LAHORE: (Wednesday, December 26, 2012): Punjab University has awarded 07 PhD degrees to the scholars in which Muhammad Sami Ullah S/o Abdul Latif Saddique in the subject of Islamic Studies after approval of his thesis entitled “The Contemporary Western Approaches Towards Radical Islamic Movements (The Case of Bernard Lewis and John Louis Esposito)”, Umaira Ikram D/o Sheikh Ikram ud Din in the subject of Art & Design after approval of her thesis entitled “Thematic and Stylistic Analysis of Series of Paintings on the Ceiling of Gallery Saqequain’’, Khitab Gul S/o Tawab Gul in the subject of Molecular Biology after approval of his thesis entitled “Search for A New Deafness Locus by Linkage Analysis”, Kamran Mirza S/o Mirza Ejaz Ahmad in the subject of Geology after approval of his thesis entitled “Biostratigraphy of the Eocene Succession of the Kohat Basin”, Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman S/o Hayat Muhammad in the subject of Biological Sciences after approval of his thesis entitled “Molecular Characterization of Virus(es) Infecting Hollyhock (Alcea Rosea L.) Samples Exhibiting Different Symptoms”. Muhammad Akram Tariq S/o Ghulam Muhammad in the subject of Molecular Biology after approval of his thesis entitled “Genetic Characterization of Polymorphic X-Chromosomal STRs for Forensic DNA Analysis” and Fatima Ali D/o Ali Muhammad in the subject of Molecular Biology after approval of her thesis entitled “Role of Preconditioned Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Repair of Diabetic Heart”.