Principal Investigators

Ammira Al-Shabeeb Akil, PhD
BVMs, MSc, GC-LTHE1, EMBA, PhD
Principal Investigator – Assistant Level
Precision Prevention of Diabetes, Obesity and Cancer (the DOC)

Email: aakil (@) sidra.org

Annalisa Terranegra, PhD
Principal Investigator – Assistant Level
Laboratory of Precision Nutrition - Mother and Child Health Division

Email: aterranegra (@) sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037396
  

Bernice Lo, PhD
Principal Investigator | Program Lead – Immune Dysregulation Clinical Research Program
Laboratory of Immunoregulation

Email: blo(@) sidra.org
Phone: +974 4003 7385
 

Chiara Cugno, MD
Director - Advanced Cell Therapy Core
Advanced Cell Therapy Core

Email: ccugno @ sidra.org
Phone: +974 74782930
  

Essam M. Abdelalim, PhD
Principal Investigator – Associate Level
Laboratory of Pluripotent Stem Cell Disease Modeling

Email: emohamed3@sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037382
  

Khalid A. Fakhro PhD
Chief Research Officer and Chair of the Precision Medicine Program, Sidra Medicine
Professor of Genomics, College of Health and Life Sciences, HBKU

Email: kfakhro @ sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037365
 

Luis R. Saraiva, PhD
Principal Investigator – Associate Level
A/Director – Disease Modeling and Therapeutics Department

Email: lsaraiva (@) sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037639
  

Matteo A Avella, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator – Assistant Level
Laboratory of Reproductive Biology

Email: mavella (@) sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037353
  

Muhammad Ali Hameed
P.Eng, MBA, CPA, PMP, CLSSBB
Executive Director, Research Core Facilities

Email: mhameed (@) sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037637

Sara Deola, MD, PhD
Investigator Cell and Gene Therapy Specialist
Advanced Cell Therapy Core

Email: sdeola@sidra.org or sdeola1@sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037553
 

Sara Tomei, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator – Associate Level
A/Director – Advanced Research Cores

Email: stomei@sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037681
 

Sonia Davila, PhD
Executive Director – Translational Medicine

Email: sdominguez@sidra.org
Phone: +974 4003 7369
 

Souhaila Al Khodor, MSc, PhD
Principal Investigator – Full Level
Director – Reproductive and Perinatal Health Division
Laboratory of Microbiome and Biomarkers Discovery

Email: salkhodor@sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037397
  

Wouter R.L. Hendrickx, PhD
Principal Investigator – Associate Level Tumor Biology and Immunology Laboratory

Email: whendrickx (@) sidra.org
    

Younes Mokrab, PhD
Principal Investigator - Associate level
Medical and Population Genomics Lab

Email: ymokrab (@) sidra.org