Omar Abed at a forest

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 (brain, gut)
  • Autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases
  • Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
  • Gut microbiome

PROJECT

Engineering targeted IL-2 mutein fusion proteins for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.

HOBBIES

Camping, hiking, fishing, playing board games, learning new languages.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Sun, X.; Zhou, X.; Shi, X.; Abed, O.A.; An, X.; Lei, Y.L.; Moon, J.J. Strategies for the Development of Metalloimmunotherapies. Nat. Biomed. Eng. 2024. Link PDF
  2. Kim, A.*; Xie, F.*; Abed, O.A.; Moon, J.J. Vaccines for Immune Tolerance against Autoimmune Disease. Adv. Drug Delivery Rev. 2023, 203, 115140. Link PDF
  3. 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. Pharmaceutics 2022. Link PDF
  4. Thompson, B.*; Machas, M.*; Abed, O.; Nielsen, D.R. Applying a ‘Metabolic Funnel’ for Phenol Production in Escherichia coli. Fermentation 2021, 7 (4), 216.
  5. 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. Ind. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 2021, 48 (1-2).