Principal Investigators
Ammira Al-Shabeeb Akil, PhD
BVMs, MSc, GC-LTHE1, EMBA, PhD
Principal Investigator – Assistant Level
Precision Prevention of Diabetes, Obesity and Cancer (the DOC)
Email: aakil (@) sidra.org
Annalisa Terranegra, PhD
Principal Investigator – Assistant Level
Laboratory of Precision Nutrition - Mother and Child Health Division
Email: aterranegra (@) sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037396
Bernice Lo, PhD
Principal Investigator
Laboratory of Immunoregulation
Email: blo(@) sidra.org
Phone: +974 4003 7385
Chiara Cugno, MD
Director - Advanced Cell Therapy Core
Advanced Cell Therapy Core
Email: ccugno @ sidra.org
Phone: +974 74782930
Cristina Maccalli, PhD
Principal Investigator – Assistant Level
Laboratory of Immune Biological Therapy
Email: cmaccalli @ sidra.org
Phone number: +974 4003 7576
Khalid A. Fakhro PhD
Chief Research Officer and Chair of the Precision Medicine Program, Sidra Medicine
Professor of Genomics, College of Health and Life Sciences, HBKU
Email: kfakhro @ sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037365
Luis R. Saraiva, PhD
Principal Investigator – Associate Level
A/Director – Disease Modeling and Therapeutics Department
Email: lsaraiva (@) sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037639
Matteo A Avella, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator – Assistant Level
Laboratory of Reproductive Biology
Email: mavella (@) sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037353
Nicholas van Panhuys, PhD
Principal Investigator – Assistant Level
Laboratory of Immunoregulation
Email: nvanpanhuys (@) sidra.org
Phone: +974 4003-7559
Sara Deola, MD, PhD
Investigator Cell and Gene Therapy Specialist
Advanced Cell Therapy Core
Email: sdeola@sidra.org or sdeola1@sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037553
Souhaila Al Khodor, MSc, PhD
Principal Investigator – Associate Level
Director – Maternal and Child Health Department
Laboratory of Microbiome and Biomarkers Discovery
Email: salkhodor@sidra.org
Phone: +974 40037397
Wouter R.L. Hendrickx, PhD
Principal Investigator – Assistant Level
Tumor Biology and Immunology Laboratory
Email: whendrickx (@) sidra.org
Younes Mokrab, PhD
Principal Investigator - Associate level
Medical and Population Genomics Lab
Email: ymokrab (@) sidra.org