Designation: Assistant Professor Hematology, IPDM KMU
Qualification: MBBS, MPhil Hematology (Gold medalist), PhD (York, UK)
Email: [email protected]
Qualification and experience:
Dr Gulab Fatima Rani graduated from Gomal Medical College, Dera Ismail Khan in 2012
followed by one year house job at Hayatabad Medical complex, Peshawar. She completed her
MPhil hematology with gold medal from Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Khyber Medical
University in 2017. She has worked in pathology, diagnostic haematology and clinical
haematology from 2014-2017 at NorthWest General Hospital and Research Centre, Peshawar.
Later, she moved to United Kingdom for her PhD at the University of York, York, funded by
Khyber Medical University/Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. Dr Gulab Fatima completed
her PhD in biology (Immunohaematology) and returned back to Pakistan in 2021 and joined
Khyber Medical University as Assistant Professor Haematology. Currently, she is working as
Assistant Professor of Haematology at Institute of Pathology and Diagnostic Medicine, Khyber
Medical University. Dr Gulab Fatima also works in clinical haematology at Peshawar General
Hospital, Peshawar.
Research Interests:
Dr Gulab Fatima’s research interests include exploring the immune regulatory mechanisms in
infections, haematology disorders and cancers. She has previously worked on aplastic anemia,
thalassemia, autoimmune hemolytic anemia and infections such as leishmaniasis and malaria.
Expertise and courses:
Dr Gulab Fatima is a HEC approved PhD supervisor and currently supervising both MPhil and
PhD Haematology students. Apart from her clinical expertise, she is fully trained in research and
diagnostic laboratory skills including reporting of blood and bone marrow smears, PCR, flow
cytometry, Immunofluorescence.
She also teaches applied biostatistics, disorders of red blood cells, disorders of white blood
cells, transfusion medicine and clinical laboratory skills to postgraduate haematology students.
Research Publications:
1. Zahid Ali, Mohammad Ismail, Inayat Ur Rehman, Gulab Fatima Rani,
Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Tariq Masood Khan. Long-term clinical efficacy and
safety of thalidomide in patients with transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia:
results from Thal-Thalido study. Sci Rep 13, 13592 (2023).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40849-4
2. Harakeh, Steve, Ihsan Alam Khan, Gulab Fatima Rani, Muhammad Ibrahim,
Aysha Sarwar Khan, Mohammed Almuhayawi, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Addisu D.
Teklemariam, Mohannad S. Hazzazi, Waleed M. Bawazir, Hanouf A. Niyazi,
Turki Alamri, Hatoon A. Niyazi, Yasar Mehmood Yousafzai. Transplacental
Transfer of SARS-CoV-2 Receptor-Binding Domain IgG Antibodies from
Mothers to Neonates in a Cohort of Pakistani Unvaccinated Mothers.
Biomedicines 11, no. 6: 1651. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11061651
3. Gulab Fatima Rani, Olivier Preham, Helen Ashwin, Najmeeyah Brown, Ian S
Hitchcock, Paul M Kaye. Dissecting pathways to thrombocytopenia in a mouse
model of visceral leishmaniasis.Blood Advances 2021; 5 (6): 1627{1637.
https://doi:org=10:1182=bloodadvances:2020004082
4. Gulab Fatima Rani, Helen Ashwin, Najmeeyah Brown, Ian S Hitchcock, Paul
Kaye. Haematological consequences of malaria infection in mice previously
treated for visceral leishmaniasis. Wellcome Open Research 2021, 6:83.
https://doi:org=10:12688=wellcomeopenres:16629:2
5. Oliver J. Herd, Gulab Fatima Rani, James P. Hewitson, Karen Hogg, Andrew
P. Stone, Nichola Cooper, David G. Kent, Paul G. Genever, Ian S. Hitchcock.
Bone Marrow Remodelling Supports Hematopoiesis in Response to Immune
Thrombocytopenia Progression in Mice. Blood Advances 2021 Aug 24.
https://doi:org=10:1182=bloodadvances:2020003887
6. Tess A Stanly, Rakesh Suman, Gulab Fatima Rani, Peter O' Toole, Paul M
Kaye, Ian S Hitchcock. Quantitative Optical Diffraction Tomography Imaging of
Mouse Platelets. Frontiers in Physiology 2020 Sep 16; 11:568087.
http://doi:org=10:3389=fphys:2020:568087
7. James P. Hewitson, Katie A. West, Kylie R. James, Gulab Fatima Rani, Nidhi
S. Dey, Audrey Romano, Najmeeyah Brown, Sarah A. Teichmann, Paul M.
Kaye and Dimitris Lagos. Malat1 Suppresses Immunity to Infection through
Promoting Expression of Maf and IL-10 in Th Cells. Journal of Immunology 2020
Jun 1;204(11):2949-2960. https://doi:org=10:4049=jimmunol:1900940
8. Olivier Preham, Flaviane A. Pinho, Ana Isabel Pinto, Gulab Fatima Rani,
Najmeeyah Brown, Ian S. Hitchcock, Hiro Goto and Paul M. Kaye. CD4+ T Cells
Alter the Stromal Microenvironment and Repress Medullary Erythropoiesis in
Murine Visceral Leishmaniasis. Frontiers in Immunology 2018 Dec 18; 9:2958.
https://doi:org=10:3389=fimmu:2018:02958
9. Audrey Romano, Najmeeyah Brown, Helen Ashwin, Johannes SP Doehl,
Jonathan Hamp, Mohamed Osman, Nidhi Dey, Gulab Fatima Rani, Tiago
Rodrigues Ferreira, Paul M Kaye. Interferon-γ-producing CD4+ T cells drive
monocyte activation in the bone marrow during experimental Leishmania
donovani infection. Frontiers in immunology 2021 Sep 7; 12:700501.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.700501
10. Gulab Fatima Rani, Muhammad Tariq Masood Khan, Safia Jalal, Yousaf Khan,
Anisa Hussain, Shabir Khan, Jawad Ahmed, Abid Sohail Taj. Peripheral T
Lymphocyte Responses in Idiopathic Acquired Aplastic Anemia Patients
Treated with Immunosuppressive Therapy. Avicenna Journal of Medical
Sciences 2022. https://doi.org/10.59119/ajms.2022(2).2.2
