LAHORE: (Monday, January 2, 2023): Punjab University has awarded five PhD degrees to the scholars in which Nazish Saleem D/o Muhammad Saleem in the subject of Chemistry after approval of her thesis entitled ‘Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Glucose Metabolism in Non-Diabetic Obese Women’, Muhammad Adnan Ashraf S/o Muhammad Ashraf in the subject of Polymer Technology after approval of his thesis entitled ‘Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Polymeric Membranes for Dialysis Applications’, Aneela Yasmeen D/o Malik Khuda Bakhsh Khichi in the subject of Molecular Biology after approval of her thesis entitled ‘Cas9-medicated Gene Knock Down of Vacuolar Invertase (VInv) Gene Of Solanum Tuberosum to Reduce Tuber Sweetening During Long Term Storage’, Zainab Irfan D/o Muhammad Irfan in the subject of Zoology after approval of her thesis entitled ‘Black Carbon Concentrations at Inland Glacier Receding and its Impacts on Biodiversity Loss’ and Zona Zaidi D/o Jamal Zaidi in the subject of Zoology after approval of her thesis entitled ‘Fish Assemblages of Mountainous Indus River Tributaries and its Association with Environmental Variables’.