Presented By:
Radja Messai-Badji
Speaker Biography:
She holds a computer engineering degree from Algeria, a Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in clinical informatics from the University of Joseph Fourier, and a Master’s of public health from Lille University in France. Before joining QGP, she was a postdoctoral fellow for four years at the Center of Medical Informatics in Lille. She participated in many national and European projects related to knowledge representation, biomedical data analysis, and data governance during that period. Later, she was appointed as a postdoctoral fellow at Sidra Medical and Research center in Qatar. The objective of her research was to develop methods for efficient data integration between genomic and phenotypic data and models for data sharing in the biomedical domain. Dr. Radja Badji joined Qatar Genome Program (QGP) as a scientist in January 2017 and now is the manager of genome operations, where she coordinates between the different stakeholders of the program and plays a central role in the development of the QChip and other custom arrays and champions their implementation in clinical and research applications.
Webinar:
Research infrastructures and genomics: How Qatar Precision Medicine Institute/Qatar Genome Program is building the next generation of infrastructures to test the value of predictive genomics
Webinar Abstract:
Predictive Genomics (PG) is a powerful capability to help predict disease risk and understand drug responses to improve health outcomes and manage costs. Powerful and complex research infrastructures are needed to fill the knowledge gap on developing and implementing PG, including biobanks, data infrastructures, ELSI & top in class genotyping. Qatar is among the pioneering countries in the region, with PG and precision medicine at the heart of its health strategy. Qatar Genome Program (QGP) is a national program that has contributed so far to sequencing more than 28,000 whole genomes from the Qatar population and over 2,900 whole genomes from 19 other Arab countries collected by Qatar Biobank. The QBB/QGP data is the most important existing genomic data on the Arab and Middle Eastern regions. It contributes to understanding the genetic structure of these populations, elucidating the genetic factors of various diseases, and laying the ground for precision medicine in the region. Dr. Radja Messai-Badji will share her experience within QGP and provide her opinion on the key elements necessary to build a state-of-the-art predictive genomics program. She will discuss the main obstacles at the scientific, technical, ELSI, and organizational levels that have faced the program and how QGP is working on overcoming such barriers.
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