The Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (CGSB) at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has been a nexus for cutting-edge life science research in the United Arab Emirates for over a decade. With world-class facilities and resources at its disposal, the Center’s mission is to promote innovative advances in genomics and systems biology.

As part of its responsibilities at NYUAD, the Center fosters and promotes the university’s research and training missions, by allowing undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral scientists to engage in cross-disciplinary research. It further assists researchers by providing them with advanced instrumentation and computational support to facilitate high-throughput data collection, visualization, and analysis. The NYUAD CGSB operates in partnership with its sister center, NYU Biology’s CGSB in New York, as part of an open organizational framework that drives forward transformative collaborative work across the globe, supported by joint technology and service platforms.

The Center is currently led by Director Stéphane Boissinot, NYUAD Professor of Biology and Global Network Professor of Biology, and Co-Directors Claude Desplan, Silver Professor of Biology and Neural Science, NYU ; Kristin Gunsalus, Professor of Biology, NYU, and Faculty Director of Bioinformatics, NYUAD; and Enas Qudeimat, Head of CGSB Administration and Outreach.

From 2012 to 2017, the Center was led by Managing Director Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani, alongside Co-Directors Michael Purugganan and Claude Desplan. Between 2017 and 2022, Claude Desplan and Kristin Gunsalus served as Co-Directors, and Enas Qudeimat as Associate Director.

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