Omar Oabudayyeh

I am currently as Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School where I co-run the Abudayyeh-Gootenberg Lab on molecular technology development for gene and cell therapies, aging and regeneration, and AI driven protein and cell design.

I also have affiliations an Investigator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Director of Gene Editing at Mass General Brigham’s Gene and Cell Therapy Institute, and an Assistant Professor affiliated with the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard. Prior to Harvard, I was an independent MIT McGovern Fellow at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT where I worked on next generation genome editing tools and co-directed the Abudayyeh-Gootenberg Lab. Previously, I was an MD/PhD student at Harvard Medical School/Harvard-MIT Health, Sciences, and Technology program and completed my PhD in Feng Zhang’s lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in 2018. As an MD/PhD student in Feng Zhang’s lab, I worked on the novel discovery of CRISPR enzymes and RNA biology. Our research draws from novel computational techniques, CRISPR biology, microbiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology to create therapeutic/diagnostic biotechnologies.