Congratulations to alumna Shahad Alsairi, PhD ’18 (Bioscience), MS ’14 (Bioscience), honored by the MIT Technology Review as one of 10 innovators from the MENA region for 2020 “whose superb technical work promises to change the world”. A postdoctoral research fellow at MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, she was recently a panelist on an Alumni Career Conversation talking about her career in academia.

Since 1999, the MIT Technology Review has honored young innovators whose inventions and research they find most exciting. Today, that collection is Innovators Under 35, a list of technologists and scientists, spanning biomedicine, computing, communications, energy, materials, software, transportation, web and internet, and more.

The annual list of 10 is compiled by a panel of judges – experts in different fields – who assess the candidates. Criteria ensures identification of a mix of individuals representing “current trends in technology and the diversity of innovation around the globe”. In particular, they seek innovators who introduce new and better solutions that change the way people live or work.

Other KAUST alumni to be recognized include Babar Khan, PhD ’18, in 2019.

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