A prominent professor from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Prof. Wazahat Husain, has won a global prize for traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine.

During an occasion hosted by the Zayed Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation, Husain, a retired chairman of the AMU Department of Botany, was presented with the Second Sheikh Zayed International Award.

The Foundation is a UAE-based non-governmental, non-profit organisation that invests in developing human capital to improve the quality of life, according to the Foundation’s website.

The award aims to give recognition to eminent academics and scientists of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM) globally, and TCAM physicians from the UAE, for enhancing TCAM knowledge and practices, and contributing to improving the quality of life for humanity, it said.

A plant taxonomy expert, Husain has been conferred Lifetime Achievement Awards twice, once jointly by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the AYUSH ministry and then by the Wildlife Institute of India and Department of Wildlife Sciences, AMU.

 Prof. Husain said he was honoured to be representing AMU and India at the pinnacle of his academic career.

“Academics do not work for recognition, but when they come, they must be accepted with humility. I dedicate this award to my university and my country,” Prof Husain said.