Dr Saima Rehman joined the Garnett Lab at King's College London in 2019 to study the interactions between humans and microbes. She employs a combination of advanced techniques such as X-ray Crystallography, NMR and cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy to obtain high-resolution structures, which could help develop novel vaccine targets or drug designs.

Saima previously worked in Sweden as a Research Engineer at Lund University and MAX-IV Synchrotron and was awarded a fellowship at Umeå University. In the United Kingdom she has worked as a Research Associate at the University of Bath and as a Facility Officer at the University of Cambridge LMB-MRC.

She earned her PhD with distinction in Molecular Biophysics from Queen Mary University of London, where she engaged in structural biochemistry research, specifically macro-molecular X-ray crystallography. Saima also holds an MPhil and MSc in Biochemistry and a BSc in Chemistry. Throughout her career, she has worked on a range of microbiology and molecular biology research projects, including human angiogenesis, neurodegenerative disorders, pathogenic bacterial secretion systems, bacterial conjugation, antibiotic resistance, human aminotransferases, and human carbonic anhydrase. Her protein structure depositions in the Protein Databank were developed at different synchrotrons worldwide, including Diamond Light Source UK, MAX-IV Sweden, and ESRF France.