Hasnain obtained his PhD (1977) at the Univ. of Manchester. In 2008, he became the first occupant of the Max Perutz Chair of Molecular Biophysics at the University of Liverpool. Since 2011, he has been appointed as the Intl. Lead for the Fac. of Health and Life Sciences. Prior to this, he was head, Molecular Biophysics Group, Daresbury Synchrotron Lab., UK, for 20 years. He was found. ed. of the Jnl. of Synchrotron Radiation. Prev. pos. incl.: Lecturer in applied physics, Univ. of Karachi; rsrch. fell., Physics Dept., Univ. of Manchester; DESY rsrch. fell., HasyLab; rsrch. fell., chemistry and medical biophysics dept., Manchester Univ. He is a fell. of the UK's Inst. of Physics and Royal Society of Chemistry. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the International Union of Crystallography and is the founding editor-in-chief of IUCrJ launched in 2014.

Anwar Gilani (PhD, 1985, Uni. of Sydney), a distinguished Pharmacologist, worked at Aga Khan University, Karachi for 30 yrs, Dean, Health Sci at Mekelle Uni, Ethiopia, CEO of Pakistan Council for Sci & Technology and Vice Chancellor, Uni of Haripur, Pak. A natural product pharmacologist, Gilani has discovered himbacine as a prototype of cardio-selective antimuscarinic drug and showed presence of synergistic and side-effects neutralizing combinations in natural products. He carries the title of Distinguished National Professor, Fellow & Council member of Pakistan Acad. of Sciences. His h-index is 86 and his awards include: TWAS Abdus Salam Prize; Ibn-al-Haytham Prize; Aga Hassan Abedi Medal; Boehringer Intl. Research Award; Life-time Academic Achievement Award and three civil awards by the President of Pakistan (Pride of Performance, Sitara-i-Imtiaz & Hilal-i-Imtiaz). He served as advisor to WHO and IFS, and member of editorial boards of several journals of intl. repute including Phytotherapy Research and J Ethnopharmacology.