[1] Haseena Khan is also known for her contribution to jute genome decoding under Maqsudul Alam's lead.

[2] Begum Haseena was born in Gendaria, Old Dhaka to a Bengali Muslim family of Dhakaiya heritage.

Her father, Muhammad Abdul Khaleq, was a government employee whilst her mother, Begum Khodeza Khatun, was a housewife.

Two years after birth, the family moved to transferred to Kolkata, West Bengal as her father was serving as an Ambassador there.

[3] Khan passed her HSC from Holy Cross College in 1974 and enrolled in the Department of Biochemistry at Dhaka University.