Ahmed Zayed, PhD
Research Scientist, The Ohio State University
Leadership Team, OSU EMERGE Biology Integration Institute

Ahmed Zayed's research spans medical, pharmaceutical, and environmental microbiology, and aims at finding solutions to global health and environmental problems. Employing cutting-edge bioinformatic and high-throughput tools, his research led to the discovery of hundreds of thousands of DNA/RNA viruses and thousands of microbes in human/animal bodies, the global ocean, and carbon-rich soils.