The University of Health Sciences (UHC) in Lahore has doubled student research grants by 100 percent.
According to UHC Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr. Javed Akram, the institute is the only medical university in the country that spends more than 10% of its budget on research.
The varsity has increased the research grant of M.Phil students from Rs125,000 to Rs250,000.
On the other hand, the research grant for Ph.D. students has been increased from Rs400,000 to Rs700,000.
Also, students will be receiving an allowance equivalent to yearly fees for getting their research papers published.
Prof Javed Akram said, “UHS gets higher rankings on the basis of its research performance.”
UHS has set aside Rs170.6 million for the research in the next fiscal year.
