Hana El-Samad is a Lebanese-American scientist who is a founding Principal Investigator at Altos Labs and a Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco. Her work considers control theory and the function of complex biological systems. Her group has made contributions to systems biology, synthetic biology, and cell engineering. In November 2021, El-Samad was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of GEN Biotechnology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal that launched in February 2022 publishing original research and perspectives across all facets of the biotechnology industry by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Source: Wikipedia (en)