Professor Fawzan Al-Qurayyah for his achievements
The American Society of Human Genetics has announced that Saudi Professor Dr. Fawzan Al-Qurai''a, Senior Consultant of Genetics at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh, has won the prestigious "Card Stern" award, which is awarded annually to a world rich in human genetics with outstanding achievements during the past 10 years.
By granting this year''s prize to Professor Al-Quray, the award will be broken for the first time since its inauguration in 2001 AD, after all the winners were from American scientific institutions, although the field of competition remained available to prominent scientists from all countries of the world.
Professor Al-Karai`’s merit for the award came in recognition of the scientific committee for his abundant contributions in human genetics represented in discovering the physiological and structural functions of hundreds of genes, which made it possible to diagnose many patients with genetic disorders from all over the world and prevent the occurrence of many genetic diseases, as well as the importance of his discoveries in devoting The concept of the close relationship between genetics and human health in what has become known as personalized medicine, which focuses on the importance of the genetic map in understanding all diseases.
The American Society of Human Genetics stated in its press release, "Dr. Al-Karai is an example of a scientist who turns his clinical observations into laboratory research," noting in its statement that "his tireless work to understand genetic diseases has led to the discovery of new pathological mechanisms for genetic mutations in humans."
Professor Al-Qurayyah has a proven record of research and academic production amounting to 430 scientific papers refereed as he is a member of the editorial team of a number of prestigious scientific journals and a keynote speaker in many international scientific conferences.
During the past years, Professor Al-Karea` has won several awards, including the King Salman Award for Disability Research in the Health and Medical Sciences Branch in its first session in 2014 AD, and the William King Boys Prize for Genetics in 2010 AD from the Harvard Personal Medicine Institute in Boston as the first winner from outside the United States of America. .
It is noteworthy that the "Kurt Stern" award, which was established by the American Society for Human Genetics and bears the name of the American scientist of German origin, Kurt Stern, one of the pioneers of human genetics, was previously won by the most famous geneticists in the United States of America, such as Professor David Page, Director of the Whitehead Research Institute from MIT University, Professor David Hessler, Director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Professor David Altshuler, Former Academic Director of the Harvard-MIT Joint Broad Institute, Professor Jay Chandouri, the innovator of a new gene sequencing technology from the University of Washington, and Professor Mark DeLay of the University of Harvard and currently Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Helsinki, Professor Scar Katharsan of Harvard University and former Director of the Center for Diagnostic Medicine.
