Sixteen students of the Biomedical Science Department of College of Health Sciences at Qatar University, have presented their graduation research projects.
“We are proud of our recent group of researchers as their findings are significant and beneficial for the healthcare sector in Qatar,” said Prof Asmaa al-Thani, dean, College of Health Sciences, and director of the Biomedical Research Centre.
Esra Moosa and Redwana Bari delivered their project, “The effect of iron depletion on chronic hepatitis C,” stating that iron studies correlated significantly with the severity of chronic hepatitis C. This retrospective study was conducted in collaboration with Hamad Medical Corporation and included 195 hepatitis C positive patients.
Missbah Baji and Nadin Younes, under the supervision of Dr Ibrahim Mustafa, presented their work, “Effect of combine iron chelation therapy on iron overloaded Zebra fish”, which concluded that treatment with iron chelators demonstrated a modest decrease of total iron which might improve shelf life of blood products and minimise oxidative damage.
Presenting their research projects supervised by Dr Hatem Zayed, “Mutational analysis of Aspartoacylase gene in a patient with Canavan disease”, Rana al-Disi and Mariam Yasser concluded that the patient has severe infantile phenotype with several mutations.
Supervised by Dr Zayed, Reem Mattar and Soumaya Harche delivered their research project on the same disease. They proposed a meaningful genotype-phenotype correlation in two patients with Canavan disease using the pathogenicity prediction of the founded mutations.
Sondos Khader and Monira Fouladi delivered their project “Molecular genotyping of Cryptosporidium species isolated from hospitalised paediatric patients in Qatar”, stating that among 570 diarrhoea paediatric patients, 83 children were infected with Cryptosporidium of different species with different probable sources of infection. This project was supervised by Dr Marwan Abu-Madi.
Amal Yahya and Roqaya Attia presented their research project, supervised by Dr Elham Sharif, titled “Association between vitamin D deficiency and endothelial dysfunction in asymptomatic subjects.” They identified a significant negative correlation between vitamin D and endothelial biomarkers such as sICAM and PAI-1.
Twenty students from the Public Health Department also presented their research graduation projects. Most of those students graduated in June 2016, in the first cohort of Public Health Bachelor’s degree graduates.
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