Education

Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) have signed a gift agreement with Emirati Cardiologist Dr. Wael Al Mahmeed in the presence of MBRU Vice Chancellor Dr. Amer Sharif, Professor Alawi Alsheikh-Ali, Dean of the College of Medicine, and four of the awardees Dr. Tom Loney, Associate Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology at MBRU, and his research collaborator Dr. Luai Awad Ahmed, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University. Dr. Matthew Kroh, Chairman of the Digestive Disease Institute, and Associate Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, with Dr. Juan S. Barajas-Gamboa, Research Staff, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.

Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies (EIBFS), a regional leader in banking and finance education and training, has successfully wrapped up its first specialized certification program in financial technology (fintech) for the banking sector.

The American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) Department of International Programs and Partnerships (DIPP) hosted a visit for a University of Texas-Arlington (UTA) delegation consisting of Dr. Curtis Andressen, the Vice Provost, and Dr. Bahram Khalili, the Associate Professor of Instruction, to discuss the possible expansion of their previously established agreement to include the Computer Science field and student and faculty exchange opportunities.

In a recent study published in the journal Developmental Cell, NYU Abu Dhabi researchers have reported a new way in which the liver is primed to regenerate itself. They found that by stripping parts of the epigenome, which play a primary role in repressing “jumping genes” (i.e. transposable elements), other epigenetic marks were redistributed.

Dubai’s leading operator of schools to launch Dubai’s first affordable International Baccalaureate (IB) school, built on education excellence with global quality standards and benchmarked against the best schools in the world.

A recent study conducted at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has shown that the rapid warming of the Arabian Gulf could cause the intensification and expansion of the Arabian Sea dead zone, bringing the oxygen-depleted waters closer to the UAE’s shores.