Dr. Raham Nazzal, Associate Professor at the Arab American University Basic Medical Sciences Unit, received the Zamalah Fellowship presented by the Bank of Palestine to finish her scientific research entitled “Clinical Application of Modern Human Genome Analysis Techniques to Investigate the Molecular Causes of Common Genetic Diseases in Palestine.”
Dr. Nazzal said she will make her research at the Arab American University advanced genetic laboratories in its Ramallah campus, and the research will be continued at the British University of Exeter Medical School and its university hospital.
The Arab American University and German Academic Exchange Service DAAD held a lecture to introduce the foundations offered scholarships for graduate studies at German and Jordanian university, attended by the University VP for Training Affairs Dr. Nizam Diab, a number of the administrative and faculty members and university students.
Dr. Diab started the lecture by stressing on the relationship between the university and the DAAD Foundation in the area of offered scholarships to university students and its teaching and administrative staff to complete their postgraduate studies in German and Jordanian universities. Noting that the university, its employees and students benefit annually from these scholarships in many distinguished strategic disciplines, as well as research visits.
Chairman of the Arab American University Board of Directors Dr. Yousef Asfour, announced an annual grant of $ 5,000 to support the university needy students fund.
It was during a meeting that gathered the University President Dr. Ali Zidan Abu Zuhri, VP for Administrative and Financial Affairs Mr. Faleh Abu Arra, member of the University Directors Board Mr. Bahaa Asfour, and the Head of the Student Council Ali Kameel and members of the council.