Hashaam Akhtar

Employment

• Chemonics International National Infectious Disease Specialist
  2021 - 2022
• Yusra Medical and Dental College Associate Professor
  2018 - Present
• Yusra Medical and Dental College Assistant Professor
  2015 - 2018

Education

• Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg Postdoctorate
  2018 - 2019

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (20)

• Hepatitis E Virus: Epidemiology, Clinical Aspects, and Its Significance as a Major Pregnancy Risk
  Livers 2023 DOI: 10.3390/livers3030035
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• Impact of IL-12B Genetic Variants on Antiviral Treatment Response among Hepatitis B Patients in Pakistan
  Livers 2023 DOI: 10.3390/livers3030034
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• Expression Profiles of Hepatic Immune Response Genes in HEV Infection
  Pathogens 2023 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens12030392
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• Recent Developments in Oral Delivery of Vaccines Using Nanocarriers
  Vaccines 2023 DOI: 10.3390/vaccines11020490
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• Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among Patients With COVID-19 Hospitalized in Pakistan: Retrospective Observational Study
  JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2021 DOI: 10.2196/32203
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• Risk Factors of COVID-19 Critical Outcomes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Multicountry Retrospective Study (Preprint)
  2021 DOI: 10.2196/preprints.32831
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• Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among Patients With COVID-19 Hospitalized in Pakistan: Retrospective Observational Study (Preprint)
  2021 DOI: 10.2196/preprints.32203
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• An Overview of the Treatment Options Used for the Management of COVID-19 in Pakistan: Retrospective Observational Study
  JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2021 DOI: 10.2196/28594
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• Pakistan’s Response to COVID-19: Overcoming National and International Hypes to Fight the Pandemic
  JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2021 DOI: 10.2196/28517
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• Notes from the Field: The Combined Effects of Tocilizumab and Remdesivir in a Patient with Severe COVID-19 and Cytokine Release Syndrome (Preprint)
  2021 DOI: 10.2196/preprints.27609
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• Prevalence of Nomophobia in students due to COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan (Preprint)
  2021 DOI: 10.2196/preprints.27612
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• Protein Kinase Inhibitory Potential and Anti-Fungal Activities of Metal Complexes of Anti-Viral Drug Ribavirin
  RADS Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 2019
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• PCR-Based Molecular Diagnosis of Hepatitis Virus (HBV and HDV) in HCV Infected Patients and Their Biochemical Study.
  Journal of pathogens 2016 DOI: 10.1155/2016/3219793
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• Unraveling the molecular mechanism governing the tissue specific expression of IFNλR1.
  Pakistan journal of pharmaceutical sciences 2016
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• Transcriptome analysis reveals a classical interferon signature induced by IFNλ4 in human primary cells
  Genes & Immunity 2015 DOI: 10.1038/gene.2015.23
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• Expression of interferon-lambda receptor (IFN-λR1) in mononuclear phagocyte cells and effects of levels of newly discovered type III interferon lambda 4 (in-vitro study)
  Journal of Clinical Virology 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.06.029
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• Identification of essential regulatory elements responsible for the explicit expression of IL-28Rα and their effect on critical SNPs using in-Silico methods.
  Pakistan journal of pharmaceutical sciences 2015
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• Over expression of a synthetic gene encoding interferon lambda using relative synonymous codon usage bias in Escherichia coli.
  Pakistan journal of pharmaceutical sciences 2013
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• Interferon lambda 4 signals via the IFNλ receptor to regulate antiviral activity against HCV and coronaviruses.
  The EMBO journal 2013 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2013.232
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• Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus infection among transgender men in Rawalpindi (Pakistan).
  Virology journal 2012 DOI: 10.1186/1743-422x-9-229
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