Abbas El Sahili, Ph.D

Abbas El Sahili is the Chief Executive Officer of Singzyme, a biotechnology company that provides enzymatic conjugation using Peptide Asparaginyl Ligases. He has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Structural Biology and has published 30 research papers. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Abbas El Sahili’s research career has been focused on biochemistry and structural biology. He has worked on projects such as the purification of Dengue and Zika Virus Non-structural Protein 5 for Crystallization and Screening of Antivirals. He pursued his research work on Peptide Asparaginyl Ligases using biochemistry techniques, protein engineering and X-ray crystallography to uncover the detailed molecular mechanism of these enzymes and use them to produce novel biologics.