Adah Almutairi (Arabic: غادة المطيري‎) is a scholar, inventor, and entrepreneur. Almutairi is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry; faculty in the departments of Bioengineering and NanoEngineering; and Director of the Center for Excellence in Nanomedicine and Engineering in the Institute of Engineering in Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her work focuses on nanomedicine, nanotechnology, chemistry and polymer science. Almutairi is a 2016 Kavli Fellow and has received numerous honors and awards such as the NIH director's new innovator award in 2009 for her work on "Chemically Amplified Response Strategies for Medical Sciences". Almutairi’s ground breaking work was highlighted by U.S. NIH director Francis Collins to Congress as one of the 4 most important America