Dr. Sadaf Naz is a human molecular geneticist who received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of the Punjab. She conducted post-doctoral work at NIDCD, National Institutes of Health, USA on the molecular 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 the Punjab, Lahore and established the laboratory for deciphering the molecular basis of genetic disorders. Dr. Sadaf Naz is a member of the Pakistan Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology as well as the American Society of Human Genetics. She has received multiple awards for her research from both national and international agencies.