Co-advised by Dr. Peter Tessier and Dr. Colin Greineder.
EDUCATION
PhD Student, Chemical Engineering, 2021-present
MS, Chemical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2021
BSE, Chemical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2020
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Protein engineering for the targeted delivery of therapeutics
- Antibody engineering
- Targeted drug delivery
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- Autoimmune diseases
- Gut microbiome
PROJECT
Engineering targeted IL-2 mutein fusion proteins for the treatment of IBD.
HOBBIES
Camping, hiking, fishing, playing board games, learning new languages.
PUBLICATIONS
- Kim, A.*; Xie, F.*; Abed, O.A.; Moon, J.J.§. Vaccines for immune tolerance against autoimmune disease. ADDR 2023, 203. Link PDF
- Abed, O.A.*; Attlassy, Y.*; Xu, J.; Han, K.; Moon, J.J. Emerging Nanotechnologies and Microbiome Engineering for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Mol Pharm 2022. Link PDF
- Thompson, B.*; Machas, M.*; Abed, O.; Nielsen, D.R. Applying a ‘Metabolic Funnel’ for Phenol Production in Escherichia coli. Fermentation 2021, 7 (4), 216.
- Machas, M.; Kurgan, G.; Abed, O.A.; Shapiro, A.; Wang, X.; Nielsen, D.R. Characterizing Escherichia coli’s Transcriptional Response to Different Styrene Exposure Modes Reveals Novel Toxicity and Tolerance Insights. J of Ind Microbiol and Biotechnol 2021, 48 (1-2).