Biography:

Ms. Alaa studied Biotechnology and Molecular Biosciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, supervised by Dr. Maureen Ferran, and graduated with her BS in 2020. She then joined the Biomedical Genetics PhD program at the University of Rochester (UR) School of Medicine and Dentistry, and received her MS degree from the UR in 2022. Currently, she continues her graduate research as a fifth year PhD student supervised by Dr. Stephen Dewhurst. She has published one original research article in Current Protocols in Microbiology and a few others are being finalized for submission for publication.