Dr Mazin Zamzami is Assistant Professor at the Biochemistry Department in the Faculty of Science at King Abdulaziz University. He was granted his PhD in Clinical Biochemistry from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia in 2012, and he was also granted during the same year a Graduate Certificate of Molecular Biology from UQ.

He joined the KAU family in 2002 as a Lecturer in Biochemistry at the Faculty of Health Sciences. Previously, from around 1997, Dr Zamzami directed the Serology Department as well as worked as a senior laboratory technician in the Clinical Biochemistry Department at Al-Thaguer Hospital, Jeddah, for approximately five years. 

Dr Zamzami has a clinical research interest in the molecular basis of disease, particularly nucleotide metabolic diseases, and pharmacogenetics. He also involved in international collaborative projects with Australia, the USA and UK. Recently he began establishing the first clinical research group for nucleotide metabolic diseases and diagnostics in Saudi Arabia, at the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah.

He has published articles on non-canonical nucleotides effects and mitochondrial microarrays, as well as presenting at international and national scientific conferences, and he has continued his contribution to research in metabolic diseases.  His research is involved with the Mater Hospital, and collaboration with the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.