Sadaf Naz
Professor Sadaf Naz is a geneticist who received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Punjab, Lahore for her studies on recessively inherited deafness in Pakistan. She conducted post-doctoral research at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA on the genetics of hearing loss in humans and animal models. In 2005, she was appointed as a faculty member at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Punjab. Her research interests encompass the genetics of moderate-to-severe hearing loss, movement and neurodevelopmental disorders, skeletal dysplasias, as well as psychiatric disorders using conventional genetic methods or massively parallel sequencing.