Ghanimah Abuhaimed

Research Interests

Cancer patient mortality rates have increased worldwide. The current method for early cancer detection is expensive, time-consuming, invasive, and requires trained personnel to diagnose the cancer type and stage. Micro-electro-mechanical systems offer a robust, real-time, cost-efficient, and interoperable sensing platform for bio-sensing purposes. The project is focused on optimizing and functionalizing MEMS platforms with peptide nucleic acid (PNA), which compared with DNA has higher stability and robustness, to capture different biomarkers expressed in the blood that are associated early-stage cancer.

Selected Publications

Yuan, Ye, et al. "Self-Assembled Nematic Colloidal Motors Powered by Light." Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, 2018, pp. 5040-12.

Abuhaimed, Ghanimah, et al. “Efficient Response Amplification of Electrothermally Driven Resonators using Magnets”, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021, doi:10.1115/detc2021-71177.

Education

BA in Physics from University of Colorado Boulder, USA, 2019.

MS in Mechanical Engineering from KAUST, KSA, 2020.

Professional Profile

2016-2019: Research Assistant, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA

2022-2023: Transportation Coordinator, MAWHIBA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2021-2022: Programs Director, Maseera Foundation, Saudi Arabia

2021-2023: Chief Executive Officer, Ghirass Agriculture Company, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Awards

Taqadam Accelerator Alumni, 2021

2020 prestigious Qimam Fellowship (Qimam Fellowship Program), 2020

Outstanding Academic Research Award at KGSP convocation, 2019

KAUST Affiliations

Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE)

Research Interests Keywords

MEMS out-of-plane resonators bio-sensors