Dr. Gulab Sher - Head, Genomics Core Facility
Dr. Gulab Sher is the Head of the Genomics Core facility. He is a molecular geneticist interested in genetic disease related to human health. Dr. Gulab completed his PhD from Quaid-i-Azam University/University of Pittsburgh in 2015. He has worked on syndromes related to connective tissues and has characterized skeletal and cutis laxa syndromes at the clinical and molecular level, by a variety of methods including homozygosity mapping, next generation sequencing, sanger sequencing, whole genome SNP genotyping, PCR, RT-PCR, electron microscopy, immunoblotting, immunostaining and restriction fragment length polymorphism.
After completing his PhD, Dr. Gulab worked as an Assistant Professor at Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology, Pakistan from 2014-2017. He subsequently joined the Genomics Core Facility at the Translational Research Institute as a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist and is now leading the facility.
Dr. Gulab has published in various internationally recognized scientific journals and has worked as a Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on numerous projects involving translational genomics, collaborating with multiple research groups.
Select Publications:
Sher et al., A novel CHSY1 gene mutation underlies Temtamy preaxial brachydactyly syndrome in a Pakistani family. Eur J Med Genet. 2014 Jan;57(1):21-4. PMID: 24269551
Sher et al., Muhammad Naeem. Molecular Diagnosis of Rare Autosomal Recessive Escobar Syndrome in a Consanguineous Pakistani Family. Genet Test Mol Biomarkers. 2018 Dec;22(12):714-718. PMID: 30461311
Sher et al., Prevalence and Type Distribution of High-Risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV) in Breast Cancer: A Qatar Based Study. Cancers (Basel). 2020 Jun 10;12(6):1528. PMID: 32532107
Sher et al., Epigenetic and breast cancer therapy: Promising diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Semin Cancer Biol. 2020 Aug 25;S1044-579X(20)30181-4. PMID: 32858230
Khan S, Irfan M, Sher G et al., UGT1A1 gene mutations in Pakistani children suffering from inherited non-hemolytic unconjugated hyperbilirubinemias. Ann Hum Genet. 2013 Aug 29. PMID: 23992562
