The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) is pleased to invite you to attend the first of a series of sessions that will showcase HBKU’s on-going thematic research. This event will showcase four active projects awarded under Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) Thematic Research Grant Program. Funded by HBKU’s OVPR, the program is designed to support HBKU researchers to tackle pressing scientific challenges in alignment with the university’s priority research areas.
Using conventional methods, it would be necessary to screen every single human protein, splice variant, neoantigen or microbial antigen to discover the total repertoire of autoantigens within a
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually affects older people. The disease affects a part of the brain that controls movement called the substantia nigra. The dead cells in this part no longer produce an important chemical called dopamine. Symptoms progress slowly over the years and major motor problems begin to appear in the late stage of the disease when patients lose more than 80% of these cells. The current therapy is the treatment of symptoms which allows good control of the motor signs, but until now there is no specific treatment for PD.