Dr. Sikander Azam has the privilege to be among a few scientific researchers chosen by IFS from all around the world to be awarded with the grant in the year 2014. As head of the Computational Biology Lab, it represents a great achievement on part of Dr. Syed Sikander Azam and in turn Quaid-i-Azam University as it contributes to international recognition of efforts made in the field of Bioinformatics by this research group based at the National Center for Bioinformatics. We are hopeful that requisition of this grant will pave way for future, collaborative research endeavors bringing computational research at the fore front