Biomedical Sciences students at Qatar University (QU)’s College of Health Sciences presented seven different research projects recently, as part of their graduation projects, following four years of undergraduate studies.
Shaikha Khalid al-Naemi and Reem Eisa al-Heidous conducted a study focusing on the effect of cancer apoptotic bodies on the epithelial mesenchymal transition in breast cancer cells under the supervision of assistant professor of Biomedical Sciences Dr Wisam Nabeel Ibrahim.
Two other studies were supervised by associate professor of Immunology Dr Gheyath Nasrallah.
The first study evaluated the performance of a novel chemiluminescence assay for screening of hepatitis B virus infection, and was conducted by Khadija Niyaz Mohamed and Maryam Abdulla Alabdulmalek.
The second study evaluated the performance of the same technique for detection of anti-HIV and treponema pallidum antibodies.
This study was conducted by Hadiya Mohamed Khalid and Jawaher Ahmed al-Emadi.
Two studies were supervised by associate professor of Biomedical Sciences Dr Nasser Rizk.
The first study, *The effect of Sulforaphane on metabolic actions and pathways in human skeletal muscles of obese subjects, was conducted by Maryam Rahmanpoor and Shouq al-Hashemi.
The second study compared how Sulforaphane ameliorates inflammation and oxidative stress in the primary human skeletal muscles of obese and diabetic subjects.
The study was done by Fatima al-Mohannadi and Nour Farchoukh.
A project conducted by Asraa al-Baker and Noora Abusheraida, and supervised by Dr Nahla Omer, research associate at the Biomedical Research Centre in the QU, made rapid and visual detection of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus through the concurrent existence of mecA and spa genes by Closed LAMP among human clinical samples.
The last project made use of the zebrafish embryo model to assess the toxicity of amoxicillin as an antibiotic.
The study was supervised by Dr Huseyin Yalcin, associate professor at the QU’s Biomedical Research Centre, and conducted by Somaiya Abdulhakim and Amera Mohamed.
