Obada is a pharmacist by education, he obtained his bachelor's degree from Philadelphia University. Later on he decided to continue his higher education and pursue an academic career, so he moved to Finland in 2015 and obtained his M.Sc degree in Drug Discovery and Development. 

Obada's master thesis aimed at characterizing novel PET tracer for imaging p-tau in Alzheimer's disease model. He obtained his master's degree in 2017 and thereafter has been a doctoral candidate at the preclinical imaging laboratory in Turku PET Center. Obada's research work is centered around  biological evaluation of novel PET tracers.