Allal Ouhtit

Affiliation: Biological Sciences Program, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar
Institution: Qatar University
ORCID: 0000-0002-2455-5014
External IDs: ResearcherID: N-4727-2014
Works: 65, Cited by: 789, H-index: 23
Dr. Allal Ouhtit is a Professor of Biology and Functional Genomics within the Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences at Qatar University. Dr. Ouhtit graduated from University Claude Bernard Lyon-I, France, with a PhD in Molecular/Cell Biology in 1995. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (World Health Organization). He joined the MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, in Houston. In 2001, he was Lecturer at Queens University of Belfast, United Kingdom. In 2005, he joined the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and Stanley S Scott Cancer Center in New Orleans as a Principal Investigator. In 2009, he became the Head of Department of Genetics at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman and was promoted to Full Professor in 2014. The research of Dr. Ouhtit is mainly focused on identifying and validating genes and novel pathways that underpin the process of breast cancer cell invasion and metastasis. He has published several papers in high impact journals, including an article in Science in 1999.

Education

  • PhD in Molecular/Cell Biology, University Claude Bernard Lyon-I, France (1995-)

Research Interests

Keywords:
Biology Functional Genomics Breast Cancer Cell Invasion Metastasis
Topics:
Biology Functional Genomics Breast Cancer Cell Invasion Metastasis

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