Sindi

On the Road to Science Achievement: 'Wherever You Need to Go to Pursue Your Dream - Go'

User Image kcollins | April 29, 2011
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…