Omar F Khan
Tiba Biotech, USA
Biography
Dr. Omar F. Khan is Chief Scientist of Tiba Biotech and the lead inventor of Tiba’s disruptive RNA delivery technology. His expertise includes nanomaterial-based nucleic acid delivery systems, vaccination nanotechnology, organic chemistry and manufacturing. He is equally skilled in biomaterial synthesis, tissue engineering, reactor design, process engineering, translational research models, and scale-up production. Omar is widely published on topics at the interface of materials and life science and has been cited over 1000 times. He holds a B.A.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto, where he was cross-appointed with the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. Prior to founding Tiba, Omar conducted his postdoctoral research in the labs of Robert Langer and Daniel Anderson at MIT. Omar leads delivery platform development and manufacturing design, drawing upon a wide breadth of scientific and leadership experience from multiple sectors, including academia, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, petrochemical and water treatment.