Yousef Aleneze

Program Officer - Collaborative Research Unit, Research Directorate

Biography

Yousef Aleneze graduated with BSc in Bioinformatics from Loyola University Chicago, in which he focussed on evolutionary phylogenetics of HIV-1 to identify potential RNAi targets, before pursuing joining the Research Directorate at KFAS. Recently, he completed his MSc degree in Biotechnology from the University of Glasgow in which his thesis under the supervision of Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute and Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre Institute revolved around a pre-clinical drug target validation study on primary brain cancer stem cells that were surgically resected from patients.