Saif received his B.Sc. from University of Michigan Ann Arbor in Cell & Molecular Biology in 2008, and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University – School of Medicine in Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry in 2014. After a brief period at UAE University as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Saif was appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Physiology at University of Pennsylvania – Perelman School of Medicine (2015 – 2018). He officially joined the College of Medicine at Mohammed Bin Rashid University in 2017. Saif’s research interests include understanding how the actin cytoskeleton is hijacked by pathogens during infection, studying protein dysfunction caused by mutations in protein-coding genes found in rare genetic disorders, and engineering therapeutic molecules to tackle infectious diseases and cancer.