People Biography

Ms. Eman W. Abdelsalam is a PhD student at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in the Genomics and Precision Medicine (GPM) program, since August, 2017. Her thesis focuses on studying inherited insulin resistance in the offspring of parents with type 2 diabetes, using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) - under the supervision of Dr. Essam Abdelalim. She obtained her Master 's and Bachelor's degrees in Microbiology from Benha University in Egypt. In 2014, Eman joined Qatar University as a Research Assistant at the College of Arts and Science (CAS), where she was involved in projects studying the microbial community analyses and impact network analysis toward integrated disease management and other ecological concerns.

Ms. Eman W. Abdelsalam was also involved in a project focused on the isolation of natural products from medicinal plants used in Qatari traditional medicine and the determination of their antimicrobial, antioxidant and anticancer properties. In 2017, she joined Biomedical Research Center (BRC) at Qatar University as a research assistant, where she participated in different research projects in collaboration with Hamad medical corporation (HMC), Ministry of Environment, College of health Science and others. Her interest was to investigate the Epidemiologic and Genotypic characteristics of ESBL and carbapenems among clinical isolates from children presented with urinary tract infection (UTI) in primary health care in Qatar. Mrs. Abdelsalam received the Best Faculty & Postdoc Poster Award in medical, biomedical and health science in 2018.