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Umm-Kulthum Ismail Umlai
Post-doctoral Researcher
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Genomics and Precision Medicine
Master in Biomedical Research
Entity
College of Health and Life Sciences
Biography
Umm-Kulthum is an early career researcher with experience in genomics, metagenomics, biomedical research and metabolomics. She spent most of her life in Qatar where she also graduated with research honours from Carnegie Mellon University located at the prestigious Education City. Her postgraduate experience involved several biomedical research projects including metabolomics of Alzheimer’s disease and liver diseases at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in the UK. Her PhD research with Hamad Bin Khalifa University was a combination of clinical and genomics research, looking into the genetics underlying rare growth disorders in paediatric patients recruited from a hospital in Qatar. Currently, Umm-Kulthum is working as a post-doctoral researcher with Professor Omar Albagha where she is involved in numerous Genome-Wide Association Studies projects which utilize the Qatar Genome Programme data to investigate various traits.
PhD in Genomics and Precision Medicine
Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Doha, Qatar)
2022
Master in Biomedical Research
Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine (London, England)
2017
Bachelor in Biological Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University (Doha, Qatar)
2016
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Doha, Qatar)
2022 - Present
Teaching Assistant Pharmacogenomics Course
Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Doha, Qatar)
2021 - 2021
Research Assistant
Queen Mary University of London, (London, England)
2016 - 2017
Research Student
Biological Sciences Department, Carnegie Mellon University (Doha, Qatar)
2014 - 2016
Summer Research Fellow
Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA)
2013
- Hamad Bin Khalifa University sponsored PhD scholarship from Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Doha, Qatar), 2018 - 2022.
- Research Honors from Research Honors, 2016.
- Meeting of the Minds- 3rd place annual research showcase from Carnegie Mellon University (Doha, Qatar), 2015.
- Annual Research Award- 1st place student poster (Energy and Environment category) from Annual Research Conference Qatar Foundation, 2014.