Prof. Omar Albagha is a Professor of Genomic and Precision Medicine at the College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), and a Principal Investigator at the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI). He received his B.Sc. in Medical Technology from the University of Jordan (1996), an M.Sc. in Medical Molecular Genetics (1997), and a Ph.D. in Genetics (Medical Sciences, 2001) from the University of Aberdeen, UK. Following postdoctoral research, he was appointed Arthritis Research UK Lecturer in Genetics of Bone Disease at Aberdeen, before moving to the University of Edinburgh in 2005 as Principal Investigator/Group Leader at the Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, where he later became Associate Director of the Paget’s Association Centre of Excellence. In 2017, he joined HBKU, where his current research focuses on genomic medicine, particularly the genetic determinants of complex diseases such as Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disorders, with active collaborations with the Qatar Genome Project.