Syed A. Naqi

Dr. Syed A. Naqi in a faculty photograph. Physical description: black-and -white print (photograph)17X12mmDr. Syed A. Naqi in listed in the 1979-1980 Faculty Directory with the following information. "Associate Professor of Veterinary Microbiology & Parasitology; B.V.Sc. (D.V.M.)-Osmania U. (India)1961; M.S. 1967 and Ph.D. 1969 in Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology at Texas A&M ; Diplomate, A.C.V.M." As of 2017 he was listed as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology. One of his special areas of study is Avian medicine. He left Texas in 1987 to join the faculty at Cornell University and as of 2016 was teaching Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar. "Syed had an interesting history. After completing his veterinary training at Osmania University in India, he took a position as a Research Associate with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) India Program, managing a large poultry operation in that country. Dr. Earl Moore, who had been on the Cornell faculty as a turkey pathologist in the late 1940s and early 1950s, was in India at the time working with the USAID program helping to modernize the poultry Industry. He met Dr. Naqi and, impressed with his abilities, convinced him to come to the United States for advanced work in avian medicine. Syed did so, earning an MS (1967) and a PhD (1969) at Texas A&M University and ultimately joining the avian disease faculty there. Thus, there was a link between Naqi and Calnek in that they both were indebted to Earl Moore for the nudges that teered them into research careersin avian medicine. Dr. Naqi gained a strong reputation for both his teaching and his research skills and represented an ideal addition to our faculty. Accordingly, he was aggressively recruited and was appointed as a Full Professor with tenure." [Calnek, Bruce W. , A History of Avian Medicine at Cornell University 1898-2008. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University. Ithaca, NY https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4918935.pdf