Biography

Rana Al-Assah is a gene therapy & cancer biologist. Before joining NYUAD, she helped develop & teach science courses at ADU and was an R&D Senior Specialist at ADEC where she helped develop research initiatives for the emirate. At NYUAD, Al-Assah is in charge of the FOS 5&6 labs & has developed and teaches a course on Genetics & its implications on society. Al-Assah’s research focuses on using RNAi to knock down genes and study their phenotypic effects in cancer cells and in C. elegans.