.S. Mahmood, M.K. Saleemi, T. Hussain, J.A. Khan, and Z.D. Sindhu, 2019. Anticoccidial Effects of Trachyspermum ammi (Ajwain) in broiler chickens. Pakistan Veterinary Journal, 39: 301-304.

Ishaq, H.M., I.S. Mohammad, M. Shahzad, C. Ma, Z. Naseem, M.A. Raza, M. Naveed, X. Wu, H. Guo, P. Shi, and J. Xu, 2018. Molecular Alteration Analysis of human gut microbial composition in Graves' disease Patients. International Journal of Biological Sciences 14: 1558-1570.

Raza, M.A., M. Younas and E. Schlecht, 2016. In vitro efficacy of selected medicinal plants from Cholistan desert, Pakistan, against gastrointestinal helminths of sheep and goats. Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 117: 211-224.

Raza, M.A., M. Younas and E. Schlecht, 2014. Prevalence of gastrointestinal helminths in pastoral sheep and goat flocks in the Cholistan desert of Pakistan. Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences, 24: 127-134.

Raza, M.A., M. Younas, A. Buerkert and E. Schlecht, 2014. Ethno-botanical remedies used by pastoralists for the treatment of livestock diseases in Cholistan desert, Pakistan. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 151: 333-342.