Naeem Ullah was born in Swat, Pakistan, in 1985. He completed his BS (Hons) and MPhil degrees in biochemistry at Hazara University, Pakistan. In 2016, he was awarded a Chinese Government Scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. In 2020, he completed his doctorate, gaining diverse expertise in inflammation associated with cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes. In 2021, he joined Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, as a postdoctoral fellow, where he worked on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and virulence factor (VF) genes and established a rapid RPA assay for ESBL and mcr-1 detection in E. coli. In March 2024, he joined Umeå University, Sweden, as a postdoctoral fellow. Currently, he is studying the interaction of bacterial extracellular vesicles (BEVs) associated with metalloproteases and pore-forming toxins (PFTs) in mammalian cells.