Kuwaiti doctor explains innovative ‘Method for Treating Vitiligo’

Kuwaiti doctor explains innovative ‘Method for Treating Vitiligo’

By Faten Omar

KUWAIT: The RS Patents and Intellectual Property Office at Kuwait University registered a new patent for the academic year 2020/2021 entitled “Method for Treating Vitiligo” by Dr Mohammad Al-Ansary, a faculty member and researcher at the Faculty of Medicine at Kuwait University. Kuwait Times spoke with Ansary, who is currently doing research at Durham University in the United Kingdom to learn more about his vitiligo treatment.

Kuwait Times: Tell us more about yourself.

Dr Mohammad Al-Ansary: I’m a medical biochemist, so we do experiments to create new ways of treatments and general health research to promote life. I’m a vitiligo patient myself and that is what drives me to learn and do more research on vitiligo. I was five years old when I got diagnosed with vitiligo. I tried all sorts of treatments available, but a medical dermatologist advised me there is no treatment and I have to live with it.

My vitiligo became more progressive and my mother told me that maybe when you grow up you’ll focus on that condition or maybe a treatment. Thank God it came true. I studied to be a medical doctor (MD). But later I understood that MDs are mainly trained to diagnose and