in medical genetics
The Personal Medicine Center of the Partners Group, which supervises the university hospitals of Harvard Medical School in Boston, announced that Dr. Fawzan bin Sami Al-Qurie has won the William King Boys Junior Medical Genetics Award, as the first doctor to win this prestigious American award from outside the United States of America.
The Partners Group has d this award at the US national level to highlight future leaders in clinical and laboratory genetics. The award began in 2006 and is organized annually. Four of the brightest faces in the field of medical genetics in the United States of America have so far won. The big surprise this year was the ion of Dr. Al-Kuraia as the first winner of this award from outside the United States of America.
The organizing committee for the award is made up of a constellation of the most prominent genetics figures in North America and depends on several data to determine the winner. The doctor’s research and clinical achievements in a short period of time, as the number of published papers exceeded forty research papers, all of which were published in prestigious scientific journals, including what is the first ever such as the prestigious journal Science.
Although Dr. Al-Kuraia, who received his higher education at Harvard University, returned to the Kingdom in late 2007, he is still on the cadre of faculty members at Harvard Medical School, where he teaches and supervises joint research every summer in Boston. Dr. Al-Kuraia, who is currently the chief scientist for genetic research at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center and a faculty member at both King Saud University and Al Faisal University, will deliver a large lecture at the university hospitals in Harvard on the twenty-third of June as part of the award ceremony. In addition to an official dinner in his honor, in which he received the award, which is a shield and the amount of twenty thousand dollars.
