Sheikh Gulzaar is presently Head & Director
Jammu and Kashmir Medicinal Plants Introdiction
Centre (
For health care, social equity & biodiversity conservation ), a reputed Research & Development (R&d), Srinagar. He has been actively associated in research and development (R&D) in the field of cultivation o
f medicinal herbs, green health mission, ethnobotany and conservation biology. He has contributed more than 20 research paper, general articles in national and international journals of repute. He is the author of two popular books, one of them is wildly acclaimed entitled "
Medicinal plants of Himalaya" (Urdu Edition). He is the member of several societies concerned with botanical 01 environmental research and development. He has extensively travelled to the remote areas o1 Himalaya and has been devoted to record the traditional heritage knowledge of the folk people, beside his concern in the biodiversity and sustainable use of plant resources in the Kashmir Himalaya.