ISLAMABAD: A female research student of Food & Biotechnology Research Centre (FBRC), PCSIR Laboratories Complex, Lahore had been honored with Queen’s Young Leaders Award, 2016.
It was a matter of prestige and honor for Paksitan Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) that its research student Zainab Bibi was awarded this award, said a senior official of PCSIR while Talking to APP.
This honor was awarded by the Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony held at Buckingham Palace, United Kingdom. Zainab Bibi carried out research work at FBRC, PCSIR laboratories Complex, Lahore on “Genomic characterization of different members of Brassicaseae family for their potential of making biofuels”.
Chairman PCSIR, Dr. Shahzad Alam had congratulated the research student and hoped that PCSIR’s technologists/ scientists & engineers would continue their efforts to achieve the success in various fields of R&D.
Each year from 2014 to 2018, 60 inspirational young people are selected to receive an Award and become “Queen’s Young Leaders”.
The aspiration is for at least one young person from every Commonwealth country to receive a Queen’s Young Leaders Award for achievement in transforming their own lives and that of others.
