Translational Medical Science
As seen in recent trends, lung diseases affect over 500 million people worldwide, killing over 10 million people a year. As a method for early detection, this project aimed to design and tes…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cardiovascular Diseases are conditions which block blood transportation to bodily organs. Using an online dataset and machine learning methods, it was tested how heart diseases can be predic…
Translational Medical Science
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a condition with high global prevalence. At least 75% of deaths from CAD occur in low- and middle-income countries due to the lack of predictive expertise be…
Translational Medical Science
This project exemplifies the integration of regular Cancer testing panels via a comparison of detection in various tactics. My primary question is how the medical industry can identify pancr…
Translational Medical Science
Cardiovascular diseases are among the most common illnesses globally, causing approximately 32% of deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization. In Palestine, the mortality ra…
Translational Medical Science
Crohn’s Disease is an autoimmune, inflammatory bowel disorder affecting millions of people globally, characterized by symptoms such as abdominal pain, vomiting, bloating and diarrhea. Curren…
Translational Medical Science
CervNet represents a significant innovation in the automated diagnosis of Cervical Spondylosis, a degenerative condition affecting the cervical spine that impacts over 85% of individuals age…
Translational Medical Science
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths, and early detection is critical. However, traditional pathology is time-consuming, expensive, and dependent on subject…
Translational Medical Science
Oral cancer kills over 300,000 lives across the world every year, and oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a dominant type of oral cancer. Current diagnosis steps for OSCC typically involv…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cells and Bispecific T Cell Engagers (BiTEs) have revolutionized the treatment of relapsed/refractory hematologic cancers. However, there are no head-to-hea…
Translational Medical Science
Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory disorder affecting over 125 million individuals worldwide, characterized by keratinocyte hyperproliferation and dysregulated inflammatory…
Translational Medical Science
Malaria is a devastating disease that kills over half a million people annually. Research shows the Plasmodium falciparum protozoan disrupts iron regulation by degrading ferroportin, allowin…
Translational Medical Science
This project presents the development of three AI-powered diagnostic tools capable of identifying malaria, leukemia, and anemia from peripheral blood smear (PBS) images using convolutional n…
Translational Medical Science
Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC), responsible for over 90% of pancreatic cancer cases, remains one of the most lethal cancers due to stage IV diagnosis and five-year survival rate of…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) as the most common type. HCC shows disparities across race, gender, and ethnic…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, and is responsible for a third of deaths worldwide. Most cardiovascular disease is caused by the accu…
Translational Medical Science
Pancreatic cancer is the “king of cancer” due to its aggressiveness and high lethality. Although it ranks 9th in incidence, it is the 4th leading cause of cancer-related death, and is projec…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Thyroid cancer (TC) is the fastest-growing cancer worldwide, with non-cancerous thyroid tumors affecting 60% of the population. Current methods for detecting TC are often radioactive or high…
Translational Medical Science
Oncolytic measles virus (MV) strains can be engineered to express therapeutic transgenes and are currently undergoing clinical trials for cancer treatment. Detecting MV infection in tumor ti…
Translational Medical Science
The CDC and WHO report around 650,000 Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ng) infections in the U.S and more than 80 million worldwide. Current diagnostic methods for Ng, mainly nucleic acid amplificatio…
Translational Medical Science
Radiation exposure globally results in 2-3 million skin cancers annually. This project proposed an alternative non-synthetic, environmentally safe, multifunctional UV filter. Preliminary res…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
As neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s affect over 70 million individuals, it is crucial to investigate modifiable lifestyle factors such as diet and circadian rhythm patterns to…
Translational Medical Science
The issue of mental health misdiagnosis, affecting more than a third of patients with severe psychiatric disorders (39.16%) according to the National Institute of Health, calls for urgent ac…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Nicotine addiction is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports approximately 23.6 million Americans have a nicotine use disorder.…
Translational Medical Science
Diabetes Mellitus is a growing global epidemic, affecting over 500 million people worldwide. The condition is characterized by insulin resistance- failure of body’s cells to respond effectiv…
Translational Medical Science
Autoimmune diseases affect millions worldwide, yet many are difficult to diagnose due to biological complexity and variability across patients. I developed a computational pipeline to addres…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Beta-carotene is found in most living organisms and contributes to the red, orange, and yellow coloration in various life forms. In humans, beta-carotene is converted into vitamin A, which p…
Translational Medical Science
Purpose: Understanding the coordination of glucose metabolism across brain regions can provide insights into energy distribution in cerebral function. This study aims to explore the interreg…
Translational Medical Science
Conventional methods for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) early diagnosis are often considered not cost-effective and sometimes invasive. Although recent AD studies focus on blood biomarker-based me…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Long Covid (LC) is a condition that can occur after Sars-Cov-2 infection or as a result of vaccinations (Post-Covid Vaccination Syndrome (PCVS)). There is a wide range of over 200 registered…