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Scientific Editing, Writing, and Research Support from a Published PhD Researcher (8+ Years of Experience)

Profile Summary

I am a PhD researcher in genetics and neuroscience at the Division of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, UK, and an experienced scientific and medical editor and writer. Since 2019 I have helped researchers turn complex science into clear, publication-ready work, with over 1,000 biomedical manuscripts copyedited or proofread for international authors and editing companies. I work as a publishing author, not only a language specialist. I hold eight peer-reviewed publications, five as first author, plus a first-author preprint. I have written and revised my own Introductions, Results, and Discussions to journal standard, responded to reviewers, and navigated the full submission cycle. That means I edit and write at the level of the science, not the grammar alone, and I understand exactly what a manuscript needs to clear editorial screening and peer review. What I offer: Scientific editing and proofreading. Thorough language and substantive editing for non-native English authors: grammar, structure, flow, terminology, and alignment of claims with data. Delivered as tracked changes with clear comments. Manuscript and review writing. Original research articles, review articles, and reports written from your data, notes, or outline, structured to the conventions of your target journal. Literature reviews and secondary research. Systematic and narrative literature synthesis, gap analysis, and evidence-based argument building across the biomedical sciences. Submission and revision support. Formatting to author guidelines, reference checking, cover letters, and well-reasoned response-to-reviewer letters. Data interpretation and discussion writing. Clear interpretation of results against the current literature, including statistics and figures. Fields I cover: genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience, behaviour, circadian biology, bioinformatics and comparative genomics, microbiology, and biomedical sciences. How I work: I verify every citation against its primary source, follow UK or US academic conventions to match your target journal, and treat all unpublished work as confidential. I agree timelines and scope before starting, and I am happy to complete a short sample edit so you can judge the standard first. Whether you need a manuscript polished, a review written, or a body of literature mapped and synthesised, I deliver rigorous, reliable, submission-ready work. Send me your project and I will respond within 24 hours. Mehran Akhtar, Division of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, UK.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Molecular Biology
• ★ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ★ Scientific Proofreading & Editing
• ☆ Computational Biology
• ☆ Microbiology
• ☆ Biochemistry
• ☆ Biomarkers
• ☆ Genetics
• ☆ Microarrays
• ☆ Epigenetics
• ☆ PCR
• ☆ Molecular Cloning
• ☆ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ☆ ATAC-Seq
• ☆ DNA Sequencing
• ☆ Synthetic Genomics
• ☆ Protein Sequencing
• ☆ Gene Expression Analysis
• ☆ Genome Sequencing
• ☆ Microinjection
• ☆ Mutagenesis
• ☆ Exome Sequencing
• ☆ Recombinant DNA
• ☆ RNA Synthesis
• ☆ RNA Sequencing
• ☆ DNA/Gene Synthesis
• ☆ Oligonucleotide Synthesis
• ☆ Plasmid DNA
• ☆ DNA Damage & Repair
• ☆ ChIP-Seq
• ☆ Kinases
• ☆ Monoclonal Antibody Production
• ☆ Molecular Ecology
• ☆ Neuroscience
• ☆ Neurochemistry
• ☆ Neurophysiology
• ☆ Visual Neuroscience
• ☆ Behavioral Neuroscience
• ☆ Computational Neuroscience
• ☆ Cognitive Neuroscience
• ☆ Neuroanatomy
• ☆ Developmental Neuroscience
• ☆ Molecular Neuroscience
• ☆ Neurobiology
• ☆ Systems Neuroscience
• ☆ Histology
• ☆ Microscopy
• ☆ Cryosectioning
• ☆ Light Microscopy
• ☆ Fluorescence Microscopy
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ Blotting
• ☆ Immunohistochemistry
• ☆ Phylogenetics
• ☆ Population Genetics
• ☆ Circadian Rhythm Research
• ☆ Human Biology
• ☆ Research

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Medical Writing, Technical Writing, Copywriting, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Market Research, User Research, Meta-Research, Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Data Visualization, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Work Experience

Research Associate

Deprtment of Biotechnology, Comsats University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan

October 2019 - Present

Editor and Proofreader (Scientific Manuscripts)

Freelance, Self-employed

August 2018 - Present

Postgraduate Researcher

University of Leicester

January 2023 - January 2027

Research Assistant

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology - Abbottabad Campus

February 2021 - February 2022

Trainee Researcher

Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan

August 2018 - August 2019

Researcher

Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan

September 2017 - August 2019

Education

PhD (Department of Genetics and Genome Biology)

University of Leicester

January 2023 - May 2026

MS (Biotechnology)

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology - Abbottabad Campus

September 2019 - July 2022

BS (Biotechnology)

Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan

September 2014 - July 2018

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

PREPRINT

Mehran Akhtar, Yu-Chien Hung, Nawel Medjadi, Johan Bence, Flaviano Giorgini, Mervyn G Thomas, Ko-Fan Chen (2026). Drosophila orthologues of oculocutaneous albinism-associated genes regulate sleep and circadian rhythm via visual neurotransmission .

