Omar Abudayyeh

Proof Diagnostics Co-Founder Dr. Omar Abudayyeh is a McGovern Institute Fellow at MIT, where he directs a lab exploring microbial diversity for developing next-generation cell engineering, gene editing and gene delivery technologies. These tools, including the popular gene editing system CRISPR, allow for unprecedented manipulation and profiling of cellular states with multiple applications in basic science and for programmable therapeutics and diagnostics. Dr. Abudayyeh has also applied many of these tools towards answering fundamental questions about the effect of aging on the brain and other organs with the goal of developing regenerative therapeutics for degenerative disease. Dr. Abudayyeh previously was at Harvard Medical School and MIT as a graduate student in Dr. Feng Zhang’s lab at the Broad Institute, where his research centered on novel CRISPR enzymes for genome editing, therapeutics and diagnostics. He has also founded other stealth startups in the gene therapy space.