UAE Business: Abdul Latif Jameel Health appoints special scientific advisors – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Abdul Latif Jameel Health appoints special scientific advisors – Gulf Digital News

Abdul Latif Jameel Health has announced the appointment of three globally respected medical and biotech leaders as special scientific advisors. They will work together with the leadership team to realise the company’s mission of accelerating access to modern medical care for those who need it most.

The first advisor, Professor Lord Ajay Kakkar PC is Emeritus Professor of Surgery at University College London and Director of the Thrombosis Research Institute. Completing his medical degree at King’s College Hospital Medical School, he received his PhD from Imperial College London. His research interests include the prevention and treatment of venous and arterial thromboembolic disease and cancer associated thrombosis.

Joining Professor Lord Kakkar is Professor James J. Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science at the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES) and Department of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Professor Collins’ research group works in synthetic biology and systems biology, with a particular focus on using network biology approaches to study antibiotic action, bacterial defense mechanisms, and the emergence of resistance.

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Professor Charles Coombes, MBBS FRCP MC FMedSci, Professor of Medical Oncology at Imperial College London is the third advisor to join the Abdul Latif Jameel