Dr. Said Dermime
Senior Scientist
Director of Translational Cancer Research Facility, NCCCR
Adjunct Associate Professor, College of Health and Life Sciences (CHLS-HBKU)
Dr. Said Dermime obtained his PhD degree in immunology from Salford University, Manchester, UK in 1992. He then joined the NCI, Milan (Italy) from 1992-1994; then the NHLBI, NIH, (USA) from 1995-1997 as postdoctoral fellow. He was a Leader of the Lymphoma-Cancer Vaccine Team at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Manchester (UK) for a period of 5 years; then he was appointed as Senior Scientist to establish and lead the Tumor Immunology Section at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh (KSA) for a period of 6 years. In 2015, Dr. Said joined NCCCR at HMC, Doha (Qatar) as a director of the Translational Cancer Research Facility. Dr. Said published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in high impact factor journal. He also published several Book Chapters in prestigious publishers and an associate editor for the Frontiers in Immunology journal and a reviewer for many prestigious international scientific journals. Dr Said obtained several grants and supervised many Master and PhD students.
