Dr. Allal Ouhtit is a Professor of Biology and Functional Genomics within the Department of Biological and 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 a 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 a Full Professor in Genetics. 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 his paper published in the journal Science.