Biography:
Dr. Abeera Sikandar is an Assistant Professor in the Integrated Sciences and Mathematics Program at Habib University in Karachi, Pakistan. She earned her PhD in Cancer Biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) as a Fulbright Scholar. Her research focuses on the role of protein homeostasis in development and disease, particularly how ubiquitin-mediated protein turnover controls key regulators of cell differentiation and how its disruption contributes to pathology, including cancer. At Habib University, she teaches and mentors undergraduates at the interface of biology, data, and computation, and she is building a research program on protein stability as a therapeutic entry point in cancer.
