Muhammad Akhtar

Muhammad Akhtar FRS (; born 23 February 1933) is a British-Pakistani biochemist, and former Director General of the School of Biological Sciences, at the University of the Punjab.

Biography He spent the years 1959 to 1963 doing science research in Cambridge, Massachusetts before moving to the University of Southampton, UK as a lecturer, then reader and then Professor of Biochemistry (1973-1978). From 1978 until 1991 he was head of the Department of Biochemistry. He was chairman of the School of Biochemical and Physiological Sciences from 1983 to 1987 and chairman of the Institute of Biomolecular Sciences from 1989 to 1991. He is also an honorary fellow at the University College London.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1980 under the recommendation of a notable Biochemist George Joseph Popják (FRS). He mentions this proposal in a memoir he authored for the FRS:

Prof. Akhtar and his wife Monika Akhtar have authored Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society including Adolf Butenandt, George Popják, and Salimuzzaman Siddiqui.