Fowzan Alkurayan graduated with first class honor and was the valedictorian of his class at the College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  He did his pediatric residency at Georgetown University Hospital, followed by a fellowship in clinical genetics and another in molecular genetics at Harvard Medical School.  He also did a postdoctoral research fellowship in the area of developmental genetics in the lab of Prof. Richard Maas at Harvard Medical School.  He returned to his native Saudi Arabia to establish the Developmental Genetics Lab, and later the Mendelian Genomics Program at KFSHRC.  He is an authority in the area of Mendelian genetics with more than 320 published manuscripts that describe his lab's discovery of hundreds of novel disease genes in humans.  He is a frequently invited speaker at local, regional and international conferences, on the editorial board of prominent human genetics journals, and the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including William King Bowes Award in Medical Genetics and King Salman Award for Disability Research.​