text: Bina Shaheen Siddiqui is a Pakistani chemist and the Director of the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry at the University of Karachi. Siddiqui graduated from the University of Karachi with an MPhil in 1978. In 1980, she graduated from the same university with a PhD in organic chemistry.
  She specialises in the chemical components of Pakistan's indigenous plants. She was elected to The World Academy of Sciences in 1989, and was elected a Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences in 1997. She is also a Fellow of the Chemical Society of Pakistan.