Dr. Omar P. Tabbaa
Principal Consultant / Applied Scientist / Entrepreneur
Dr. Tabbaa is the Principal Consultant and Founder of Daedalus Solutions. He is a nationally recognized expert in productization, advanced analytics, biotechnologies, and biodefense. His professional experience covers the spectrum from engineering and scientific research to portfolio management and business development. He has intimate knowledge of how to assess opportunities and risk, generate technology roadmaps and strategies, assemble cross-disciplinary teams (including external partnerships), and ensure consumer-focused delivery of high-quality solutions. He has a unique skill set for leading the translation of complex consumer needs into well-defined requirements and project plans that result in meeting a consumer's critical objectives.
Before founding Daedalus Solutions, he co-founded the Biotechnology Solutions Division at Battelle, the world's largest non-profit contract research organization, where he served as Director of Computational Biotechnologies. During his tenure as Director, he led and managed a portfolio of transition-focused R&D and commercialization programs that resulted in products such as the R&D100 award-winning ThreatSEQ Web Service, a SaaS product that is enabling the responsible distribution of DNA raw materials. Further, he has successfully led and managed the development of a next generation bioinformatic platform for IARPA that includes a novel implementation of artificial intelligence for biosample analysis.
Dr. Tabbaa holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from The Ohio State University and expanded his scientific horizons as a postdoctoral fellow in bioengineering at the University of California San Diego. His deep technical background ranges from software engineering and advanced analytics to bioengineering and biochemistry.