Atia-tul-Wahab, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences), University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan. She is trained as a structural and synthetic organic chemist, and received additional training in structural biology in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Prof. Dr. Kurt Wüthrich at The Scripps Research Institute. She is now establishing the first Structural Biology Laboratory of Pakistan at the PCMD.