Abay Sisay is a faculty member and researcher at Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences. He received an MSc in Clinical Laboratory Sciences from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, in 2014. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. in applied genetics at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, with a research dissertation titled Molecular Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 and its Diagnostic Evaluation in Ethiopia. His research interests include pathogen genomics, public health epidemiology, Molecular epidemiology, molecular diagnostic evaluation, quality improvement, and laboratory quality management.