Seed Grant Funding –
2023
Establishment of a Saudi Hospital network to recruit Klinefelter syndrome patients and derive iPSCs using a urine-based reprogramming approach
KAUST PI(s): Antonio Adamo Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC Collaboration Partner(s): Ali Alzahrani
Establishing ISCU as a novel causal gene for recessive congenital sideroblastic anemia
KAUST PI(s): Bruno Reversade Collaborative Institution: Koc University (Turkey) Collaboration Partner(s): Umut Altunoglu
A Non-invasive Neuroregenerative Approach for Spinal Cord Injury Treatment via Wireless Electrical Stimulation of Self-assembled Bionic Scaffold
KAUST PI(s): Dana Alsulaiman Collaborative Institution: Imperial College London (UK) Collaboration Partner(s): Rylie Green
Mxene for Smart Phone-based Ultrasensitive Vitamin D Detection
KAUST PI(s): Husam AlShareef Collaborative Institution: KSAU Collaboration Partner(s): Abdulghader Alkinawi
NMR-based Metabolomics to Enable Prevision Medicine Approaches for Rare Diseases
KAUST PI(s): Lukasz Jaremko (with Mariusz Jaremko) Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC Collaboration Partner(s): Fowzan Alkuraya
Radar and Machine-Learning-Based Monitoring and Classification of Rehabilitation Exercises
KAUST PI(s): Mohamed-Slim Alouini Collaborative Institution: KAUST Health Collaboration Partner(s): Mudassar Habib
Smart Platforms for Treating Pompe Disease by Gene Therapy
KAUST PI(s): Niveen Khashab Collaborative Institution: KAIMRC Collaboration Partner(s): Manal Alaamery
X-ray Imaging Scintillators for High-Resolution Medical Imaging
KAUST PI(s): Omar Mohammed (with Andy Huang and Khaled Salama) Collaborative Institution: No collaborator named yet Collaboration Partner(s): No collaborator named yet
Fibers for woven and 3D-printed large-area conformal X-ray imaging platforms
KAUST PI(s): Osman Bakr Collaborative Institution: University of Hamburg (Germany) Collaboration Partner(s): Mehmet Bayindir
Detection of Neuro-Specific Exosomal α-Synuclein for Early Prediction of Parkinson’s Disease
KAUST PI(s): Sahika Inal Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC (Ed Coupler) & Uni. of Oxford (UK) (George Tofaris) Collaboration Partner(s): Ed Coupler (KFSH&RC) & George Tofaris (Oxford)
Your smartphone could monitor your hydration status
KAUST PI(s): Tareq Al-Naffouri (with Meriem Laleg) Collaborative Institution: KAIMRC Collaboration Partner(s): Ali Haneef
Combining innovative genotyping and localized imputation to predict common diseases in Saudi Arabia
KAUST PI(s): Xin Gao Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC Collaboration Partner(s): Fowzan Alkuraya
Seed Grant Funding –
2020
Defining epigenetic regulatory mechanisms of human heat stress response with and without heatstroke
Development of Machine Learning Algorithm for Differentiation of Lung Cancer Subtypes
KAUST PI(s): Peter Wonka Collaborative Institution: KAIMRC (NGHA) Collaboration Partner(s): Mohd Alawad, Hussein Mohd, Abdulrahman Aljouie, Yaha Bukhari
Implementation of Metagenomics Technologies to Revolutionize Solid Organ Transplantation: Toward a Safer Transplantation
KAUST PI(s): Arnab Pain Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC Collaboration Partner(s): Reem Almaghrabi, Ahmed Alqahtani, Abdulraham Alrajhi
Integrative Rare Loss of function (LOF) Variant Analysis for hundreds of phenotypes in the Saudi Population
KAUST PI(s): Stefan Arold (Xin Gao and Jesper Tegner) Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC Collaboration Partner(s): Fowzan Sami Alkuraya
Computer-aided detection and diagnosis of atherosclerosis using signal processing and artificial intelligence methods
KAUST PI(s): Marium Laleg Collaborative Institution: KAIMRC (NGHA) Collaboration Partner(s): Ali Haneef
HLA-Based Banking of iPS cells and the generation of biological pacemakers. Deep Molecular and Phenotypic Characterization and Comparison of iPS-derived Pacemaker-like Cells with primary pacemaker cells isolated from human heart
