Omar O. Abudayyeh MD, PhD

Dr. Abudayyeh graduated from MIT in 2012 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering and biological engineering, where he was a Henry Ford II Scholar (top graduating engineer) and a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. Omar Abudayyeh carried out undergraduate research thesis with Sangeeta Bhatia on non-invasive cancer diagnostics using nanoparticle sensors, then conducted his Ph.D. work in Feng Zhang’s lab at the McGovern Institute and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He is one of the first members of the McGovern Institute Fellows program, which supports the transition to independent research for exceptional recent Ph.D. graduates.