Nady El Hajj

Dr. Nady El Hajj is Associate Professor of Genomics and Precision Medicine at the College of Health and Life Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He graduated in biology from the American University of Beirut in 2007 and received his PhD from the University of Würzburg in 2011. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Würzburg in Germany. He later joined Baylor College of Medicine as research associate. His main research interests are in the field of epigenetics where he currently focuses on developing novel epigenetic biomarkers for early disease prediction and on understanding the role of epigenetic mechanisms in aging and longevity. In 2012, he was awarded the young investigator award of the European Society of Human Genetics. His research is published in > 70 peer-reviewed articles and has been cited more than 3700 times (according to Google Scholar).