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June, 2022

Professor Salem Chouaib ranked #2 in the United Arab Emirates among Top Scientists for 2022

June 24, 2022

Research.com, a prominent US-based academic and scientific platform has published the 2022 Edition of Rankings of the leading Scientists in the area of Medicine. Top scientists were ranked by their Microsoft Academic Graph H-index and number of citations. Following a meticulous examination of over 65,743 profiles of scientists for the...

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May, 2022

Professor Salem Chouaib – Laureate of the Nencki Award 2021

May 20, 2022

Prof. Salem Chouaib, Vice Chancellor of Research and Director of Thumbay Institute for Precision Medicine (TRIPM) at Gulf Medical University has been awarded the Nencki Prize 2021 for his outstanding achievements in cancer research. The announcement of the award came earlier this year on January 25. The Marceli Nencki Award ceremony...

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April, 2022

Research Scientists from TRIPM present their scientific discoveries at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2022

April 13, 2022

The AACR Annual Meeting is the focal point of the cancer research community, where scientists, clinicians, other health care professionals, survivors, patients, and advocates gather to share the latest advances in cancer science and medicine. 19,000 people have registered for Annual Meeting 2022, with about 78 percent attending in person...

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December, 2021

GMU Research Day 2021

December 21, 2021

The Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine (TRIPM) at Gulf Medical University organized the Annual GMU Research Day on 21st and 22nd December 2021. This event witnessed the culmination of research from all colleges at GMU as well clinical research at Thumbay Hospital. A total of 42 research projects were presented by faculty...

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November, 2021

Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine (TRIPM) at Gulf Medical University inaugurates the Zebrafish Animal Facility

November 23, 2021

The Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine (TRIPM) at GMU inaugurated the Zebrafish Facility on 23 November 2021.  Chief guests from the Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences and New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) attended the ceremony.  His Excellency Abdulla Bin Souqat, Executive Director of the...

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December, 2020

Deriving an in vitro characteristic hypoxia gene signature with prognostic power in solid tumors

December 21, 2020

As part of the Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine seminar series, on 21 December 2020, Dr. Raefa Abou Khouzam, Assistant Professor and Research Scientist in Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, at TRIPM spoke on her research topic “Deriving an in vitro characteristic hypoxia gene signature with prognostic power in...

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Shedding light on mutations in hypoxic cancer cells

December 1, 2020

INNOVATION@UAE, a periodical magazine Issued by the Ministry of Education of the United Arab Emirates, Issue 01 December 2020. The Innovation@UAE magazine published a feature story of the research publication by Dr. Goutham and his colleagues at TRIPM: highlighting the research project investigating the growth of cancer cells with a...

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November, 2018

Driving Neuroblastoma From Proliferation to Differentiation

November 19, 2018

As part of the Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine seminar series, on 8th November 2018, Dr. Fahad Ali, Assistant Professor- Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU), Dubai, UAE spoke on his research topic “Driving Neuroblastoma From Proliferation to...

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