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Dr. Nady El Hajj
Associate Professor Associate Professor
Dr. Nady El Hajj
Associate Professor Associate Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Biology
MSc in Biology
Entity
College of Health and Life Sciences
College of Science and Engineering
Divison
Information & Computing Technology
Biography
Dr. Nady El Hajj is an Associate Professor at the College of Health and Life Science at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He joined Hamad Bin Khalifa University in 2019 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. El Hajj graduated in biology from the American University of Beirut in 2007 and received his PhD from the Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Würzburg in 2011. His dissertation work investigated the epigenetic risks of assisted reproductive technologies and infertility on germ cells and embryos. During his postdoctoral training at the lab of Thomas Haaf, he focused on identifying whether maternal gestational diabetes during pregnancy causes epigenetic alterations in the developing fetus.
In addition, he was involved in studying paternal age effects on germ cells and the offspring of older fathers from an epigenetic perspective. In 2017, he joined Baylor College of Medicine on a fellowship supported by the German research foundation where he performed bioinformatics analysis on whole genome bisulfite sequencing data to understand interindividual DNA methylation variation in humans. His research is published in more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and has been cited more than 3700 times.
PhD in Biology
University of Würzburg, Germany
2011
MSc in Biology
American University of Beirut, Lebanon
2007
BSc in Biology
American University of Beirut, Lebanon
2005
- Epigenetics
- Aging
- Precision Medicine
- Diabetes
Associate Professor
College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2024 – Present
Assistant Professor
College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2019 - 2024
Research Associate
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, United States
2017 - 2018
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Institute of Human Genetics, University of Würzburg, Germany
2011 - 2017
Srour, L., & El Hajj, N. (2024). The ribosome's comeback: New role in body weight regulation. Trends in Genetics. Advance online publication.
Qannan, A., Bejaoui, Y., Izadi, M., Yousri, N. A., Razzaq, A., Christiansen, C., Martin, G. M., Bell, J. T., Horvath, S., Oshima, J., Megarbane, A., Ericsson, J., Pourkarimi, E., & El Hajj, N. (2023). Accelerated epigenetic aging and DNA methylation alterations in Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy. Human Molecular Genetics, 32(11), 1826–1835.
Almenar-Queralt, A., Merkurjev, D., Kim, H. S., Navarro, M., Ma, Q., Chaves, R. S., Allegue, C., Driscoll, S. P., Chen, A. G., Kohlnhofer, B., Fong, L. K., Woodruff, G., Mackintosh, C., Bohaciakova, D., Hruska-Plochan, M., Tadokoro, T., Young, J. E., El Hajj, N., Dittrich, M., Marsala, M., Goldstein, L. S. B., & Garcia-Bassets, I. (2019). Chromatin establishes an immature version of neuronal protocadherin selection during the naive-to-primed conversion of pluripotent stem cells. Nature Genetics, 51(12), 1691–1701.
2012; Young Investigator Award for Outstanding Science; European Society of Human Genetics; Nürnberg/Germany