{"id":3458,"date":"2020-05-04T13:53:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T13:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2020-05-04T13:53:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T13:53:49","slug":"dr-khaled-alkattan-and-dr-mohammad-zourob-are-among-moh-research-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/en\/dr-khaled-alkattan-and-dr-mohammad-zourob-are-among-moh-research-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Khaled AlKattan and Dr. Mohammad Zourob are among MOH &#8220;Research Heroes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its remarkable efforts to fight the COVID19 pandemic, the Saudi Ministry of Health has launched an urgent a COVID19 research competition in the 17th of March 2020, to cover areas related to awareness, readiness, prevention and treatment of the emerging virus.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry invited medical researches across the Kingdom to submit proposals in eight COVID19 related categories which are: virulence and source of infection, clinical management, prevention measures, long-term goals, ethical and social considerations, diagnosis and pathological changes and laboratory tests, epidemiology, and treatments &amp; economic impact on the health system.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Khaled Alkattan, Dean of College of Medicine and Alfaisal University&#8217;s VP for Finance submitted a proposal entitled &#8220;Screening immune responses against COVID-19 as a rapid diagnostic measure and a pathway to a potential curetitle&#8221; in the category of fast diagnosis, and in the same category, Dr. Mohammed Zourob, Professor of Chemistry at Alfaisal University College of Science submitted a proposal entitled &#8221;Novel Low-Cost and Rapid biosensor for the detection of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>An official press release was made on the 13th of April 2020 to announce a 33 &#8220;Researches Heroes&#8221; who were awarded this Urgent COVID19 Research Grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its remarkable efforts to fight the COVID19 pandemic, the Saudi Ministry of Health has launched an urgent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"college-department":[{"term_id":14,"name":"College of Medicine","slug":"college-of-medicine","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":14,"taxonomy":"college-department","description":"","parent":0,"count":363,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":13,"name":"College of Science","slug":"college-of-science","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":13,"taxonomy":"college-department","description":"","parent":0,"count":58,"filter":"raw"}],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovations","college-department-college-of-medicine","college-department-college-of-science"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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