Yang Liu, M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the Bio-Ontology research group under the supervision of Professor Robert Hoehndorf
successfully defended her thesis "Rare variant collapsing analysis on UK Biobank".
CBRC congratulates Sakhaa Alsaedi and Sara Althubaiti for being selected as one of the winners in the SAAI special prize winners category for their project SentiMo.
The five finalists for the 2020 Omnipreneurship Awards sustainability challenge were announced at the MENA Poultry Conference 2022 in Riyadh on Tuesday 15th of March 2022. Martin Ibarra's startup Polymeron was one of the five finalist.
Mohammed Alarawi a Research Specialist at the Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) was invited as a speaker at the Supercomputing Asia Conference 2022 (SCA2022). The title of Mohammed's talk at the seminar was "The Bio/medical data HPC landscape in Saudi Arabia."
CBRC congratulates Lara Monagel on securing sixth place in the IBDAA Competition after going through several stages among 103,000 participants.
Martin Ibarra a Phd student and founder of Polymeron was awarded second place in the Shooting Star category at the LEAP22.
Recently, Professor Sahika Inal’s article about sensor design of a DNA based cantilever was featured in Nature Biomedical Engineering Journal.
Cell processes and research reproducibility may be significantly impacted by changes in batch cultures as cells grow. More monitoring and improved procedures are needed. Research from a team of KAUST bioscientists could lead to improved standards and protocols for cell culture experiments in the laboratory.
Imagine going for an operation to replace your diseased trachea — the surgeons have a small printer in the operating theater and, using your own previously harvested cells, they print you a new windpipe and transplant it directly into your body.
Once considered the ugly duckling of environmental conservation, seagrass is emerging as a powerful tool for climate action. From drawing down carbon to filtering plastic pollution, marine scientist Carlos M. Duarte details the incredible things this oceanic hero does for our planet -- and shows ingenious ways he and his team are protecting and rebuilding marine life.
Read Professor Takashi Gojobori’s interview with Duncan Wright for the February issue of FEBS Open Bio. The interview provides the reader an insight into his research interests, research work and publications.
Congratulations to our Distinguished Professor Takashi Gojobori and Senior Bioinformatician Dr. Intikhab Alam, who were featured in an article in Al Riyadh (Arabic) newspaper.
Recently Dr. Paula Moraga gave a talk on Geospacial data science for public health surveillance. She is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the Principal Investigator of the GeoHealth research group.
The KAUST Saudi National Kidney Paired Donation Workshop, organized by Professor Michał Mańkowski with support from the KAUST CEMSE Division, brought together 12 of the Kingdom's top experts in kidney transplantation to discuss the future of this complex and highly important surgical procedure.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) signed a collaborative agreement for NHK to film the wonders of the Red Sea in high-definition, 8K technology.