Asho Ali has completed her PhD at the age of 44 years from the Aga Khan University. She is Assistant Professor, Microbiology at the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She has extensive academic and research experience. Her research interests are infectious diseases; particularly tuberculosis, drug resistance in bacteria and molecular mechanisms of drug resistance. In her post-doctoral research work she has worked on molecular detection of drug resistance in Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR)-TB isolates. She has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as reviewer in many reputed journals. Asho Ali has completed her PhD at the age of 44 years from the Aga Khan University. She is Assistant Professor, Microbiology at the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She has extensive academic and research experience. Her research interests are infectious diseases; particularly tuberculosis, drug resistance in bacteria and molecular mechanisms of drug resistance. In her post-doctoral research work she has worked on molecular detection of drug resistance in Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR)-TB isolates. She has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as reviewer in many reputed journals.

Molecular Biology & infectious diseases