Dr. Bassam El-Fahmawi: (CEO  & Chief Technical Officer): Dr. El-Fahmawi has launched Mawi DNA Technologies late 2014. Also, he is the inventor of Mawi’s biological sample collection and room temperature stabilization core technologies, iSWAB for swab-based collection and HemaSure, direct draw tube for whole blood multiomics analysis. Dr. El-Fahmawi has more than 25 years experience in the genomics sample preparation market. Early on in his career Dr. El-Fahmawi managed the commercialization nucleic acid purification technology at Beckman Coulter Genomics (formerly Agencourt) and then he lead the commercialization of Corning Nucleic acid purification technology. During his career Bassam has published several patents for simplifying nucleic acid purification technology and sample collection. Dr. El-Fahmawi earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Alberta.