Dr. Shabir Hassan is an Early Career Investigator (Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School) in Shin Lab. He completed his bachelor’s in Chemistry, Biology and English from University of Kashmir and his master’s in Biotechnology from University of Pune. After a year of research in molecular biology through LSZGS of UZH/ETH Zurich, he moved to a spectroscopy lab for his Dr. Sc. He used ultrafast laser spectroscopy to study protein folding, aggregation, and photothermal effects in proteins in real time. In 2016, he won the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) fellowship to carry out his research at Harvard Medical School in drug and metabolite delivery applications of novel nanoparticles targeting diseases and other medical conditions. In 2018, he won an Advanced Grant from SNSF to do his collaborative research at Harvard/MIT and University of Twente, Netherlands. His research interests include biomaterials, bioengineering, and biophotonics/imaging. He was awarded BWH and Harvard Medical School’s Award of Excellence for Mentorship in 2019.