Naveed aziz, PHD

Dr. Naveed Aziz serves as Chief Executive Officer of CGEn, Canada’s national platform for genome sequencing & analysis, and a staff scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Naveed has a keen interest in the role of genomic in providing solutions to pressing global challenges. He is passionate about the development of powerful and efficient solutions for big data generation, storage and deposition to “open-science” databases, enabling high-speed data exchange at national and international scale. Naveed servers on numerous national & international scientific advisory committees. 

On a Jamaat level, by the Grace of Allah, Naveed has served as a local amila member in various capacities in Pakistan, UK and currently as a member of Ottawa West local amila in Canada.

Naveed holds a PhD in Gene Targeting from University of Dundee, UK, in addition to an MPhil in Biotechnology and an Executive MBA from Bradford School of Management, UK. His previous roles include serving as the Director of Technology programs at Genome Canada, Head of Genomics at University of York, UK and as Research Fellow at the Noble Research Institute, USA. In 2018, Naveed was named as one of Canada’s emerging executive leaders by adMare and Pfizer.