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Pakistan-born scientist Asifa Akhtar has become the first international female vice president of the biology and medicine section at Germany’s prestigious Max Planck Society, foreign media reported. The Max Planck Society is Germany’s most successful research organisation. Since its establishment in 1948, as many as 18 researchers of the society have won Nobel prize. Born in 1971 in Karachi Pakistan, the biologist is the first international female Vice President in the Biology and Medicine Section of Germany’s premier scientific organisation. Under her new role, Asifa would now be in charge of the Institutes of this Section and will also be the contact person for the Max Planck Schools.
