Prof Iqbal Ch. delivers lecture at Trieste Next Science Festival in Italy.

KARACHI -- Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, the Coordinator General COMSTECH, and UNESCO Chair on Medicinal and BioOrganic Natural Product Chemistry, has recently attended the Trieste Next Science Festival in Trieste, Italy, says a Press release. The ICCBS Spokesman said on Monday that Prof. Iqbal Choudhary was the only scientist from Asia, invited by the forum as a part of the high-level panel. Trieste Next is the biggest science forum attended by members of the US National Academy of Sciences and other scientific academies of the world. Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Iqbal Choudhary talked about neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affecting the lives of 1.7 billion people globally and their treatment has received very little political, economic, scientific, and pharmaceutical attention. He said NTDs were a group of tropical infections, commonly known as poor man diseases.

These tropical infections are common in low-income populations of more than 97 countries including Pakistan, he added. Prof. Choudhary also presented the role of his research group working on Leishmaniasis, prevailing NTD in Sindh and the upper northern parts of Pakistan. Prof. Choudhary urged global scientific communities to focus on finding the...