Shahid Mahmood Baig

Shahid Mahmood Baig is a Pakistani geneticist whose research concerns human molecular genetics and the identification of disease-causing genes in the Pakistani population. He is vice-chancellor of the Islamabad University of Health Sciences and Emerging Technologies (IUHT). He chaired the Pakistan Science Foundation from December 2020 to December 2023 and later became dean of life sciences at the Health Services Academy. In June 2026, he presented the draft of Pakistan's proposed National Genomic Policy at a federal stakeholder consultation. Baig is a fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the Sitara-i-Imtiaz and Hilal-i-Imtiaz.

Education Baig received an FSc in biology in 1978 and a BSc in biology in 1981 from Gordon College in Rawalpindi. He then studied at Quaid-i-Azam University, receiving an MSc in biology in 1984, an MPhil in reproductive physiology in 1986 and a PhD in human molecular genetics in 1997. His doctoral research was conducted at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. He undertook postdoctoral research in molecular biology and genetics at King Saud University in 2000 and in oncogenomics at Duke University in 2012. The following month, he was appointed chairman of the Pakistan Science Foundation; he completed his term on 27 December 2023. The Islamabad University of Health Sciences and Emerging Technologies subsequently appointed him as its vice-chancellor.

Baig's research has focused on human genetics and the identification of genes associated with inherited disorders.

Baig was elected a fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences in 2022 and was formally inducted on 2 December 2023. Hilal-i-Imtiaz, announced in 2023 and conferred in 2024