Niamh O’Hara

Dr. O'Hara is an evolutionary biologist and health tech entrepreneur developing and commercializing new technology to fight infectious diseases. She has conducted large-scale genomics work characterizing the microbiome of clinical environments, urine, and SARS-CoV-2 samples. She is a research assistant professor at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, completed a postdoc in health tech business at Cornell Tech (2018), a postdoc at Fordham University in Bioinformatics (2015), a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Stony Brook University (2014), and a bachelor’s at NYU (2005). Dr. O'Hara has published peer-reviewed articles in top ranked journals such as Nature Communications, and Cell. Her work has been featured at the United Nations, and NextMed Health, as well as in GenomeWeb, Popular Science, the Huffington Post, and WIRED. She was selected as a TedMed Hive Innovator for 2020.