Department of Natural and Basic Sciences

Welcome to the Department of Natural and Basic Sciences

The department of natural and basic sciences will provide strong support to establish interdisciplinary advanced research among the existing departments or future opening departments in the field of life sciences at the University of Turbat. The overall aim of this department is to foster interaction of existing departments of universities by developing interdisciplinary modern bioscience research. It will help to develop a world-class center in basic, chemical, and biological sciences in university doing both advanced research and education. The department of natural and basic sciences will enhance the existing capacity of research and education in the faculty of science through the creation of interdisciplinary natural sciences research and education along with re-grouping research activities as per the current requirements and priorities.

More than 2000 pre-medical students are annually passed they're intermediate in different colleges of Mekran region and due to not the availability of degree programs in biological sciences like botany, zoology, biotechnology, microbiology, etc. in the University of Turbat these candidates are suffering a lot problem for getting admission in other universities of the province as well as in-country. The department of biological sciences at the University of Turbat will offer various subjects including biochemistry, biotechnology, bioinformatics, microbiology, zoology, botany, genetics, and biomedical sciences, and will give a great opportunity to the students to choose different programs in the department. It will not only facilitate the students of pre-medical but also enhance the academic and research quality of University in life science and will meet the demand of society in the field of life science. It will boost our students’ employability in the health and food industries.

Mission

The mission of the natural and basic departments is to develop and spread knowledge in the field of natural and basic sciences.

Vision

The department of natural and basic sciences, University of Turbat will be recognized as leader institute at the regional, national, and international levels for research and education in life sciences.

Objectives

The specific objective is to upgrade the post-graduate teaching and training laboratories in terms of infrastructure and equipment, appoint new faculty, provide fellowships for students, introduce training programs to regroup research activities along the natural science innovation chain (from discovery to market), promote academia-industry interaction depending upon the strengths and weaknesses of specific of faculty of science and engineering in University. The proposal of establishment of the department of natural and basic sciences to fulfill the following objectives: