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Muhammad Khalid Mansoor is a Professor in Microbiology at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, where he has worked since 2020. He is founding Dean of Faculty of Veterinary & Animal Sciences and also Chairperson, Department of Microbiology, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur. He holds a DVM (2000), M.Sc. (Hons) in Veterinary Microbiology (2002) and PhD (2010) from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan on development of an egg-adapted vaccine against hydropericardium syndrome in chicken.

Dr. Mansoor joined Institute of Microbiology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad as Lecturer in 2001 and got promoted as Assistant Professor in 2013. Later, he joined Animal Health Research Center as virologist and animal disease expert under the Directorate General of Agriculture and Livestock Research, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Sultanate of Oman in 2014. Prior to joining IUB, Dr. Mansoor served as Professor & Dean, Faculty of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (CUVAS), Bahawalpur. Prof. Mansoor has been a lead investigator and coordinator of several research projects funded by national and international funding agencies. He has published more than fifty research articles in well reputed national and international peer reviewed journals and he is reviewer of different peer reviewed journals. He is the pioneer for initiation of four years degree program B.S. (Hons.) Applied Microbiology at CUVAS. Dr. Mansoor has produced number of postgraduate students under his supervision. Dr. Mansoor has established Central Diagnostic laboratory for diagnosis of animal diseases at IUB. His research activities focus on host virus interaction, livestock and poultry vaccines, emerging infectious and zoonotic diseases