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May 7, 2025
Dr. Raefa Abou Khouzam accepted an invitation from the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at AUS to give a seminar focusing on how she is applying the zebrafish model available at TRIPM in her research on pancreatic cancer. The talk took place on May 7, 2025, at the AUS campus and was attended by interested students and faculty. In her...
April 30, 2025
As part of the Research Seminar Series hosted by the TRIPM, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Mostafa Khair, Research Instrumentation Scientist in Molecular and Cell Biology at the Core Technology Platform Operations, NYU Abu Dhabi. Dr. Khair delivered a lecture titled “Metabolic Reprogramming in Cancer Cells: Unraveling the Role...
April 16, 2025
Gulf Medical University, Ajman, proudly hosted its prestigious annual Research Day on 15th and 16th April 2025, organised by Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine (TRIPM), in collaboration with the various colleges of GMU. This two-day event brought together researchers, faculty and students from across the university serving as...
February 21, 2025
The 5th forum for Women in Research, themed “QUWA: Together Innovating to Shape the Future”, was held on February 20th at the University of Sharjah and February 21st at the University of Khorfakkan. During the event forty-three grants were awarded for projects led by exceptional women researchers. Among the winners for the medical and...
January 31, 2025
Gulf Medical University (GMU), through the Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine (TRIPM), hosted a distinguished guest lecture by Prof. Ghaleb Husseini, Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the American University of Sharjah. The event, titled “Targeted Drug Delivery in Cancer Treatment Using...
January 23, 2025
We are proud to announce that Ayesha Rifath, a Research Assistant at TRIPM and Master of Drug Discovery (MDD) student at GMU, recently presented her research at the 2nd Al Ain University International Conference on Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences and the 3rd Al Ain University Health and Biomedical Postgraduate Symposium. The conference...
November 12, 2024
As part of the Research Seminar Series hosted by the TRIPM, Dr. Guido Giordano, Medical Oncology Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, School of Medicine, Foggia, Italy. Dr Guido delivered an insightful lecture titled “The Evolutionary Landscape of Pancreatic Cancer Treatment: From Therapeutic Nihilism...
May 3, 2024
In an effort to create a dynamic platform for recognizing outstanding breakthroughs in health professions’ research, the Annual GMU Research Day was held on 2nd and 3rd May 2024 at the Gulf Medical University campus in Al Jurf, Ajman. Organized by the Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine (TRIPM) in collaboration with the six...
April 20, 2024
The 15th International Conference of Contemporary Oncology is based in Poland and took place online from April 17-20. This conference is a yearly event that highlights the current state of cancer research from bench to bedside. This year, Dr. Raefa Abou Khouzam presented her research work during the session on the Tumor Microenvironment. In...
October 22, 2023
Dr. Iqbal’s team studies breast cancer metabolism at TRIPM. He recently presented his work on Metabolic Stratification of Breast Cancers at the American Association of Cancer Research Meeting on ‘Advances in Breast Cancer Research’ held from 19-22 October 2023 in San Diego, California, US. The presented work on breast...