Dr. Farah Al-Marzooq is an assistant professor of bacteriology in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University. She is a medical doctor specializing in molecular microbiology. She obtained her medical degree from Baghdad Medical College, Iraq, in 2007. Then, she furthered her studies in Malaysia, where she obtained master's and Ph.D. degrees in molecular microbiology. During postgraduate studies, her research mainly focused on unrevealing the antibiotic resistance mechanisms of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumonia. Following her Ph.D., she joined the Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, UAE, as a postdoctoral research associate. Her researc mainly focused on discovering the antibacterial activities of potential drug leads against resistant bacteria and identifying putative drug targets against antibiotic-resistant bacteria implicated in causing many life-threatening infections. Furthermore, she worked on studying the composition of oral microbiota in health and disease, using advanced molecular techniques incorporating next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms. She has published several papers in peer-reviewed international journals. She has two U.S. patents and one international patent.