The Forman Christian College (FCC) will hold a one-day seminar on the Biology of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) on campus at the Armacost Science Building on Saturday.
The seminar has been organised by the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and the Lahore Biotech cluster and is sponsored by Getz Pharma and InVitro Vogue – a biotech company. The themes of the seminar would be Molecular Biology of HCV, Epidemiology, Surveillance and Therapeutic Issues. The first session of the seminar will be chaired by University of Health Science, (UHS) Lahore Vice Chancellor, Dr Malik Hussain Mubashir, and the second session by Prime Minister’s Programme for Hepatitis Prevention and Control National Programme Manager Dr Aftab Mohsin.
The panel discussion in the afternoon will be moderated by Pakistan Society of Gastroenterologists President, Dr Arif M Siddiqui. The seminar hopes to bring together clinicians and scientists to help build a better understanding of the epidemiology and pathology of the infection in Pakistan’s population.