"medical genetics" as the first doctor to win this prestigious American award from outside the United States.
The Personal Medicine Center at 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.
The Partners Group 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 have so far won.
The big surprise this year was the ion of Dr. Fawzan Al-Kuraia, "from the Al-Jouf region," as the first winner of this award from outside the United States. The organizing committee for the award is composed of a constellation of the most prominent genetics figures in North America and depends on several data to determine the winner. Dr. Al-Qurai was notified of his victory in person by a phone call from the representative of the committee who informed Dr. Al-Kuraia that the approval of his victory was unanimous, as the number of published papers increased to All 40 papers were published in prestigious scientific journals, including the first ever, such as the prestigious "Science" magazine.
Although Dr. Al-Kuraia, who received his higher education at Harvard University, returned to the Kingdom in late 2007, he is still on the faculty of the 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 June 23 as part of the handover ceremony. The award is in addition to an official dinner in his honor, in which he received the award, which is a shield and an amount of $ 20,000.
