Sujjawal completed his MSc degree in Molecular Biology/Biochemistry from Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan, in 2017. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at AKU and worked in the areas of clinical genomics and haematology. Sujjawal joined AKU's Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research in 2021. At the Centre, his research interest involves studying drug resistance mechanisms in haematological malignancies and applications of gene-editing tools such as CRISPR/Cas9 for treating genetic disorders.