Seven Questions with... Mariam Elgabry

This week we meet Mariam Elgabry, a final-year PhD researcher who has led an award winning technology for early detection systems in drug testing at AstraZeneca and worked as a Sergeant at the London Metropolitan Police. What are you studying, why are you interested in this subject and what do you plan to do in the future?. I am a final-year PhD researcher with a joint appointment in the Department of Security and Crime Science and the Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering (ACBE). I hold an EPSRC studentship to research Biocrime, the Internet-of-Medical-Things and Cyber-biosecurity at the Dawes Centre for Future Crime. In an increasingly health-centred global economy, Cyber-biosecurity is an emerging field that has today proven more necessary than ever. Health data is being sold in the black market at 20 times more than other types of data, that unlike your credit card credentials, cannot be re-generated. Cloud laboratories and connected medical devices or Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) transform healthcare and an "immunity passport" will certify your health, determine your identity and freedom of movement.