Fatima Zaidi
George Mason University, USA
Biography
Fatima Zaidi is a Pharmacist by training. She has completed her Master of Molecular Biology from George Mason University, USA. She is currently pursuing her Doctoral degree (Cell and Molecular Biology) at George Mason University and is affiliated with Mason Metabolomics facility operated in the Couch Lab at Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, GMU. She has completed her Biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) and Animal Biosafety level 3 (ABSL-3) training. She has been awarded Elaine Joyce Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award by GMU in May 2017. Her research interests include but not limited to understanding general health and well-being, including metabolic and infectious diseases. To this end, her research focuses on the development and application of metabolomics-based in vitro diagnostics (IVDs).