Another senior doctor at AMU's medical college died from coronavirus on Tuesday, taking the number of deaths from among serving and retired faculty members of the university to at least 35.
Prof Shoaib Zaheer is the second senior faculty member from the Department of Medicine who has died from the infection.
Last week, the head of the department, Prof Shadaab Khan, too had succumbed to it.
AMU Vice-Chancellor Tariq Mansoor has shot off a letter to the Indian Council of Medical Research, urging it to study if a particular coronavirus variant is circulating around the campus.
The medical college had also sent some samples for genome sequencing to the Institute of Genomic and Integrated Biology Laboratory in New Delhi.