Hana El-Samad is a Lebanese-American scientist who is a founding Principal Investigator at Altos Labs and a Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco.
El-Samad was an undergraduate student at the American University of Beirut, where she studied the concepts of mathematical modeling.
[12] El-Samad eventually obtained her doctorate in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara under the supervision of Mustafa Khammash.
[10] After graduating, El-Samad was appointed as a Sandler Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
In 2013 she was awarded a $1.4 million grant from the Paul Allen Family Foundation to study cellular networks.