Rasha obtained her Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) in 2001 from the University of Jordan. During her undergraduate years, she developed a keen interest in Oral Pathology, particularly in the pathology of malignant and premalignant oral lesions. She therefore enrolled on a PhD in Oral Pathology at the University of Birmingham which looked at the quantification of oral cancer and pre-cancer growth patterns. Rasha’s doctoral research applied digital imaging and innovative mathematical descriptors of morphology and complexity to characterise oral tissues at the cell and tissue levels. She successfully completed her PhD in 2005, and worked as a Research fellow in the same institute.
In 2006, Rasha joined the academic staff at the University of Jordan as an Assistant Professor in Oral Pathology. She assumed several administrative responsibilities, was involved in teaching multiple modules, and pursued her research in Oral Pathology.
Dr Abu-Eid joined the Academic staff of the newly established Dental School at the University of Aberdeen in 2009 and contributed to the development of the curriculum. During her time in Aberdeen, she obtained a PGCert in Higher Education Teaching and Learning in 2011 and became a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
During the same year, Rasha was successful in securing a prestigious research fellowship grant from the King Hussein Institute for Biotechnology and Cancer to conduct research in cancer immunology in USA. The fellowship was split between the National Cancer Institute/ National Institutes of Health and Georgia Regents University (Currently Augusta University), where she later became an Assistant Research Scientist. The focus of the research group was T cell Biology and the modulation of the immune system in the context of cancer immunotherapy.
In October 2016, Dr Abu-Eid re-joined the University of Aberdeen Dental School as a Senior Lecturer in Oral Sciences. She expanded her cancer research portfolio to include multiple state of the art technologies to identify markers of disease progression and targets for immunotherapy. She assumed multiple roles including being the research lead, the postgraduate research coordinator at the Dental Institute and an elected member of the University Senate. Rasha was involved in teaching a number of undergraduate and postgraduate modules and successfully supervised many postgraduate research students.
Rasha re-joined the University of Birmingham in December 2024 as an Associate Professor in Oral Biology. She continues to expand her research portfolio building on existing and forging new collaboration networks.