Fowzan S Alkuraya is the Chief Medical and Genomics Officer of Lifera Omics, a Professor of Human Genetics at Alfaisal University and an Adjunct Principal Scientist at the Center for Genomic Medicine at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center. He joined medical school (King Saud University) before turning 15 and graduated first in his class with first class honor. 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, which later evolved into the Center for Genomic Medicine at KFSHRC before he moved to Lifera Omics to help expand access and implementation of Precision Medicine. He is an authority in the area of Mendelian genetics with more than 600 published manuscripts that describe his lab’s discovery of hundreds of novel disease genes in humans as well as many other seminal contributions to the field of human genetics as featured in profiles published by The Lancet and Science. 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 (first non-US based winner), King Salman Award for Disability Research, ASHG Curt Stern Award (first non-US based winner), Sheikh Hamdan Award, and Kuwait Award.
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