Ms. Faouzia Tanveer is a Ph.D. scholar currently working under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Zabta Khan Shinwari at department of Biotechnology, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. Her area of specialization is Biotechnology, Microbiology, Environmental Sciences, Bioethics, Biosafety, dual use education, and Molecular Biology. She has done masters in Environmental Sciences from Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi. Her M. Phil degree is in Biotechnology from Quaid-e-Azam University with basic research work involving role of plant growth promoting bacteria in bioremediation. Her current research work aims at Biological and Metabolic profiling of marine bacteria as source of bioactive natural products with important applications in biomedical research.