KAUST PI(s): Jesper Tegner Collaborative Institution: KAIMRC (NGHA) Collaboration Partner(s): Dr. Khaled Alsayegh
Circulating miRNAs as Potential Diagnostic Biomarker for NAFLD/NASH related Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) in Saudi Population
KAUST PI(s): Valerio Orlando Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC Collaboration Partner(s): Samar Zailaie
Establishing a novel platform with the enhancement of signals and resolution on human samples: Enhanced NMR metabolomics tackling variants of uncertain significance in Saudi population
KAUST PI(s): Lukasz Jaremko Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC Collaboration Partner(s): Majed Desouki
Glycosyltransferase gene expression profile as a predictor of clinical cancer type and survival
KAUST PI(s): Jasmeen Merzaban (with Xin Gao) Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC Collaboration Partner(s): Shahrukh Hashmi, Ali Alzahrani
Microbiomes in Health and Disease: the Saudi Perspective
KAUST PI(s): Arnab Pain (with Daniele Daffonchio) Collaborative Institution: KFMR-KAU Collaboration Partner(s): Dr. Turki Abujamel
Developing a potent pharmacologic inhibitor of The Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma-coactivator (PPRC1) for the treatment of drug resistant Myeloid Leukemia
KAUST PI(s): Magnus Rueping Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC Collaboration Partner(s): Sayer Rashed Alharbi
An iPSC-based disease-modeling approach to study Klinefelter Syndrome in a unique cohort of Saudi patients
KAUST PI(s): Antonio Adamo Collaborative Institution: KAU Collaboration Partner(s): Taha Abdel Maguid, Majed Flemban, Amal Kokandi
Identification of the molecular mechanisms conferring protection from type two diabetes onset in a Saudi patient knock out for the glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor (GLP1R-/-)
KAUST PI(s): Antonio Adamo Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC Collaboration Partner(s): Fowzan Sami Alkurya
Potential role and therapeutic targeting of Repetitive Elements In Ageing associated Cardiovascular Disease
KAUST PI(s): Valerio Orlando Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC Collaboration Partner(s): Olga Vriz, Gruschen R Veldtman
Clinical and biochemical characterization of genetic diseases associated with neuron-glia metabolic interaction including lactate production and transporter defect in the nervous system
KAUST PI(s): Pierre Magistretti Collaborative Institution: King Saud University Medical City (KSUMC) Collaboration Partner(s): Malak Ali Alghamdi
Establishment of a Saudi cohort of iPSCs using genomic integration-free methods
KAUST PI(s): Mo Li and Antonio Adamo
Process Development and Production of Recombinant Influenza Surface Proteins as Alternatives to the Traditional Egg Derived Vaccines
KAUST PI(s): Stefan Arold Collaborative Institution: SaudiVax Collaboration Partner(s): Anwar Hashem
Exploring the Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) for Common Multifactorial Disorders in Saudi Arabia
KAUST PI(s): Xin Gao Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC Collaboration Partner(s): Fowzan Sami Alkuraya
Maximize human perception of X-ray Images by using Computed tomography (CT)
KAUST PI(s): Wolfgang Heidrich Collaborative Institution: KAIMRC (NGHA) Collaboration Partner(s): Mohd Alawad, Mohd F.Mohammad, Abdulrahman Aljouie, Yaha Bukhari
Precise and Comprehensive NMR-based Metabolomics Profiling in Saudi Patients with known or suspected Inborn Errors of Metabolism
KAUST PI(s): Mariusz Jaremko Collaborative Institution: KFSH&RC Collaboration Partner(s): Majed Desouki
Development of Machine Learning Algorithm for Differentiation of Lung Cancer Subtypes
KAUST PI(s): Peter Wonka Collaborative Institution: KAIMRC (NGHA) Collaboration Partner(s): Mohd Alawad, Mohd F.Mohammad, Abdulrahman Aljouie, Yaha Bukhari