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Dr. Aida bint Ibrahim Al-Aqeel, Senior Consultant Pediatrics and Genetics at the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh and Senior Research Scientist, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Wilka Foundation for Genetic Research at the prestigious University of Cambridge, was invited in the presence of the British Minister of Health. She was honored in the British House of Commons as one of the most important speakers at the conference The global project on the human genome and genetic diseases prevalent in the world.
Dr. Al-Aqeel gave a lecture entitled (Genetic counseling and genetic research in the Islamic world and ethical challenges).
The lecture was well received by more than 500 scholars and researchers who attended the conference from around the world. Dr. Al-Aqeel discussed in the session the tolerance of Islam and its tolerant teachings in preventing and treating genetic diseases and the importance of conducting genetic research according to the teachings of our tolerant religion. Among the speakers was Professor Frances Coles, discoverer of the human genome in the world. Professor Collins commended the lecture and its importance for the advancement of science and research and for treating patients on solid ethical foundations. The Aqeel, Professor Collins and the speakers in the British House of Commons were honored by a member of Parliament, Mr. Allenkein, in the presence of the British Minister of Health.
And Dr. Aida is the first physician in the Islamic and Arab world who has been invited to the Wellcome Genetic Research Foundation in Britain and is honored in the British House of Commons.
Due to the importance of her research, she was invited by the main publisher of the international medical journal (Nature Qentics) in the United States of America, which is considered the first scientific journal in the world. Dr. Al-Aqeel was invited to write a paper on (genetic research in the Islamic world, ethical challenges) and given the importance of the research It was published as one of the magazine highlights. Dr. Al-Aqeel is the first female doctor and scientist in the Islamic and Arab world to be invited to write such a research in this internationally distinguished journal.
