Walaa Essam Kattan

Dr. Walaa Kattan is an Associate Research Scientist at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center and an Assistant Professor at the College of Medicine in Alfaisal University. Her research has focused on cancer drug discovery and therapies, and she is currently developing precision diagnostic tools and personalized treatments for various cancer types.

Cancer Biology.

Molecular Oncology.

Precision Medicine.

Biomarker and Drug Discovery.

Dr. Kattan holds a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology (Clinical and Translational Oncology) from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA, and a Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences with a concentration in Molecular Genetics from Alfaisal University in Riyadh.

She previously worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she contributed to developing innovative methods for single-cell genomic data analysis.

She has published extensively in high-impact peer-reviewed journals and received several fellowships, including the Ibn Khaldun Fellowship for Saudi Arabian Women from King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and MIT, and the Ibn Rushd Fellowship from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).