Dr. Hadi Yaseen (Qatar)

Dr. Hadi Mohamad Yassine is an associate professor of infectious diseases, section head of research at the Qatar University (QU) ‎Biomedical Research Center ‎‎(BRC), and the chair of QU IBC committee. He also serves as an adjunct faculty at Hamad Ben Khalifa University-Doha (2018-Current) and previously at the Catholic University of America ‎(CUA)- Washington D.C (2014/2015). In addition to his administrative duties, he leads the ‎communicable diseases section at the BRC. His research and teaching experiences have been fostered by ‎several ‎years of intensive work at state-of-the-art and multi-disciplinary institutions. After earning a Ph.D. ‎degree ‎from The Ohio State University (OSU) in 2009, he worked at the Vaccine Research Center ‎‎(VRC) of the National Institute of ‎Health (NIH) for over five years as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a ‎research fellow. He has excellent experience ‎in the basic and applied biomedical ‎fields, including virology, microbiology, immunology, molecular diagnostics, and vaccine ‎development. He has published more than 180 articles, some of which are in top-tier scientific ‎journals like NEJM, Nature, Nature Medicine, Cell, JAMA, AND Lancet ID. He serves on many committees at QU and other institutions around Qatar.