Omar Abudayyeh, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Brigham and Women's Hospital

 

2025 Moore Inventor Fellow

Omar Abudayyeh, Ph.D.
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Research Description

Omar Abudayyeh is creating programmable technologies for biological systems using molecular and protein engineering and artificial intelligence. His innovative technology for correcting entire genes at the RNA level, can enable treatment of any genetic disease including central nervous system and neurodegenerative disorders regardless of the specific mutation.

 
 

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Education

Ph.D., Medical Engineering and Medical Physics program (MEMP), Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S., Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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