Dr. Nayef A. Mazloum joined WCM-Q in January 2011. He comes from WCMC in New York where he served since 2008 as instructor of microbiology and immunology. He graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1994, continuing his studies at New York Medical College in Valhalla, graduating with a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular biology in 2003. He started his postdoctoral training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York before continuing at WCMC.
Dr. Nayef Mazloum is working to uncover the molecular mechanisms of human diseases including metabolic disorders, cancer and age-related diseases. His research focus involves molecular aspects of DNA repair mechanisms as related to the stability of the genome and how the dysfunction of these regulatory pathways leads to disease onset.
He has on-going active collaboration researchers in Qatar including HBKU, Qatar University, and Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).
Dr. Mazloum serves as the Assistant Dean for Student Research. In this capacity, he chairs and serves on multiple committees such as the Medical Student Research Award Committee, Student Presentation Committee, WCMQ Research Retreat Planning Committee, and Honor’s Research Selection Committee and many others. He serves as the advisor for the WCM-Q Student Research Association; a student run organization that he has founded with a group of students.
