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Dow Institute of Medical Technology

Medical Technology is a vital part of the entire Health Care System. This professional field comprises the challenges and rewards of medicine and surgery and deals with the technical aspects of the same. Our program provides undergraduate and postgraduate training programs in these fields for students pursuing their careers in Allied Health Sciences. Medical technologists are vital members of the Health Care System. They are an eminent professional resource of the health care team, who play an active role in medical institutions, hospitals, physicians' offices, diagnostic centers, and other health care facilities in public and private sectors.

Faculty Profile

  • Sabahat Aziz
  • Designation
  • Senior Lecturer
  • Department
  • Clinical Laboratory Sciences
  • Qualification

  • BS (Medical Technology), MPhil (Pathology), PhD Scholar (Microbiology)

  • Email
  • sabahat.aziz@duhs.edu.pk
  • Office Location
  • Dow Institute of Medical Technology, Nursing Building ,3rd Floor ,KDA Scheme-33, Gulzar-e-Hijri Near SUPARCO off Main University Road Karachi

Research Interest

My research interest is to explore novel biochemical, cellular and molecular therapeutic targets involved in pathogenesis of various diseases or infections with regulation of inflammatory and/or immune responses

Research Publications

Tooba Jabri, Talat Roome,, Anam Razzak, Sabahat Aziz, Muhammad Imran,  Bushra Sikandar, Elhissi A, and Muhammad Raza Shah. Fabrication of hesperidin hybrid lecithin-folic acid silver nanoparticles and its evaluation as anti-arthritis formulation in autoimmune arthritic rat model. Journal of Molecular Structure. 2023 Mar 15; 1276:134722.

Talat Roome, Sabahat Aziz, Anam Razzak, Zara Aslam, Lubna, Khawar Saeed Jamali, Bushra Sikandar, Tehseen Fatima, Lubna Abidi, Muhammad Imran, Shaheen Faizi, Muhammad Raza Shah. Opuntioside, opuntiol and its metallic nanoparticles attenuate adjuvant-induced arthritis: novel suppressors of toll-like receptors-2 and-4. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 2019 Apr 1; 112:108624.

Komal Rao, Talat Roome, Sabahat Aziz, Anam Razzak, Ghulam Abbas, Muhammad Imran, Tooba Jabri, Jasra Gul, Munawar Hussain, Bushra Sikandar, Shaheen Sharafat and Muhammad Raza Shah. Bergenin loaded gum xanthan stabilized silver nanoparticles suppress synovial inflammation through modulation of the immune response and oxidative stress in adjuvant induced arthritic rats. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 2018;6 (27):4486-501.

Komal Rao, Sabahat Aziz, Talat Roome, Anam Razzak, Bushra Sikandar, Khawar Saeed Jamali, Muhammad Imran, Tooba Jabri & Muhammad Raza Shah. Gum acacia stabilized silver nanoparticles based nano-cargo for enhanced anti-arthritic potentials of hesperidin in adjuvant induced arthritic rats. Artificial cells, nanomedicine, and biotechnology. 2018 Oct 31;46 (sup1):597-607.

Perbhat Ali, Sabahat Aziz, Anam Razzak, Talat Roome, Saeed Khan, Faheema Siddiqui, Ahsana Dar, Shaheen Faizi, Lubna Abidi. Inhibitory effect of oputiol/opuntioside-I against the expression of cytokine and chemokine in carrageenan and zymosan induced mouse inflammatory model. Pathology. 2014 Jan 1; 46:S74-5.

Talat Roome, Maha Qasim, Sabahat Aziz, Ahsana Dar Farooq, Anam Razzak, Syed Farooq Ali, . Assessment of acute, sub-acute, chronic and genotoxicity of polyherbal formulation DCD-684 in mice. Pak. J. Pharm. Sci., Vol.34, No.4 (Suppl), July 2021, pp.1485-1498

Talat Roome, Maha Qasim, Ahsana Dar Farooq, Qibtiya Ilyas, Sabahat Aziz, Syed Farooq Ali. Antispasmodic activity and mechanism of action of polyherbal formulation DCD-684 on rabbit jejunum Pak. J. Pharm. Sci., Vol. 34, No.2 (Suppl), March 2021, pp.711-722.

Sabahat Aziz, Talat Roome, Perbhat Ali and Anam Razzak Inhibitory Effect of Aegiceras corniculatum against Lung Injury in Carrageenan-induced Mouse Pleurisy Model. Humdard Medicus 2016, Vol 59 (1).

Talat Roome, Anam Razzak, Perbhat Ali, Sabahat Aziz, Ahsana Dar, Sabira Naqvi, Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary (2014) Effect of Aegiceras corniculatum Extracts Against Chronic Granulomatous Inflammation and Arthritis in Animal Models JDUHS 2014, Vol. 8 (3):98-103

Others

Participation Outside Country:

Fully funded scholarship and Travel Bursary Award for International Training Course on Environmental toxicology, Thailand

Fully funded scholarship and Travel Bursary Award for poster presentation “Association of TLR-2 and Dectin-1 polymorphism with viral/fungal infections in liver transplant patients in Pakistan"; at XXXII Congress of the International Academy of Pathology (IAP) Amman, Jordan

Honors & Achievements    Got First prize for poster presentation in PAP conference