Taking place at the HBKU Student Center, the courses have been held in collaboration with autism consultants from Cambridge, UK, and cover key approaches to diagnosing autism through the use of interviews, coding, and observation. In collaboration with local stakeholders, QBRI selected twelve local researchers, autism specialists, and medical practitioners to take part in this course, including eight from Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), seven from the Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, and three representing QBRI. 

The research was recently featured in the prestigious journal “Diabetes” and concluded that individuals with low levels of a specific salivary protein, alpha-amylase, which is produced by the salivary glands and is released in saliva, may cause the body’s energy production sources to switch from sugars to fatty acids.   

Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), one of Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) three specialized national research institutes, recently organized a series of awareness raising campaigns that focused on the brain, breast cancer research, and diabetes.

The Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) and the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, two of Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU’s) specialized national research institutes, are playing an active role in supporting Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development’s Qatar National Day 2015 celebrations at Darb Al Saai. Aiming to encourage Qatar’s youth to take an interest in the sciences, interactive exhibitions and workshops designed by the research institutes are attracting large crowds of young people.

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), a member of Qatar Foundation (QF) for Education, Science and Community Development, invites undergraduate students to apply to its summer internship programs, starting May 8th and running until June 30th. Offered at Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), two of HBKU’s prestigious research institutes, the summer internships were developed to help build national research capacity and to attract students to the sciences.