Kloczkowski Lab

Andrzej Kloczkowski, PhD
Principal Investigator

Andrzej Kloczkowski, PhD, is a principal investigator in the Center with his research interests focusing on various aspects of computational molecular biology and structural bioinformatics. Areas of interest include system biology at multiple levels, lattice models of proteins, prediction of protein structures, protein dynamics, prediction of protein functions, protein packing and statistical potentials, prediction of binding sites, and prediction of phosphorylation sites.

Mubasher Hassan, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Dr. Hassan was born and raised in Pakistan and completed his PhD from Kongju National University, South Korea (2015-2019). After finishing his PhD, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) at The University of Lahore, Pakistan, where he taught courses related to Bioinformatics and supervised student at undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr Hassan is working as Postdoctoral Research Scientist since December 20, 2021, having expertise in Computer Aided Drug Designing (CADD) at The Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH). Dr. Hassan won the most prestigious “President Postdoctoral Scholarship Program (PPSP)” award from The Ohio State University (OSU) in 2022 and “Outstanding Research Award for 2022” from Research Awards Committee Administrator, NCH, Columbus OH. USA. He has published around 160 high-quality research articles in reputable journals.

Saba Shahzadi
Research Assistant

Saba Shahzadi joined IGM as a Research Assistant in the Kloczkowski Lab. Saba grew up in Lahore, Pakistan and graduated from the Virtual University with a Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics. During her time at Virtual University, she worked in a research lab studying the Computer Aided Drug Designing approaches to explore some novel chemical compounds against Alzheimer’s disease. Previously, she also worked as research assistant in the Institute of Molecular Science and Bioinformatics (IMSB) Lahore, Pakistan, and learnt some basic techniques such as Molecular Docking, Protein Modelling, and Chemoinformatic. She has published different research articles in reputed journals.