Personalized Food Intervention and Therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorder Management / Advances in Neurobiology Bd.24 (PDF)

Further, in 2010, Dr. Essa received the Professional from Developing Country Award from IMFAR, USA. In 2009 and he was awarded ASN Young Investigator Educational Enhancement Award (ASN-YIEE-2009).






He has over 15 years of research and teaching experience and till now he has received many research grants from local and international agencies in the area of Neuropharmacology and nutritional neurosciences (approximately 1.31 million USD). He has guided 3 PhD students and 9 master students. Currently he is guiding 2 PhD students in the area of Nutritional Neuroscience.




Dr. M. Walid Qoronfleh, Ph.D., MBA, is currently the Director of Healthcare Research and Policy at Qatar Foundation-World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH). Dr. Qoronfleh leads the WISH Doha-based research unit which is engaged in research areas that are of immediate global and local healthcare relevance to Qatar. The research is undertaken with a view to positively impacting health policy. These areas include autism, mental health, dementia, patient safety, non-communicable diseases (cancer, diabetes & obesity), precision medicine and bioethics.



Immediately prior to WISH, Walid was the Biotechnology Development Director at Hamad Bin Khalifa University - Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (HBKU-QBRI). Dr. Qoronfleh has over 20 years of scientific, technology, business, and commercial experience. He has held several senior management and executive positions with increasing responsibilities at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Sanofi, US National Institutes of Health-National Cancer Institute (NIH-NCI), ThermoFisher, NextGen Sciences (VP, Personalized Medicine) and SDIX (Executive Director, Diagnostics business, Nasdaq: SDIX) and Executive Director & PI at The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Dr. Qoronfleh has been awarded two pioneering grants. As a PI at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor he was awarded $3.2M to build a state-wide medical research infrastructure by The Michigan Development Economic Corporation (MEDC). Previously, while at ThermoFisher-Senior Director R&D, as a co-applicant (co-PI/Investigator) he was awarded a 7-year NIH grant with the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) to establish a proteomic center ($16.0M).





Dr. Qoronfleh is also involved on different levels in Government-University-Industry partnerships through research, technology and commercialization as well as higher education, research capacity building and grant program management. Dr. Qoronfleh brings expertise in economic development and business improvement in knowledge-based economy (Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Innovation) where he also lectures locally and at HEC Paris in Qatar. Dr. Qoronfleh was an active member of the Arab Expatriate Scientists group in Qatar. He is also one of the main co-authors for the planning document for the establishment of Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), which was developed in collaboration with leading Arab expatriate scientists and scientists in Qatar (2007-2008).



Dr. Qoronfleh is the founder of three biotechnology companies in the USA (HT Expression, Q-Pharma & Minerva Bioscience), and he is a co-founder and the managing director of the US-based boutique consulting company Q3CG. Dr. Qoronfleh has published over 100 combined peer reviewed abstracts and papers. He is also an editor and an ad hoc reviewer for various scientific journals plus a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. He holds post-graduate degrees from The University of Louisville-School of Medicine, Penn State University, and The University of Wisconsin-Madison.