Dr. Muhammed Murtaza received his medical degree from Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan before moving to Trinity College and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute to get a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He started his research career investigating germline determinants of disease predisposition in South Asians before moving to Cambridge to work with Dr. Nitzan Rosenfeld on cell-free DNA analysis. He moved to TGen from Cambridge in 2014 and is co-appointed as Research Faculty at Mayo Clinic Arizona.