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Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) and the Doha International Family Institute (DIFI) announced the awardees of the OSRA Research Grant at the Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference 2016 (ARC’16), which took place last month.

Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) has awarded prizes to the top three research projects presented by students in the 8^th cycle of its Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP). The awardees were announced on Monday 21^st March 2016 at the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC). 

Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) has awarded top three research projects presented by students in the eighth cycle of its Undergraduate Research Experience Programme (UREP). The wining projects covered research areas, including biomedicine and health; engineering; and technology. First place in the competition went to a team from Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ). Titled ‘Investigation of the Performances of the Gas Electron Multiplier for Collider Experiments’, the project involved running experimental tests of the gas electron multiplier (GEM) under different conditions for future use in applications such as high energy collider experiments.

Qatar will host the annual IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference  (WCNC16) under the patronage Minister of Transport and Communications H E Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti from April 3 to 6 at Sheraton Grand Doha Resort & Convention Hotel.

Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) has announced the awardees of its flagship National Priorities Research Program (NPRP), and of its inaugural Path towards Personalized Medicine (PPM) grant. The announcements came during the Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (ARC’16), which was held at the Qatar National Convention Centre last week. QNRF,a member of Qatar Foundation Research and Development (QF R&D),presented grants to 89 research proposals across 18 institutions in Qatar for the ninth cycle of the NPRP. The five awardees of the first cycle ofPPM were also disclosed.