education/career: Currently getting my PhD in Stem Cell Biology in UIC college of medicine, Chicago (prospective graduation is in 2024 inshAllah). Overall career goal is to go into academia and become a professor or work in clinical research with an adjunct appointment in a medical college. 
I have a bachelors in biomedical sciences from the University of Waterloo and a Masters in Biology from the Jacobs school of medicine (Buffalo, NY) 

Background: Parents are both from Karachi and immigrated to the US  and then moved to Canada - I was born in NY and grew up in Toronto, my entire family is there (I moved to Chicago in 2021). 

Hobbies and Interests: I enjoy running and doing kickboxing, I consider myself an active person, I also enjoy cooking and baking, I also would consider myself fairly social and enjoy hosting my friends at my apartment and going out to dinners

Religiosity: My deen is important to me, I try to pray 5 times a day, attend halaqas on a weekly basis and learn more about islam and increase my tawakkul and taqwa - I personally am not a hijabi, but may consider it in the future