{"id":6368,"date":"2014-01-15T16:39:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/01\/15\/doctor-by-day-balti-king-by-night\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:44:28","slug":"doctor-by-day-balti-king-by-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/15\/doctor-by-day-balti-king-by-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor By Day, Balti King by Night"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By day, Mohammed Ashraf works as a pioneering DNA scientist; however by night he works in his family run restaurant; Haweli. <\/div>\n

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After completing his degree at Aston University, Mohammed Ashraf, 44, stayed on to do a PhD; work which is helping scientists save both time and money. <\/div>\n

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He spent four years working on \u201cefficient methods of randomising DNA, which would enable scientists to make more than one trillion variations of a natural protein for potential drugs or biotechnology use.\u201d <\/div>\n

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Alongside research supervisor, Dr Anna Hine, he became the first student of PhD to \u201cwork on developing the technique and was a co-inventor on resulting patents.\u201d <\/div>\n

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Mohammed Ashraf said, \u201cA lot of people still remember me studying with my biology books on a table in the the restaurant.<\/div>\n

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\u201cDoing scientific research and achieving my PhD was a lifelong ambition. I wanted to prove to myself I could do it, and I wanted to be able to call myself a \u2018doctor\u2019. <\/div>\n

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\n“But I never thought of becoming a full-time scientist. I love my business because of the people you meet \u2013 people who have become more than customers and are now good friends.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cI even made a poster of my research work and put it up on the wall of the restaurant. I\u2019m proud of it.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Works at Aston University and Haverli Restaurant By day, Mohammed Ashraf works as a pioneering DNA scientist; however by night he works in his family run restaurant; Haweli. \u00a0 \u00a0 After completing his degree at Aston University, Mohammed Ashraf, 44, stayed on to do a PhD; work which is helping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}