Samawia Khan

I'm Bioinformatician

Freelance Bioinformatician at Self-Employed (2022-01 – Present)

Delivering professional bioinformatics services to researchers, biotech startups, and healthcare clients worldwide

• Deliver professional bioinformatics services to researchers, biotech startups, and healthcare clients worldwide
• Specialize in NGS data analysis, differential gene expression, genome annotation, and drug target identification
• Perform structural bioinformatics tasks including protein modeling, molecular docking, and simulation using AlphaFold2, Chimera, PyRx, and GROMACS
• Provide consultation on research design, pipeline development, and data visualization
• Support scientific publications by preparing high-quality figures, results interpretation, and LaTeX-based formatting

Research Reviewer at MIT Solve (2020-08 – 2021-11)

Reviewed global innovations projects and supervised social innovation challenges

• Reviewed global innovations projects for 'The Elevate Prize' competition among different countries
• Supervised the Octava Social Innovation Challenge, supporting international impact solutions

Lecturer at Prime Minister Youth Program (2017-01 – 2017-09)

Delivered science lectures and mentored students at public schools

• Delivered science lectures and mentored over 100 students at public schools
• Promoted inquiry-based learning and science literacy in underrepresented areas

Research Assistant at NUST RCMS (2016-07 – 2016-08)

Conducted Computer-Aided Drug Design research on dengue and zika viruses

• Conducted Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) on dengue and zika viruses
• Presented research findings to the Ministry of Science & Technology

MS in Bioinformatics – National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) (2017-01 – 2019-12)

BS in Bioinformatics – COMSATS University (2013-01 – 2017-12)

Diploma in Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery – Iqra Medical College (2013-01 – 2017-12)

B.Ed in Bachelor of Education – Allama Iqbal Open University (2018-01 – 2019-12)