KAUST R3T News
20 August, 2023
KAUST new strategy 2023-2030KAUST’s strategy presents new opportunities to accelerate our positive impact on the world through alignment with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 Research, Development, and Innovation (RDI) priorities, enhancing our global and local partnerships, and focusing on commercialization and economic impact.
18 July, 2023
Recognizing diseases Accurately at speedKAUST researchers work with Saudi hospitals to test novel approaches for early pathogen identification
18 July, 2023
Clear signals: how intricate brain connections underpin sensory perceptionLeena 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
Dancing proteins and a cure for cancerWith his team, Prof. Łukasz Jaremko identified a dynamic behavior of certain proteins that make them potentially useful for targeted cancer therapy.
09 July, 2023
Peiying Hong Named Finalist for the 2023 Letten PrizeProfessor Peiying Hong has been honored as one of the four finalists for the prestigious 2023 Letten Prize Award.
19 June, 2023
Leukemia spread fueled by messenger particlesTiny packets of molecular cargo shed by cancer cells seed the foundations for metastasis at distant sites in the body.
09 May, 2023
Using plants as factories for green drug productionBiopharming technique yields cost-effective and environmentally friendly antimicrobial peptides.
17 April, 2023
Single-atom catalyst for cancer detectionAn electronic sensor based on individual atoms anchored to MXene nanomaterials can detect tumor-specific biomarkers.
16 April, 2023
First-of-its-kind Kingdom stem cell study sheds light on Klinefelter syndromeIn a research partnership between KAUST, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah (KAU) and King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah (KAUH), scientists have conducted a first-of-its-kind study in the Kingdom that compares stem cells derived from a unique cohort of Saudi Klinefelter patients with a group of North American and European descent.
13 April, 2023
Uncovering hidden mitochondrial mutations in single cellsProf. Mo Li and Ph.D. student Chongwei Bi have developed a new single-cell sequencing technology that has revealed new details about mitochondrial mutations in human cells.
22 March, 2023
Ramadan Mubarak!Ramadan Kareem! May this Ramadan bring you happiness, joy and good health.
08 March, 2023
RNA: Don't kill the messengerA 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
Memory formed alongside brain signaling systemKAUST 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
Better models show how infectious diseases spreadA 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
Professor Qiaoqiang Gan elected as SPIE FellowSPIE, 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
KAUST agreement targets pressing healthcare issuesA 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
Fastening enzyme seals the deal in genome repairBy combining cryogenic electron microscopy imaging, structural modeling and biochemical assays, KAUST researchers have shown the important role a specific enzyme plays in DNA repair.
14 December, 2022
DNA replication in humans proves slow off the markA 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
Gene Detectives Solve Disease MysteriesResearchers are diagnosing many rare genetic conditions by applying the latest AI methods combined with machine learning.
11 December, 2022
KAUST ECE students win IEEE ComSoc Student Competition prizeResearch 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."