Dr. Waqar Khalid Saeed is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, PAF-IAST. Dr. Waqar did his PhD from Hanyang University, South Korea in 2018. Before joining PAF-IAST, he has worked as a Postdoc Researcher at Hanyang University, South Korea. His research interests are mainly non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, cell death, necroptosis, HBV and HCV and, drug discovery. 

1. Waqar Khalid Saeed, Dae Won Jun, Kiseok Jang, Dong Hee Koh. Necroptosis signaling in liver diseases: An update. Pharmacological Research. 2019 Aug 30. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2019.104439. 
2. Waqar Khalid Saeed, Dae Won Jun, Kiseok Jang, Ju Hee Oh, Yeon Ji Chae et al. Inhibition of mixed lineage kinase domain like pseudokinase decreases fat de novo synthesis and chemokine ligand expression in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2019 May 27. doi: 10.1111/jgh.14740. [Epub ahead of print] 
3. Waqar Khalid Saeed, Dae Won Jun. Viewpoint: necroptosis influences the type of liver cancer via changes of hepatic microenvironment. HepatoBiliary Surg Nutr 2019. 
4. Waqar Khalid Saeed, Dae Won Jun, Kiseok Jang, Ju Hee Oh, Yeon Ji Chae et. al. Mismatched effects of receptor interacting protein 3 on hepatic steatosis and inflammation in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. World J Gastroenterol 2018;24: 5477-5490 
5. Yeon Ji Chae, Dae Won Jun, Waqar Khalid Saeed, Hyeon Tae Kang, Ju Hee Oh et al. Feasibility and Stability of Liver Biopsy before Treatment for Preclinical Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Studies. J Korean Med Sci 2019; 34: doi: 10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e14. eCollection 2019 Jan 14 

• From: 2020–Present
• Designation: Assistant Professor
• Institute Name: Pak-Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Haripur. 

• From: March 2018 – July 2018 
• Designation: Postdoc Research Fellow
• Institute Name: Hanyang University, South Korea.

• From: 2016–2018
• Designation: Visiting International Fellowship (Hepatology)
• Institute Name: Department of Gastroenterology, Hanyang University School of Medicine,Seoul, South Korea. 

• From: February 2011–November 2011
• Designation: Medical Officer 
• Institute Name: Islamic Relief International, Pakistan.

• Year: 2018
• Award Title: Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award 2018 
• Awarding Institute Name: Hanyang University, South Korea.

• Year: 2016
• Award Title: Singapore Preceptorship Program Award 2016
• Awarding Institute Name: Singapore Hepatology Conference (SHC)

• Year: 2014–2017 
• Award Title: KASL Travel Awards (2014–2017)
• Awarding Institute Name: The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver