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Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) was founded in 1965 as a National Institution for higher learning and research with Biological Sciences as one of its Departments. This Department had been offering the degree of M.Sc., M.Phil and Ph.D. in various disciplines of life sciences. In 2006, Department of Biological Sciences was upgraded to Faculty of Biological Sciences and Microbiology was introduced as a separate Department along with four others. The Department of Microbiology of QAU is well recognized for teaching and research in Pakistan and is equipped with modern research facilities. The major equipments present are; UV visible Spectrophotometers, Fermenters (Lab Scale and Pilot Scale), Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Gas Chromatography (GC), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Gel Electrophoresis unit both for protein and DNA analysis, PCR Machines, Autoclaves, Microscopes, Shaking Incubators, Biological Safety Cabinets, Centrifuges, and Incubators etc. Till December 2016, 87 Ph.D and 501 M.Phil degrees have been awarded to students worked on various research areas in the domain of Microbiology. In addition to this 556 students have obtained the degree of M.Sc in Microbiology.

The faculty members have been able to get research grants from USAID (IEP), British Council, Higher Education Commission, Pakistan Sciences Foundation, Biotechnology Commission, Pakistan Telecommunication, BioMeriex, France, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others. Young teachers and PhD students of the Department have opportunities to proceed abroad for research under the International Research Support Initiative Programme (HEC), Matsumae International Fellowship Research Program (Japan), Split PhD program, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (Spain), The Scientific and Technological Research Council for Turkey, HEC and Fulbright Post-doctoral fellowships (USA). Currently, the Department of Microbiology is offering B.S, M.Sc., M.Phil and Ph.D. degree programs. Efforts are also being made to bridge the gap between the lab. scale to pilot scale productions of microbial metabolites of commercial importance. Broadly, the research programs for M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees cover various areas of microbiology including;

1. Applied Microbiology	2. Environmental Microbiology
3. Industrial Microbiology	4. Soil Microbiology
5. Medical Microbiology	6. Mycology
7. Fermentation/Bioprocessing	8. Virology
9. Molecular Microbiology	10. Immonology
11. Food and Nutritional Microbiology	12. Geomicrobiology
13. Marine Microbiology	14. Bioenergy and Bio-refinery