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Luis R. Saraiva
Joint Associate Professor
Phone
+974 40037639Office location
C6-111, Out Patient Clinics Building, Sidra Medicine
Luis R. Saraiva
Joint Associate Professor
Educational Qualifications
Ph.D. in Genetics(Summa Cum Laude)
Licenciatura (B.Sc.+M.Sc.) in Biology
Entity
College of Health and Life Sciences
Biography
Luis R. Saraiva completed his Licenciatura (B.Sc.+M.Sc.) in Biology at the University of Evora, Portugal. He later became a Fellow of the International Graduate School in Genetics and Functional Genomics of the University of Cologne, Germany, where he received his Ph.D. in Genetics.
After spending a brief period as a visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School (USA), funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, he became a post-doctoral scholar at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (USA). In 2013, he was awarded the EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) Fellowship and continued his postdoctoral training at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge (UK). In 2014 he won a Sanger Early Career Innovation Award.
In 2015, he moved to Sidra Medicine (Qatar), where he is a Principal Investigator and leads the Human Disease and Therapeutics Lab at Sidra Medicine (Qatar). He also holds Adjunct Faculty positions at Monell Chemical Senses Center (USA) and Hamad bin Khalifa University (Qatar).
Ph.D. in Genetics(Summa Cum Laude)
University of Cologne - Institute for Genetics (Germany)
2008
Licenciatura (B.Sc.+M.Sc.) in Biology
University of Évora & Gulbenkian Institute of Science (Portugal)
2004
Adjunct Associate Professor
College of Health and Life Sciences - Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha (Qatar)
2018 - Present
Adjunct Associate Member
Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia (USA)
2016 - Present
Principal Investigator - Associate Level
Sidra Medicine, Doha (Qatar)
2015 - Present
EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) Fellow
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and Wellcome Sanger Institute (UK)
2013 - 2015
Postdoctoral Associate
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (USA)
2008 - 2013
Visiting Scientist
Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA).
2008
- 2020, Silver Medal of Merit – Manteigas Municipality, Manteigas City Hall (Portugal)
- 2018, Chief Executive Recognition Award – Recognizing Service Excellence, Sidra Medicine, Doha (Qatar)
- 2014, Sanger Early Career Innovation Award, Wellcome Sanger Institute (WSI), Cambridge (UK)
- 2013, EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) Fellowship, EMBL-EBI & WSI (UK)
- 2013, Science Communication Fellowship – Theme Neuroscience, Pacific Science Center, Seattle (USA)
- 2008, Travel Award – XV ISOT, AChemS (USA)
- 2008, Travel Grant – Harvard Medical School, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (Germany)
- 2008, summa cum laude Ph.D. in Genetics, University of Cologne (Germany)
- 2008, Travel Award – 28th Blankenese Conference, Minerva Foundation (Germany)
- 2004, Ph.D. Fellowship – International Graduate School for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University of Cologne (Germany)