In the Media

The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) yesterday held the digital launch of the second cycle of Challenge 22, with the participation of partners and ambassadors across 10 Arab countries.
Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the UAE are the countries covered by Challenge 22, an innovation award launched in 2015 to promote a culture of innovation in the region and attract entrepreneurs, scientists and pioneers from across the Arab world.

Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) has teamed up with the Qatar National Library (QNL) to extend the reach of the results of the QNRF-funded research in public domain. Under the joint initiative, an advanced online searchable database will allow users to access published results of QNRF-funded research projects. Students and researchers searching QNRF database entries are linked to the full text of the publications via QNL subscriptions and can gain instant access from Qatar Foundation or Qatar University networks, with access from other networks requiring a QNL registration.

In 2008, Joel Malek, a DNA-sequencing specialist from Boston, Massachusetts, packed his bags and left one east coast for another, 6,500 miles away in Qatar. At the time, the Arab state was recruiting skilled scientists and academics to teach and conduct research in its 14-square-kilometre 'Education City', which was under construction on the outskirts of Doha. Malek was given generous funding to set up a genomics research lab for Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q), the first US medical school to open a campus in the country, in 2001.

UK and Gulf-based researchers and scientists will have the opportunity to get a £400,000 grant from the UK government to research on ‘priority areas’ it identified, British Council and embassy officials announced yesterday.

Qatar Foundation Research and Development (QF R&D) recently held a high-level event exploring pathways for developing human capital, essential in building a sustainable knowledge-based future for Qatar.

BIOMEDICAL researchers and industry representatives from across the globe met to discuss strategies for translating innovation from the laboratory to the marketplace at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar's (WCM-Q) Industry Academia Interactions event.

Global biomedical researchers and industry representatives discussed strategies for translating innovation from the laboratory to the marketplace at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar’s (WCM-Q) Industry Academia Interactions event.

Dr Khalid A al-Subai, the team lead and QEERI’s acting Executive Director and first author of the publication describes how Qatar's new exoplanets were found.

Scientists at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute of the Qatar Foundation (QEERI/QF) announced the discovery of three new extrasolar planets using an optical Earth-based telescope established by QF as part of the ongoing Qatar Exoplanet Survey (QES).