Professional Summary
Dr Saima Siddiqi is senior scientist of IBGE, with research experience of twenty-six years in the field of diseased and population genetics. Her core area of interest is finding the genetic basis of many common and rare syndromes.
Key Research Areas & Contributions
- Dr Saima Siddiqi worked on different diseased families’ genetics and found many novel mutations.
- Her population genetics work led her to explore rare and unique variations that exist in our different population groups.
- To further explore the disease potential of Pakistan genetically, she has proposed one of Pakistan’s most ambitious and much-needed scientific ventures: The Pakistan Human Genome Project. This endeavour will help to map the country’s diverse population, a milestone with the potential to revolutionize healthcare, disease prediction, and precision medicine in Pakistan.
- Her other projects include the genetic basis of Guillain-Barré Syndrome, finding COVID-19 disease susceptibility markers in the Pakistani population, genetic risk factors for stroke and database establishment for personalized medicine in Pakistan.
Grants, Honours & Awards
- Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, 2024
- Travel grant by Pakistan Science Foundation, 2023
- 2017 Best Research Paper Award in Health Sciences, by HEC in 2019
- Post Doc Scholarship awarded by the Higher Education Commission, Scheme 2009-2010
- Travel grant by HEC for paper presentation in DNA in Forensics Conference, Ancona, Italy, 2008
- Funded project by PAS for the year 2021-2023
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) VENI grant 91-614-084 to MvdV, NWO Brain and Cognition Excellence Program grant (433-09229) to Annette Schenck, VIDI, ZonMW TOP subsidies 912-12-109 to Annette Schenck and 4000812-98-09047 to Hannie Kremer
- Grant 2012-305121 ‘NEUROMICS’