Professional and Academic Career
Sohail Qureshi has been affiliated with various institutions throughout his life. His professional career took a jump start at the Institute of Genetics at University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Prof. Howard T. Jacob’s laboratory from 1990-1993. His research in the laboratory included working on protein-DNA interactions in sea urchin mitochondria. Here he identified several sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins capable of regulating sea urchin mitochondrial DNA replication and transcription. From July 1993 to April 1994 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. D. Bentley’s laboratory at Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London. In April 1994, he joined CRC Institute at Cambridge University, U.K. as a Senior Research Fellow and carried out his research in Prof. Steve Jackson’s laboratory working on the transcriptional apparatus in Sulfolobus shibatae.
Following this, Qureshi spent close to four years at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Neurology. Here he sought extramural funding for research, supervised undergraduate and graduate students and provided a core molecular biology and biochemistry facility for the Neuroscience Training Program. While working on rat hippocampus, Sohail Qureshi identified over fifty novel genes and studied the function(s) of two novel transcription factors in great detail. This work resulted in a patent which was instrumental in getting NeuroGenomeX (a company dedicated to identifying and validating genes/proteins involved in neuronal plasticity) off the ground in early 1999. While in Madison, Wisconsin, he was recruited by Invitrogen Corporation as a Senior R&D Scientist from 2001-2003.
In 2004, Sohail Qureshi joined Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan where he was the Jafferali Lalji Professor till 2010 at the Department of Biological and Biomedical Science. He developed his own research group at the University and taught advanced courses to both medical and postgraduate students. From 2006-2007, he was also a visiting professor at the Centre for Innovations in Medicine, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University where he was involved in the area of genetic vaccines. Sohail Qureshi is currently a visiting professor at Portland State University, Oregon. He teaches there at both undergraduate and graduate level.
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