Smart-Health News
01 August, 2023
Less hazardous and more sensitive and eco-friendly scintillating compounds could greatly improve X-ray imaging technologies.
18 July, 2023
KAUST researchers work with Saudi hospitals to test novel approaches for early pathogen identification
18 July, 2023
Leena Ali Ibrahim’s research is revealing intricate brain connections between the senses that could have implications for finding treatments for autism and schizophrenia.
09 July, 2023
With his team, Prof. Łukasz Jaremko identified a dynamic behavior of certain proteins that make them potentially useful for targeted cancer therapy.
09 July, 2023
She was recognized for her groundbreaking work in developing data technology for disease surveillance, which has the ability to detect outbreaks of infectious diseases almost in real time.
09 July, 2023
Professor Peiying Hong has been honored as one of the four finalists for the prestigious 2023 Letten Prize Award.
In the media
22 March, 2023
Ramadan Kareem! May this Ramadan bring you happiness, joy and good health.
08 March, 2023
A protein complex that is crucial for messenger RNA stability during muscle-fiber formation has been identified by postdoc Brenda Sánchez and Prof. Imed Gallouzi.
13 February, 2023
KAUST postdoc Amal Bajaffer collaborated with KAUST professors Pierre Magistretti and Takashi Gojobori to study the role of lactate in the evolution of memory formation in humans.
30 January, 2023
A new disease model that can account for contact patterns between age groups shows how infectious diseases evolve in space and time and how to predict future case numbers across a region.
26 January, 2023
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, recently welcomed 83 Members as new Fellows of the Society. Qiaoqiang Gan, KAUST professor of material science and engineering, was among the new inductees elected to the Society's 2023 Fellows Class.
25 January, 2023
A new health agreement between KAUST, the Ministry of Investment of Saudi Arabia (MISA)and Novo Nordisk aims to develop the Kingdom’s biotech and pharma sector, with a focus on obesity and metabolic research
24 January, 2023
By combining cryogenic electron microscopy imaging, structural modeling and biochemical assays, KAUST researchers have shown the important role a specific enzyme plays in DNA repair.
26 December, 2022
Asmaa Abdallah, a postdoctoral research fellow at KAUST Communication and Computing Systems Lab (CCSL), has been named a Leading Innovator under 35 in the MENA region by MIT Technology Review Arabia.
14 December, 2022
A team of KAUST bioscientists has shown how DNA replication in yeast, which is the standard model for studying DNA replication across all species, differs significantly to that of humans. Their study will have implications for more accurate and efficient DNA replication in more complex organisms including humans.
14 December, 2022
Researchers are diagnosing many rare genetic conditions by applying the latest AI methods combined with machine learning.
11 December, 2022
Research work by KAUST electrical and computer engineering students Abeer Alamoudi and Qi Huang has been selected as the second-prize winner of the 2022 IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Student Competition "Communications Technology Changing the World."
08 December, 2022
Leena Ali Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of Bioscience at KAUST is appointed among six Next Generation Leaders by the Allen Institute
08 December, 2022
Better understanding of the mechanisms involved in DNA repair may pave the way for developing inhibitors to improve the effectiveness of radiation therapy.
27 November, 2022
A cell-culturing technique developed by KAUST scientists helps to create biological conditions that more closely mirror physiological environments compared to standard protocols used in most laboratories today.
21 November, 2022
A KAUST-led team of researchers has revealed properties of the MIZ1 protein (illustrated above). Their findings could advance drug discovery for previously incurable diseases, including some forms of cancer.
20 November, 2022
A new chip developed by new KAUST faculty member Qiaoqiang Gan can be used to detect cancer and provide point-of-care diagnosis.
15 November, 2022
Qiaoqiang Gan, KAUST professor of material science engineering, and researcher in KSHI Genetic & metabolic diseases core group, was recently elected as an Optica Fellow (formerly OSA).
16 October, 2022
Revealing zinc’s interaction with a critical transport protein underscores the need to study biological pathways under physiologically relevant conditions.
04 October, 2022
Blocking the overexpression of specific repeat RNA sequences could prove promising for the treatment of premature aging syndromes.
25 August, 2022
A team of researchers at the KAUST Sensors Lab, led by Professor Khaled Nabil Salama, is focused on developing brain-mimicking neuromorphic circuits to build efficient vision sensors.