Niamh O'Hara has developed cutting edge next-gen sequencing-based technology for hospitals and spent five years commercializing this technology, through co-founding and leading Biotia. She has conducted unprecedented, large-scale metagenomics studies including characterizing the microbiome of ambulances across the US, hospital environments internationally, and clinical studies on patient samples. She completed a postdoc in healthtech business at Cornell Tech, a postdoc at Fordham University in Bioinformatics, a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Stony Brook University, and a BA at NYU. Dr. O'Hara has published peer-reviewed articles in the fields of metagenomics, genomics, evolutionary biology and ecology in top ranked journals such as Molecular Ecology, Microbiome, and Evolution. Her work has been featured in GenomeWeb, Popular Science, the Huffington Post, and WIRED.