Dr. Niamh O'Hara, PhD
Clinical metagenomics • Microbiome characterization • Clinical microbiology • Infectious disease diagnostics • Genomics • SARS-CoV-2 sequencing • Health tech entrepreneurship
Dr. Niamh O'Hara is the Co-Founder and CEO of Biotia, where she leads strategy and commercialization of AI-powered metagenomic infectious disease diagnostics.
Dr. Niamh O'Hara, PhD
Dr. Niamh O'Hara is the Co-Founder and CEO of Biotia, where she leads strategy and commercialization of AI-powered metagenomic infectious disease diagnostics.
Clinical metagenomics • Microbiome characterization • Clinical microbiology • Infectious disease diagnostics • Genomics • SARS-CoV-2 sequencing • Health tech entrepreneurship
About Dr. Niamh O'Hara
Dr. Niamh O'Hara is an evolutionary biologist and health tech entrepreneur developing diagnostic technology to advance the understanding and treatment of infectious diseases, with a particular focus on overlooked, complex, and chronic infections.
She has led large-scale genomics research, development, and commercialization characterizing the microbiome of clinical environments, urine, vaginal, and SARS-CoV-2 samples. Dr. O'Hara is also a Research Assistant Professor at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University.
Her academic training includes a postdoctoral fellowship in health tech business at Cornell Tech (2018), a postdoctoral fellowship in Bioinformatics at Fordham University (2015), a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Stony Brook University (2014), and a BA from New York University (2005).
Dr. O'Hara has published peer-reviewed research in journals including Nature Communications and Cell and holds three patents in the space. Her work has been featured at the United Nations and NextMed Health, and covered by GenomeWeb, Popular Science, the Huffington Post, and WIRED. She was selected as a TEDMED Hive Innovator in 2020.
Education
- PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Stony Brook University, 2014
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Tech Business, Cornell Tech, 2018
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioinformatics, Fordham University, 2015
- BA, New York University, 2005
Affiliations
- SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University (Research Assistant Professor)
- Cornell Tech (former postdoc, Runway advisor)
- Fordham University (former postdoc)
Publications and Blogs from Dr. Niamh O'Hara
- TEDMED Hive Innovator (2020)
- Featured in GenomeWeb, Popular Science, WIRED, and the Huffington Post
- Presented at the United Nations and NextMed Health