Since leaving her native Saudi Arabia to pursue her dream in biotechnology, Hayat Sindi, a nanotechnology researcher and bio tech entrepreneur, has already reached some prodigious milestones in her young career, such as:
--Overcoming formidable cultural and personal obstacles to become the first woman from the Gulf Region to earn a Ph.D. in biotechnology.
--Becoming the first Arab woman in 2009 to win a fellowship in the respected American
innovation network PopTech.
-- Being chosen under the White House initiative to be featured with other innovators around the country in "Connect a Million…
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