Bashar Hamza PhD

Bashar Hamza is a second year Ph.D. student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT. He is also a member of the Manalis Laboratory at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research where he is currently working on an optofluidic platform for studying metastasis by real-time monitoring of circulating tumor cell dynamics in genetically engineered mouse models. Prior to starting at MIT in 2014, Bashar worked at MGH’s BioMEMS Resource Center (BMRC) as a research engineer where he developed microfluidic platforms for collecting quantitative clinical measurements of immune and cancer cells at the single cell level. He also served as the manager of the cleanroom facility at MGH’s BMRC.