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Mehran Akhtar, Yu-Chien Hung, Nithish Sattoju, Xinghua Li, Steven Head, Tobias Ollerenshaw, Clelia Siefer-Gaillardin, Jashmine Arulchelvan, Ben Warren, Ko-Fan Chen (2026). A day sleep promoting role of phototransduction in Drosophila melanogaster . Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms.

(2022). Screening for Deleterious non-synonymous SNPs in Human CCL21 Gene using in-silico analysis . NUST Journal of Natural Sciences.

Mehran Akhtar, Yasir Ali, Zia-ul Islam, Maria Arshad, Mamoona Rauf, Muhammad Ali, Saleh N. Maodaa, Saleh A. Al-Farraj, Hamed A. El-Serehy, Fazal Jalil (2021). Characterization of Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk-Associated SNPs and Identification of Novel Therapeutic Sites Using an In-Silico Approach . Biology.

Mehran Akhtar, Yasir Ali, Zia-ul Islam, Maria Arshad, Mamoona Rauf, Muhammad Ali, Saleh N. Maodaa, Saleh A. Al-Farraj, Hamed A. El-Serehy, Fazal Jalil (2021). Characterization of Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk-Associated SNPs and Identification of Novel Therapeutic Sites Using an <i>In-Silico</i> Approach . Biology.

Mehran Akhtar, Yasir Ali, Suleman Khan, Yangchao Chen, Nadia Farooqi, Zia-Ul Islam, Aamir, Aisha Aman, Aftab Ali Shah, Muhsin Jamal, et al. (2021). Association of AFF3 Gene Polymorphism rs10865035 with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Population-Based Case-Control Study on a Pakistani Cohort . Genetics Research.

Akhtar, Mehran, Ali, Yasir, Khan, Suleman, Chen, Yangchao, Farooqi, Nadia, Islam, Zia-Ul, Aamir, Aman, Aisha, Shah, Aftab Ali, Jamal, Muhsin, et al. (2021). Association of <i>AFF3</i> Gene Polymorphism rs10865035 with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Population-Based Case-Control Study on a Pakistani Cohort . Genetics Research.

Akhtar, Mehran, Ali, Yasir, Islam, Zia-ul, Arshad, Maria, Rauf, Mamoona, Ali, Muhammad, Maodaa, Saleh N., Al-Farraj, Saleh A., El-Serehy, Hamed A., Jalil, Fazal (2021). Characterization of Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk-Associated SNPs and Identification of Novel Therapeutic Sites Using an In-Silico Approach . Biology.

Akhtar, Mehran, Jamal, Tazkira, Khan, Mudassir, Khan, Shah Rukh, Haider, Shohra, Jalil, Fazal (2021). CRISPR Cas System: An efficient tool for cancer modelling . The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association.

(2020). In Silico Identification of Novel Acute Myeloid Leukemia Associated Missense SNPs in Human CEBPA Gene . Abasyn Journal of Life Sciences.

(2020). Insights intoAcute Myeloid Leukemia: Critical Analysis on its Wide Aspects . Abasyn Journal of Life Sciences.

Mehran Akhtar, Suleman Khan, Yasir Ali, Shohra Haider, Jalal ud Din, Zia-ul Islam, Fazal Jalil(2020). Association study of CCR6 rs3093024 with Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Pakistani cohort . Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 27. (12). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 3354--3358. Elsevier {BV}

(2020). CRISPR Cas System: an efficient tool for cancer modelling . Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association.

Akhtar, Mehran, Khan, Suleman, Ali, Yasir, Haider, Shohra, Din, Jalal Ud, Zia-ul Islam, Jalil, Fazal (2020). Association study of CCR6 rs3093024 with Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Pakistani cohort . Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences.

Mehran Akhtar, Tazkira Jamal, Jalal ud Din, Chandni Hayat, Mamoona Rauf, Syed Manzoor ul Haq, Raham Sher Khan, Aftab Ali Shah, Muhsin Jamal, Fazal Jalil(2019). An in silico approach to characterize nonsynonymous SNPs and regulatory SNPs in human TOX3 gene . Journal of Genetics. 98. (5). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Mehran Akhtar, Tazkira Jamal, Hina Jamal, Jalal Ud Din, Muhsin Jamal, Muhammad Arif, Maria Arshad, Fazal Jalil (2019). Identification of most damaging nsSNPs in human CCR6 gene: In silico analyses . International Journal of Immunogenetics.

Akhtar, Mehran, Jamal, Tazkira, Jamal, Hina, Din, Jalal Ud, Jamal, Muhsin, Arif, Muhammad, Arshad, Maria, Jalil, Fazal (2019). Identification of most damaging nsSNPs in human <i>CCR6</i> gene: In silico analyses . International Journal of Immunogenetics.

Akhtar, Mehran, Jamal, Tazkira, Din, Jalal Ud, Hayat, Chandni, Rauf, Mamoona, ul Haq, Syed Manzoor, Khan, Raham Sher, Shah, Aftab Ali, Jamal, Muhsin, Jalil, Fazal (2019). An in silico approach to characterize nonsynonymous SNPs and regulatory SNPs in human TOX3 gene . Journal of Genetics.