Department of Food Science Technology
Department of Food Science and Technology is the parent department at Faculty of Food Science & Nutrition, and was established in 2013. Formerly, it had a nomenclature of Department of Food and Horticultural Sciences under the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences & Technology.The department under the dynamic leadership of the founding chairperson Prof. Dr. Saeed Akhtar has tremendously contributed towards the growth, regional and national recognition of the Food Sciences as a discipline. The department is equipped with state of the art teaching and research infrastructure and is proudly presented as the only Higher Education Institution of the country with six pilot food processing facilities including professional baking unit, mineral water production facility, Juices and beverages production facility, fruits and vegetables dehydration facility, edible oil processing facility and essential oil production facility. The department has highly learned faculty with international exposure from world top ranked universities. The teaching faculty at the Department of Food Science & Technology has an excellent research profile. With the efforts of its’ teaching staff, the department has cumulatively securedmany competitive research grants from national and international funding agencies which worth more than 50million PKR. Leadership of the department is committed to ensure its research labs engaged in generating novel ideas and high market value solutions for the regional and national food industry. Every project being taken up at our master and doctoral level thesis is meant to satisfy current and future needs of the industry and the consumer.