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Chaker Adra
Principal Scientist and Director,
Stem Cell Therapy Program, Research Centre,
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Saudi Arabia |
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Biosketch:
Dr. Chaker Adra is the Director of The Stem Cell Therapy Program at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Chaker Adra is a geneticist, biochemist, molecular and cellular biologist investigating the biology of hematopoiesis, cancer, and the mechanisms of stem cell cycle regulation. Since his childhood, he has been interested in discovering the Laws of Physics and Chemistry as manifested in The Language of Genomes and in Living Organisms. In a series of groundbreaking experiments, he discovered several universal gene families and biochemical and physiological pathways operating in yeast, plants, animals and humans. He cloned and characterized the family of the phosphoglycerate kinase genes and pseudogenes. He identified the phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) promoter and constructed the PGK Neo Vector. The PGK-Neo Cassette is being used around the world for gene therapy, to engineer transgenic and knockout animals. Almost all laboratories and pharmaceutical companies are engineering mice using the PGK-Neo Cassette to understand the causes of human diseases and find cures for genetic, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, renal, liver and autoimmune diseases, diabetes and cancer. Most recently he discovered several new cancer and stem cell specific biomarkers. He is the inventor of twelve USA and International Patents. |
