Dr. Shabir Hassan
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi
Dr. Shabir Hassan is an Assistant Professor of Biology. Before joining Khalifa, he was an Early Career Investigator at Harvard Medical School and Associate Bioengineer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA. His main focus of research has been devising in vitro platforms of diseases such as cancer and different tissues for drug discovery and drug delivery applications. Additionally, his interest revolves around 3D bioprinting of disease models to study genetic and rare diseases. He has an immense interest in bioimaging platforms such as mini-optical tomographic systems for studying 3D in vitro lab models.He has won many awards for his academic and research excellence. Some notable ones include Endeavour Award from the Australian Government, two consecutive awards in Early and Advanced Mobility grant categories from the Swiss National Science Foundation, Excellence in Mentorship from Harvard Medical School/BWH, Best Oral Presentation Award (SYIS) from the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, Excellence in Research Award from Yonsei University, South Korea in 2025 and the latest one, the BRICS Award International Award for Research and Education 2025.He has published more than 70 research papers in international journals of repute and serves as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Biomaterials Science. He served as Founding Associate Editor for MIT Science Policy Review (MIT, USA) in 2020. Additionally, he edits special issues for Polymers (MDPI), Frontiers in Pharmacology, etc.
