Dr. Saiqa Ishtiaq has completed her PhD in February, University of Karachi in 2016. It is a pride and honour that she is the first lady in Punjab who got PhD degree in Pharmacognosy. She got her B.Pharmacy and M.Phil (Pharmacognosy) degrees from University of the Punjab Lahore. She is teaching Pharm-D students since 2006 and post graduate students since 2010. She is actively involved in research and has supervised 15 M.Phil students. Until now, she has published 11 research papers in well reputed International and national Journals with impact factor. Her areas of research are the pharmacognostic studies of medicinal plants, evaluation of the medicinal plants biological activities, and the isolation and characterization of plant constituent.