Dr. Muhammad Ilyas; Assistant Professor in Biochemistry has presented his research paper at the International Conference on Latest Trends in Biotechnology and Biodiversity, August 24-26, 2015, Dubai, UAE. He is using some innovative computational approaches to detect ethnic and even tribal-specific mutations that may be the key to rare and common diseases with higher prevalence in the population under study.

He was sponsored and funded by The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) which is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity. AAAS is the publisher of the well-known scientific journal Science, which has a weekly circulation of 138,549.