About me
Dr. Majdi Osman is Chief Medical Officer at OpenBiome. He is an internationally recognized physician-scientist who leads OpenBiome’s translational medicine program. He is also the co-founder of YBank, a non-profit dedicated to adolescent health; a visiting assistant professor at Harvard Medical School; and a Trustee of the African Research Excellence Fund. Trained in internal medicine at University College London, Majdi has conducted research at the World Health Organization and completed his master’s in public health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on a Frank Knox Fellowship. His research on infectious disease, malnutrition, and stool banking has been published in The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Clinical Infectious Diseases. He was a co-principal investigator on the THRIVE study—the first FMT clinical trial in Africa.