Dr. Souhaila Al Khodor

MSc, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology

Principal Investigator – Full Level | Director of Reproductive and Perinatal Health – Translational Research Program Laboratory of Microbiome and Biomarkers Discovery

Dr. Al Khodor is the Director of Maternal and Child Health program in the research department at Sidra Medicine, Qatar, since July 2019 and an Investigator since January 2015.  Dr. Al Khodor received her Bachelor’s degree in Medical Lab. technology from the Faculty of Public Health at the Lebanese University in 2001. Soon after, she started her master’s degree in microbiology and Immunology at the American University of Beirut (2002-2005). Dr. Al Khodor received her second master’s degree and PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA (2005-2008). Before joining Sidra, Dr. Al Khodor worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Signaling systems Unit, laboratory of Systems Biology, at the National Institute of Allergy and infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland, USA.