Ehab Abouheif (born 28 July 1971 in Montreal, Canada), is a Canadian biologist and Professor in the Department of Biology at McGill University.

[1] He served as founding President of the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology,[2] as well as co-founder for the McGill Centre for Islam and Science.

In 2004 Abouheif was appointed Assistant Professorship at McGill University as Canada Research Chair (tier II) in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.

[1][4][5] His research on "supersoldier ants" made a breakthrough in 2012 and revealed the importance of ancestral genetic potentials, which are stored and lay dormant in the genome for millions of years in almost all organisms.

[1][5] He served as founding President of the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology,[2] as well as co-founder for the McGill Centre for Islam and Science.