Medicine

The signing ceremony took place on the campus of the Arab American University in Ramallah, in the presence of the Chairman of the University Board of Directors, Dr. Yousef Asfour, Martin Doltrey, Director of the British Council Office in Palestine, Vice President for Academic Affairs Prof. Dr. Waleed Deeb, Vice President for Medical Faculties Affairs Prof. Dr. Mohammad Asia, Vice President for the Faculty of Medicine Affairs Prof. Dr. Malik Al-Zaben, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dr.

The group consists of global centres, including the Broad Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Baylor Faculty of Medicine, Stanford University, and the Information Centre of the University of Washington.

This group aims to unify the efforts of scientists in discovering the genes behind rare genetic diseases by developing methodologies for reading the genetic sequence using exome, genome, RNA and methylation patterns and other functional research.

This took place during the celebration of the Arab American University, under the auspices of the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazin, for the inauguration of the University Rehabilitation Medical Complex, which is the one of its kind in Palestine, in addition to the inauguration of the Faculty of Modern Medicine building and the Prosthetic Limbs Factory, which is the first of its kind in the Middle East.