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The winner of the Prince Salman Prize for Disability Research in the Medical and Health Sciences Branch, Dr. Fawzan bin Sami Al-Kuriya, revealed that his research team had discovered the gene responsible for a severe type of disability accompanied by small head size, severe deformation of the face, peeling of the skin, and premature death. In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency, Dr. Al-Kuraia indicated that the responsible gene encodes an enzyme that produces a specific amino acid called serine, which reveals for the first time the importance of this amino acid in the process of normal formation of the brain, face and skin, useful that this is one example of more than a hundred genes that the research team has identified Its relationship with various types of disabilities for the first time, and was published in scientific journals, which contributed, praise be to God, clearly to our understanding of the nature of the formation and functioning of the human body.
The winner of the Prince Salman Prize for Disability Research in the Medical and Health Sciences Branch emphasized that the direct practical benefit of this research, which is of equal importance in academic terms, enables families with these different types of genetic disabilities to avoid the occurrence of disability in their children in the future through early diagnosis techniques during pregnancy or Diagnosis of the fertilized egg before implantation in the uterus, starting with his happiness with what he provided to affected families in the Kingdom or abroad in having children free of disability, thanks to God, and then thanks to the research he is doing at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center.
With regard to the secret of his research success, Dr. Al-Kuraia attributed this to the team spirit, supporting King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center Unlimited for his research, Prince Salman Center for Disability Research, and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, in addition to the Saudi Genome Project.
At the end of his statement, Dr. Al-Qurie expressed his happiness and pride in receiving the award from His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, appreciating those in charge of the award, let them and the participants, wishing this award will continue to inspire researchers in the field of disability from All countries of the world.
