Research Faculty List

Epidemiological factors and population processes shaping infectious disease spread in human and animal populations.

Dopamine, glutamate, and cytokines interactions in the neuropsychiatric syndromes like chronic pain and schizophrenia. Translation and cultural adaptation of clinical psychiatric scales to Arabic. Metabolic syndrome in patients receiving antipsychotics in Qatar.

Clinical investigation of cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular complications of diabetes and cardiovascular genetics.

Genetic Studies of Rheumatoid arthritis, and Behcet’s disease

Rare variant association with diseases. Drug target discovery. Genome wide association studies

Neurophysiology/pharmacology and cell signalling, using molecular and electrophysiological approaches.

Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of infectious diseases in human populations, with a focus on sexually transmitted infections, and more recently coronavirus disease 2019. 

Genetics and immunology of multi-factorial diseases, including cancer.

Intracellular calcium signaling using a combination of imaging, electrophysiology and animal models. 

Effects of high glucose on endothelium tissue and cells' ability to regulate calcium and nitric oxide.

Metabolomics and complex diseases, cancer and type 2 diabetes. Clinical applications of metabolomics.

Regulation of calcium signaling pathways during cellular development and differentiation, including during oocyte maturation and hypertension. Regulation of cell cycle transitions, including the role of transition metals and a focus on meiotic arrest.

Development, application, and data analysis of genomic technologies.

Pathogenesis, assessment and treatment of diabetic and other peripheral neuropathies and central neurodegenerative disorders.

Preventing the occurrence of commonly occurring diseases such as obesity, diabetes and unintentional injuries, and identifying and promoting evidence-based new preventive and therapeutic approaches with a view to improving the overall quality of life and reduce premature mortality in the State of Qatar. 

Molecular mechanisms of DNA repair pathways and maintenance of genomic integrity; critical factors in preventing cancer and age-related disorders.

Role of endoplasmic reticulum in development of cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Determining the effectiveness of mPRs activation in combating diabetes progression and reversing established diabetes symptoms and studying the implication of mPRs signaling in various animal models and tissues, healthy and diseased.

Function of small non-coding RNAs (microRNAs) in regulating lipid/cholesterol metabolism and homeostasis.

Understanding how nutritional state and caloric intake modulate brain energy metabolism and neuronal function, using state-of-the art multiphoton imaging, electrophysiology, and oxygen sensing techniques in vitro and in vivo.

Development and validation of corneal confocal microscopy as an imaging biomarker of peripheral and central neurodegeneration.

Genetics of Mendelian diseases in Qatar, skeletal dysplasia and bone diseases in families in Qatar, genetics of male infertility, effect of shisha smoking, and use of endothelial microparticles as a biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis in early sepsis. High-throughput screening of variants linked to Mendelian disorders, pharmacogenetics and type-2 diabetes.

Identification and quantification of proteins using mass spectrometry. Post-analysis of complex mass spectrometry data.

Reimagining medicine through cutting-edge AI research and innovation

Medical risk factors for perinatal depression. Public policy issues related to population health.

Bioinformatics, metabolomics, genome-wide association studies, gene-environment interaction.

Epidemiology and molecular pathology of infectious diseases using genomic and proteomics tools; in particular, the geographic distribution of HPV infection in Arab countries, and the epidemiological impact of HPV vaccines; risk associated with food-borne pathogens and its potential relation to inflammatory bowel diseases in Qatar; malaria parasite stage-specific immune responses and population dynamics during seasonal and year-round transmission in geographically confined endemic regions.

Application of Artificial Intelligence to solve problems in medicine, with particular focus on applying deep learning to imaging and graphs

Glucose toxicity, diabetes and microvascular disease.

Regulation of Ca²+ signaling during the cell cycle. The molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying primary immune deficiencies.

Utilizing multi-omics approaches to dissect the intricacies of genomic, proteomic, and metabolomics layers for a comprehensive understanding of biological systems and disease progression.