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
Bernice Lo, PhD
Principal Investigator
Laboratory of Immunoregulation
Chiara Cugno, MD
Director - Advanced Cell Therapy Core
Advanced Cell Therapy Core
Essam M. Abdelalim, PhD
Principal Investigator – Associate Level
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
Luis R. Saraiva, PhD
Principal Investigator – Associate Level
A/Director – Disease Modeling and Therapeutics Department
Matteo A Avella, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator – Assistant Level
Laboratory of Reproductive Biology
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 | Director
Sonia Davila, PhD
Executive Director – Translational Medicine
Souhaila Al Khodor, MSc, PhD
Principal Investigator – Associate Level
Director – Reproductive and Perinatal Health Division
Laboratory of Microbiome and Biomarkers Discovery
Wouter R.L. Hendrickx, PhD
Principal Investigator – Assistant Level
Tumor Biology and Immunology Laboratory
Younes Mokrab, PhD
Principal Investigator - Associate level
Medical and Population Genomics Lab
Email: ymokrab (@) sidra.org