Breast Cancer: From Bench to Personalized Medicine

Dr. Saima Shakil Malik is currently working as Researcher at Department of Genetics, The University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has obtained her Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi. Previously she has worked as Scientific Officer at Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Rawalpindi, Assistant Professor at University of Gujrat and Visiting Researcher at the School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. Her research interests are focused on Molecular Oncology, emphasizing disease Epidemiology, Post-translational modifications, Epigenetics, DNA repair mechanisms, Drugs associated cytotoxicity, and Gene-environment interaction. She has worked on many research projects funded by national and international organizations. She is also a part of the editorial board of several journals, including Translational Oncology, Cancer Treatment, and Research Communications and current problems in cancer-case reports.

Dr. Nosheen Masood is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She completed her Ph.D. in Human Molecular Genetics at the Department of Biosciences at COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Her main research interests include molecular biology and cancer genetics, focusing on epidemiological studies, risk assessment, genomic analysis, immunohistochemistry-based diagnostics, and protein-protein interactions. She has been received various prestigious awards, notably, the Research Productivity Award 2014-2015 from the Pakistan Council of Science and Technology (PCST) category D, and Research Productivity Awards from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology for six consecutive years from 2010 to15. She has served as a reviewer for several international journals and has teaching experience in biotechnology, molecular biology, comparative genomics, environmental biology, regulation of geneexpression, and molecular evolution. Dr. Masood has published several research articles in respected, peer-reviewed international journals and authored or co-authored various book chapters.