Saudi scientist.

She is a Senior Cancer Research Scientist at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre , and Director of the Research Centre at King Fahad National Centre for Children's Cancer and Research at the same hospital since 2005.

She has also been a professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Center at Harvard University in the United States of America since October 2019, and a lecturer at the College of Medicine at Alfaisal University .

She is a member of several councils and committees, including:

• American Society for Genetics.
• American Association for Cancer Research.
• American Canadian Academy of Pathology.
• Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical Genetics.
• Editorial Board of the World Journal of Medical Genetics (WJMG).
• National Geographic Magazine Advisory Board.

She joined the Research Center at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center as a research scientist and associate consultant, establishing a research program to identify the genetic signature of tumors in the Kingdom, and was appointed as a senior scientist and clinical consultant in 2002.

She was a member of the Saudi Shura Council between 2013 and 2017.

She was the first Saudi woman to receive the King Abdulaziz Medal of the First Class in 2010, and in 2007 she won the Harvard Award for Academic Excellence.

She has more than 120 accredited scientific research papers, and nearly 300 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed medical journals.

She holds a PhD in Cancer Genetics from the National Cancer Institute in the United States of America, an American Board Certificate in Pathology from Georgetown University in the United States of America, and a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and General Surgery from King Saud University .