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Dr. Nadia Akawi is a member of both the British Society for Genetic Medicine and the American Heart Association. She has an extensive publication record in prominent international scientific journals, including Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, and Science, with 89 documents published, an h-index of 26, an i10-index of 39, and 3,551 citations according to Google Scholar. She was awarded more than 10 Grants.

Over the years, she has worked in the UAE and the UK, analyzing genomic data from thousands of families with children exhibiting severe, undiagnosed developmental disorders, uncovering underlying genetic abnormalities. Her research later expanded to include Omics data analysis, providing novel insights into the causes and predictors of cardiovascular diseases and associated metabolic risk factors such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension.

In 2020, Dr. Akawi rejoined UAE University as a faculty member in the Department of Genetics and Genomics at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is currently the director of the Master's program in Genomic Medicine, the coordinator of three courses, and the co-coordinator of three others. Additionally, she lectures in eight undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and has supervised approximately 26 students in research projects.

Her goals are to employ her extensive expertise in translational medical research to develop her research group and train enthusiastic students at UAE University. She aims to teach them how to use large-scale genomics and functional genomics to gain causal insights into the biological basis of human diseases, identify new disease biomarkers, and discover drug targets.