Bio-Hackathon MENA 2023

As a clinician Professor/Dr. Al-Aqeel is the first Saudi Geneticist and Metabolist in Saudi Arabia. For the last 30 years she has founded and established both the clinical and laboratory services for inherited Neurometabolic Genetic Disorders at the Prince Sultan Military Medical City, She is currently following approximately 2,000 patients with various genetic disorders.  Her service is the second referral service in the Kingdom for various hospitals in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Countries and other parts of the World. She has described several new Saudi variants of neurometabolic genetic disorders, found the molecular defect, and described new modalities for treating them; this work was published in Nature Genetics, Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Lancet among others, She also has established and founded with other colleagues the newborn screening pilot program in Saudi Arabia.

She has presented over 150 papers to National and International meetings, been invited to teach and lecture to several Universities and conferences including: Harvard Medical School; North Western University; Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Yale University; University of California, Irvine, USA; Ain Shams University, Egypt; American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Damascus University, Syria; Kuwait; University First International Congress of Women in Science, Morocco; World Health Organization Geneva among others.