Faculty Profiles
Reem Khojah
Assistant Teaching Professor, Bioengineering
Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Drug discovery; drug resistance; micro-robots; mini organs
Khojah develops mini-organs featuring novel micro-robotic systems that enable artificial intelligence to be part of the creative process in drug discovery pipelines. Her research aims to understand how the tumor micro-environment orchestrates drug-resistance pathways, which can lead to new insights in cancer prognosis and drug response.
Capsule Bio:
Khojah joined the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering as an Assistant Teaching Professor in 2022. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Irvine starting in 2021, and a postdoctoral research at UC Santa Cruz beginning in 2019. Khojah earned a PhD in bioengineering from UCLA, and a master's degree in chemical and biological engineering from King Abdullah University for Science and Technology.
