The People Building ARCH
Three founders provide strategic direction and oversee board-level decisions. Day-to-day operations are led by the Executive Director, while the entire team works together as a cohesive, high-functioning unit. Below are the team members and links to their published work.
Founders
Danyal Bakht
Dr. Danyal Bakht co-founded ARCH after building a distinguished research career grounded in scholarly precision. An alumnus of King Edward Medical University, he has been awarded gold medals in both higher secondary education and MBBS. He holds particular interest in cardiothoracic surgery. To date, his research portfolio includes over 50 publications and 350+ citations, spanning meta-analyses, systematic reviews, narrative reviews, and case reports, and was recognized with the Best Meta-Analysis Award at ISC 2024. Dr. Bakht has led more than 15 research projects to completion so far, with multiple abstract acceptances at leading international conferences, including the ACC, AHA, DDW, and ACG.
Maaz amir
A physician and research mentor, Dr. Maaz Bin Amir graduated from King Edward Medical University, Lahore, with an MBBS degree and 8 distinctions across multiple basic and clinical subjects. Alongside his medical journey, he has built an extensive research portfolio of over 35 pubmed indexed publications. His work has been presented in leading journals including Circulation, JACC, and JSCAI. He has been awarded Dr Sajjad Hamdani Undergraduate Research Award by King Edward Medical University. Beyond his own research output, Dr. Maaz has mentored more than 100 early-career researchers through systematic reviews and meta-analyses, guiding them from title selection through to publication. He co-founded ARCH to extend that mentorship at scale — training the next generation of health sciences researchers.
Muhammad arham
Dr. Muhammad Arham holds two honors and two distinctions and is a USMLE aspirant with a strong focus on cardiology and clinical academics. He has co-authored 30+ peer-reviewed publications and has hands-on expertise in R, frequentist and Bayesian statistical methods, and AI-based forecasting models. He has led more than 15 research projects to completion and currently leads PULSE Cardiology, an academic research group he founded. Previously, he served as META Lead for the international SHORE Research Team. Research from his abstracts team received first prize at the Brooklyn Psychiatry Society 2026 Residents’ Poster Session.
Executive Director
Muhammad Aayan
A second-year MBBS student at Nawaz Sharif Medical College, Gujrat, Muhammad Aayan Farooqi has maintained 2 distinctions alongside a growing footprint in student leadership and research. He currently serves as Vice President of the Namcolians' Research Society (NRS), where he supports research culture-building and mentorship among peers. Drawing on considerable experience in management and outreach, he has collaborated with several research organizations and contributed to a diverse range of research projects.