KARACHI – A student of Agha Khan University (AKU) did Pakistani nationproud by bagging the Global Pediatric Research Investigator Award by theNature Pediatric Research.

The research of Mir Ibrahim Sajid, 21, involved invention of pain-freeinvisible needles. His invention is currently awaiting clinical trials butit has successfully passed the laboratory tests.

Feeling proud over what the student has done, the AKU has congratulated MirIbrahim for winning the prestigious award.

In a blog penned by the young medical student for the Nature PediatricResearch, he revealed the motivation behind the invention.

Sajid, who hails from Punjab wrote, “Being the eldest of the three sons toa gastroenterologist physician and a maxillofacial surgeon, a large part ofmy summer vacations and leisure time was spent in hospitals. Having seenchildren in pain and refusing treatment, all while living through the abovemyself, during cannulation and blooddrawing procedures, I took it uponmyself to find a solution to trypanophobia”.

He also praised his mentor Asad I. Mian.

“The problem was highlighted in a Pediatrics-based Hackathon at myinstitute, and the idea further incubated at CCIT—resulting in the firstprototype of the proposed model,” he explained.