Alice K Abdel Aleem
Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar, Qatar
Biography
Alice K Abdel Aleem has her expertise in the field of Human Clinical and Molecular Genetics with interest in Neurogenetics disorders. Her primary area of interest is to provide reliable and high-quality research results to health care Physicians to improve diagnostics in human genetic disorders. Her current Extramural Funded Research is focusing on genes identification in monogenetic disorders. She is mainly concerned with building clinical and genomic databases for patients, encountered in Qatar, with spastic paraplegias, heritable muscle diseases, brain malformation, and interesting unrecognized Mendelian disorders. Results of her research is functionally investigated in her lab and in collaboration with investigators of international academic institutes to be able to provide confirmed information to the health care Physicians to use in counseling and managing their patients.