SmartHealth
Opening Ceremony
09:00 AM

Opening ceremony with host Prof. Imed Gallouzi, Associate Director, KAUST Smart-Health Initiative.

Dr. Tony F. Chan

KAUST President

Dr. Najah Ashry

VP & Senior Associate to the President, Strategic National Advancement (SNA), KAUST

Dr. Lawrence Carin

KAUST Provost

Iain Young

Dean Biological and Environmental Science & Engineering (BESE), KAUST

Francis Waldvogel

Chair, KAUST Smart-Health Initiative Advisory Committee

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09:50 AM
Pierre Magistretti

Vice President for Research | Director, KAUST Smart-Health Initiative

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10:20 AM
10:25 AM
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10:40 AM
Dr. Khaled Al-Kattan

VP Finance & Administration, Dean, College of Medicine, AlFaisal University

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10:50 AM
Eng. Nizar Y. Al-Hariri

Advisor to Minister of Industry & Minerals

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11:00 AM
Elie Haddad

Senior Advisor, Royal Commission for Riyadh City

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11:10 AM
Batoul M.Y. AlBaz

Ph.D., Vice President Health sector, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)

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11:20 AM
Edward J. Cupler

Executive Director at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC)

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12:00 PM
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02:00 PM
Dr. Sara F. Althari

Biotech & Pharma Managing Director & Minister's Advisor, Ministry of Investment (MISA)

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02:30 PM
Jürgen Nerlich

Head of Business Performance & Strategy Life Science Services, Merck

Youssef Gaabouri

Associate Director, Head of Sales Middle East & Africa in Merck BioProcess division

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02:45 PM
Jürgen Schmidhuber

Director, KAUST AI Initiative

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03:00 PM
Rania Ashraf

Director Government affairs and policy, Janssen GCC

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03:15 PM
Robert Morfino

Director Of Business Development, Ginkgo Bioworks

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03:30 PM
Dr. Salleh N. Ehaideb

Head of the National Saudi Biobank​ | Director of Animal Research Facility at KAIMRC​ | Associate Research Scientist​ | Experimental Medicine Department (EMD)​

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03:45 PM
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04:00 PM
Xin Gao

Professor, Computer Science; Interim Director, Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC); Deputy Director, Smart Health Initiative (SHI); Lead, Structural and Functional Bioinformatics (SFB) Group, KAUST

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04:15 PM
Sahika Inal

Associate Professor, Bioengineering, KAUST

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04:30 PM
Stefan Arold

Professor, bioscience | Professor, Bioscience Associate Dean, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, KAUST

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04:45 PM
Magdy Mahfouz

Professor, Bioengineering, KAUST

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Introduction
09:00 AM
Imed Gallouzi

Associate Director, KAUST Smart-Health Initiative

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09:05 AM
Ian Campbell

Executive Director, Special Projects, KAUST

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09:15 AM
Prof. Fowzan Sami Alkuraya

Chairman Department of Translational Genomics, KFSHRC

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09:30 AM
Bruno Reversade

Professor, Bioscience

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09:45 AM
Samir Hamdan

Professor, Bioscience - Associate Vice President for Research Acting Dean, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), KAUST

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10:00 AM
Prof. Takashi Gojobori

Distinguished Professor, Bioscience – Acting Director, Computational Bioscience Research Center

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10:15 AM
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10:30 AM
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10:45 AM
Mo Li

Associate Professor of Bioscience | Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regeneration Lab

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11:00 AM
Imed Gallouzi

Associate Director, KAUST Smart-Health Initiative

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11:15 AM
Christian Froekjaer Jensen

Assistant Professor, Bioscience, KAUST

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11:30 AM
Nazek El-Atab

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST

Ahmed Eltawil

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST

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11:45 AM
Pierre Magistretti

Vice President for Research | Director, KAUST Smart-Health Initiative

Imed Gallouzi

Associate Director, KAUST Smart-Health Initiative

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