Jawad Youssef Fares (Arabic: جواد يوسف فارس; born 1991 in Madrid, Spain)[1] is a Lebanese physician-scientist.
[1][7] He also featured twice in the Forbes Middle East 30 Under 30,[8][2] and was selected as one of the top 10 young scientists in the world by Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.
[3][9] In 2019, Fares was elected as a Fellow of The World Academy of Medical Sciences, and in 2021 was one of the Young Physician Leaders[10] selected by the InterAcademy Partnership .
[4] As of July 2018[update], he is a postdoctoral fellow in neurological surgery at Northwestern University, where he conducts translational research on advanced brain tumors in the laboratory of Maciej Lesniak.
[4] In Lebanon, he explored injuries resulting from cluster munitions, which are bombs that release many smaller submunitions, to highlight the effects of these weapons on humanitarian and ecological levels.