Dr. G. N. Qazi, joined Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University) as Vice Chancellor on October 13, 2008. He has obtained his Masters and Ph D degrees respectively in Biochemistry and a Microbiology from M. S. University (Baroda) and Post Doctoral training from the University of Dortmund (Germany). He has in his credit more than 40 years of research experience in the areas of Biochemistry, Microbial Biotechnology, Bio-prospecting of Natural Products and clinical validation studies for Indian classical drugs. He has been for more than 30 years in a leadership position and groomed scores of scientists and technocrats in the area of his core-competence. He has more than 250 international publications and about 70 international patents to his credit. He guided 35 scholars leading to Ph D degrees of 12 Universities in India and Germany where he did his Post Doctoral research. He led several international collaborations during his career with CSIR and finally steered one of the five Regional Research Laboratories as a senior Director for over eight years since May 2000.

Dr. Qazi is presently the Chairman of Drugs and Pharmaceutical Research programme of the Govt. of India, the Chairman Unani Pharmacopeia committee and the member Pharmacopeia commission for AYSH drugs.

As the Vice chancellor at the Jamia Hamdard his immediate focus has been the total quality improvement. As a result the University has been re-accredited by NAAC and placed in category “A” and placed in Category “A deemed Universities by the Prof. Tondon Committee constituted by MHRD. He is right now establishing a medical school in Jamia Hamdard which will be the first Public-Private modern medical college in Delhi. He also has plans to establish one more campus of the Jamia in Mewat region in Haryana, the focused activity of which would be polytechnical education and skills development for the Muslims youth of that region.