Dr. Sameera Abuaish is an Associate Professor of Cell and Systems Biology at the College of Medicine, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her research examines how early-life environments biologically embed to shape neurodevelopment, behavior, and long-term health, integrating human cohort studies with mechanistic animal models and advanced molecular approaches. Trained at leading international institutions, Dr. Abuaish completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University’s Perinatal Pathways Lab with Dr. Catherine Monk, where she investigated the impact of maternal metabolic and inflammatory states on autonomic development, epigenetic regulation, and maternal–child mental health outcomes. She earned her PhD from the University of Toronto, focusing on stress- and obesity-related developmental programming of neuroendocrine and behavioral phenotypes, and holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Ottawa. Her work is driven by a commitment to translational discovery and global collaboration at the intersection of neuroscience, epigenetics, and early-life health.