Shahzad Irfan
Shahzad Irfan is an assistant professor and researcher in the Department of Physiology, Govt. College University Faisalabad, Pakistan. He obtained his Ph.D. in Endocrinology and Physiology of Reproduction in 2014 as a DAAD fellow from the University of Münster, Germany, after which he moved to COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan as an assistant professor in the Department of Biosciences. Since joining the Department of Physiology in 2018, Dr. Irfan has been actively involved in the pathobiology of diabetes mellitus with functional studies on in vitro models of pancreatic beta cells and in vivo models of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. His focus has been on the specific impact of different known herbal extracts and phytochemicals on the regenerative capacity of pancreatic beta cells, insulin synthesis, and secretion, and transcriptional modulation of hepatic glycolytic, lipolytic, gluconeogenic, and lipogenic genes through different transcription factors in type 1 and type 2 rodent and primate models.