Afshan Wasti, a faculty member of the Jinnah University for Women has been awarded the PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University of Karachi. She worked under the supervision of Professor Nikhat Ahmed Siddiqui of KU and her topic was 'Antipsychotic Drugs: Clinical and Genetics Studies.'
Wasti in her thesis said to have reported for the first time in Pakistan the schizophrenic patient's genotype data. Schizophrenia pertain to behavioural and intellectual disturbances.