Dr. Muhammad Sajjad holds the position of “Tenured Associate Professor” in the Department of Bioscience at COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan. He is also a member of the National Center for Genome Editing (NCGE). Dr. Sajjad's research interests revolve around enhancing yield potential, stress tolerance, and nutritional quality in cereals by leveraging the latest genetic, genomic, and genome editing tools. He earned his PhD from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, with an international fellowship at ARS-USDA, California. Following that, he pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at IGDB, CAS, Beijing (2015-2017), and successfully completed his CAS-PIFI fellowship at CIB, CAS, in 2023. Dr. Sajjad is renowned for his discoveries of novel yield and quality-related genes in bread wheat, along with the development of user-friendly markers for marker-assisted selection (MAS) in wheat. He has also devised a protocol for the discovery and haplotyping of multiple genes within a vast collection of accessions in bread wheat, which has been filed for a patent in Beijing. Additionally, he has introduced a simplified method for preserving wheat pollen grains. Dr. Sajjad's contributions to the field are reflected in his extensive publication record, with over 80 research articles in SCI journals.