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DHFMR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTERS
Centers commencing in 2009:
"Collaborative Research Network on Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (PID)"
Research Labs:
Raif Geha, MD (PI), James L. Gamble Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Chief, Division of Immunology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Luigi Notarangelo, MD (PI), Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Division of Immunology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Suleiman Al-Hammdi, MD, Assistant professor of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, UAE University, Consultant Pediatrician and Immunologist, Tawam and Al-Ain Hospitals, Al Ain, UAE
Basel Al-Ramadi, PhD, Professor of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, UAE University, Ail Ain, UAE
Waleed Al-Herz, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Al-Sabah NBK Pediatric Hospital, Kuwait
Abdullah Al Angari, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ghassan Dbaibo, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Necil Kutukculer, MD, Division of Immunology, Department of Pediatrics Ege University Medical School, Izmir, Turkey
“Discovery of Genetic Causes for Human Congenital Malformations”
Research Labs:
Patricia K. Donahoe, MD, Marshall K. Bartlett Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Chief of Pediatric Surgical Services Emerita Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Richard Maas, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Division of Genetics, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Christine E. Seidman, MD, Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine & Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Cardiologist, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Jonathan Seidman, PhD, Bugher Professor of Cardiovascular Genetics Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Allan M. Goldstein, MD, Pediatric Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Fadi Bitar, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Zuhair Al Hassnan, MD, Assistant Professor, Section Head, Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Majid Al-Fayyadh, MD, Chair, Electrophysiology Program
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Fowzan Al-Kuraya, MD, Head, Developmental Genetics Unit, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
George Nemer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Director, Molecular Core Facility, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Barbara R. Pober, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Pediatrician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Ahmad S. Teebi, MD, Vice Chair & Professor of Pediatric Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar
Centers commenced in 2008:
“Galactosylceramide as Potential Treatment for Juvenile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (JNCL) – Batten Disease"
Research Labs:
Rose-Mary N. Boustany, MD (co-PI), Chair of the Abu-Haidar Neuroscience Research Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Susan Cotman, PhD (co-PI), Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, and member of the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA; http://www.massgeneral.org/chgr/faculty_cotman.htm
“Identification of Genes for Human Cognition”
Research Labs:
Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD (PI), Professor of Neurology & Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and Chief, Division of Genetics, Children’s Hospital, Boston, USA; www.walshlab.org
Bassam Ali, PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular & Genetic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE
Dr. Lihadh Al-Gazali, Professor in Clinical Genetics, Deptartment of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE
Brian Meyer, PhD, Chairman, Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital Research Centre (KFSHRC) Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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DHFMR RESEARCH SEED GRANT PROGRAM
Awardees for 2009 will be announced in mid-December of 2008
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DHFMR POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
Fellowships commencing in 2009:
Maha Al-Mozaini, PhD, of the Molecular Virology Department, BMR, King Faisal Specialist Hospital Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; HMS Host lab:
Lab of Dr. Jay A. Fishman, Transplant Infectious Disease and Compromised Host Program, Infectious Disease Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Manal Alaamery, PhD, a Fellow at the Harvard Medical School Genetics Training Program, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics, Cambridge, MA. Host lab: Lab of Dr. Christopher Walsh, Division of Genetics, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Dr. Alaamery will investigate identification of genes that control the development of the human cerebral cortex.
Fellowships commenced in 2008:
Faiqa Imtiaz Ahmad, PhD, of the Arabian Diagnostics Laboratory at KFSHRC, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; HMS Host lab: Lab of Dr. Cynthia Morton, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Pathology, Boston, MA.
Hasan H. Otu, PhD, of the Yeditepe University Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, Istanbul, Turkey; HMS Host lab: Lab of Dr. Towia Libermann, BIDMC Genomics Center and DF/HCC Cancer Proteomics Core Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.
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