​Dr Malak Abed AlThagafi is an American board certified physician-scientist in Clinical Pathology, Anatomical Pathology, Neuropathology, and Molecular Genetics Pathology. She studied and worked in world renowned universities like Georgetown, University of California San Francisco, Stanford, Johns Hopkins and Harvard. She is a national and international awards winner in her field and published over 100 original and conferences papers. She is selected in 2018 and 2019 as one of the most powerful people around the globe in Pathology and lab medicine by the British pathologist magazine. Currently, She is the director and primary investigator of the Saudi Human genome lab at King Fahad medical city (KFMC) in Riyadh, Assistant research professor at King Abdulaziz city of science and technology (KACST) and founder of CID ( Genomic Startup Company) . Her hope is to improve the application of personalized medicine and targeted therapy.