Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings Volume 2016 Issue 1

Background Imported malaria has been a great challenge for public health in the State of Qatar due to the large number of immigrant workers come from the Indian subcontinent and Sub-Saharan Africa. Antimalarial drug resistance has emerged as one of the greatest challenges facing malaria control today. Chloroquine (CQ) resistance in Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) is associated with genetic polymorphisms in Pf CQR-tr Read More

Introduction The levels of chronic disease amongst the Qatari population have increased dramatically in recent years. Whilst these diseases are highly prevalent in Qatar, awareness surrounding the recognition of symptoms and the disease itself are limited. Sourcing accurate information about health conditions is crucial. It is currently unknown how Qatari people source information concerning health problems for themsel Read More

Background Despite being a major cellular component of various engineered skin substituent, underlying mechanism of successful fibroblast transplantation in wound healing is not clear. Here we show that substances derived from starved fibroblast accelerate wound healing process in rat. Material and methods Starved human fibroblast cell culture supernatant (SFS) was prepared and tested for its wound healing capaci Read More

Background Diabetes is a chronic illness in which the body cannot manage the levels of sugar, and it affects an estimated 387 million people worldwide. According to World Health Organization it is the 7th leading cause of death in the world. Frequent monitoring (3 to 10 times) of blood glucose is important for diabetes patients to prevent serious health problems, but existing commercial products of blood glucose measu Read More

Background With the advance of semiconductor technologies, bio-technological application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) have become a major trend of the industry. Examples include Microelectrode measurement array systems for in-vitro and in-vivo physiological research at the cellular level [1] [2]. Using DNA microarrays can lead to a high throughput, which finds wide applications in genome research and drug d Read More

Rationale Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent neurologic conditions. It is estimated to affect 70 million people worldwide. Epilepsy is an important cause of disability and mortality. It is associated with social stigma and significant economic costs. Although epilepsy is a disease with a worldwide distribution, its prevalence varies between different countries. Very little is known about the epidemiology of epilepsy in Qatar. Qatar's p Read More

Background and Objective Often times, clinicians use a three-dimensional set of medical images to diagnose and plan treatments, which typically include visual identification of structures such as bones and tissues [1]. This can be a challenging task as anatomical structures of interest can contain significant noise, and easily blend with neighboring tissues. We propose to tackle 2 cases: (a) treatment planning of pelvic fractu Read More

In the last decade, starting from family-based association analysis and progressing to population-based association analysis have helped in understanding etiology of many rare and complex disorders. As of Nov. 2013, National Human Genome Research institute (NHGRI) Catalog of published Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) contained 1,751 manually curated publications with 11,912 SNP-trait associations. Read More

A self-calibrated gas sensing system for breath analysis is introduced. The system is composed of an array of high sensitivity gas sensor combined with temperature, humidity and flow sensor for calibration. The system is able to diagnose common diseases and help people stop them at early stages. 1. Introduction Breath analysis is a new method for point-of-care health monitoring and diagnosis. Compared to traditional diagn Read More