Dr Rabab Khairat Ibrahim AbdelHay
National Research Centre
www.nrc.sci.eg
Email: rababncr2001@hotmail.com; rk.abd-elhay@nrc.sci.eg
Dr. Rabab Khairat, is a researcher in Department of Medical Molecular Genetics, Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, National Research Centre. Division of the human Genetics and Genome Research is a pioneer center in the Middle East with a number of ell known and prestigious professors in studying human genetic disorder especially the Mendelian disorders. Dr. Rabab Khairat was selected by the National Research Centre and Supreme Council of Antiquities to be a part of the first Egyptian team to discover more about the genetic makeup of the Egyptian mummies especially the Royal mummies in the 18th dynasty. Therefore, she was a member in the research team that founded an ancient DNA lab in the Egyptian museum with cooperation with Discovery channel (2006-2007, 2008-2009). Since then, she is a part time member of a team in Ancient DNA lab, Egyptian Museum and a member in the paleobiology committee in the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. In 2009, she got a DAAD scholarship (GERLs program) in Institute of Human Genetics, Division of Molecular Genetics, University of Tübingen, Germany, where she had finished her PhD degree in Biology and learned more about the Next Generation Sequencing technology (NGS). She used the NGS technology for the first time with the Egyptian mummies and Ice man mummy as a result of collaboration with Institute of Mummies and Iceman. Since 2014, Dr. Rabab is an active member in a number of running projects and is a member of the Center of Excellence for Human Genetic (CEHG), NRC, which is funded by Science & Technology Development Fund (STDF). The main aim of CEHG is the diagnosis and studying the genetic disorders in the Egyptian population considering the high percentage of the rare genetic disorders as a result of the high rate of consanguineous marriages. Dr. Rabab presented a number of lectures to NRC members and through different research groups to teach others more about the high throughput sequencing technology and its effect in the human genetic field. Recently and as a result of collaboration with McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetics Medicine (IGM), John-Hopkins University, Dr. Rabab was a post-doctoral fellow in IGM and supported by CEHG and STDF to be trained there. For fifteen years, Dr. Rabab is working with her professors and colleagues to know more about the genetic makeup in the modern and ancient Egyptian population and trying to help the Egyptian patients with the those rare genetic disorders.
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