Riad Bayoumi was educated in Khartoum and the UK. He has made important contributions to human genetics research in the Sudan, UAE and Oman. In the study of genetic diseases he was instrumental in mapping of Joubert Syndrome, Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia and Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia. He is currently involved in the study of genetic susceptibility to obesity, diabetes mellitus and the evolution of lactase persistence among large extended Arab pedigrees.
Academic Appointments
Professor of Biochemistry
Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE
Chairman, Basic Medical Sciences Department
Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE
Chairman, Clinical Biochemistry Department
College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Professor of Biochemistry
United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Assistant, Associate and Full Professor
University of Khartoum, Sudan
Professional Education
MB BS.
University of Khartoum, Sudan.
PhD (Biochemistry),
London University.
MRCPath
Royal College of Pathologists, UK.
FRCPath
Royal College of Pathologists, UK.
Teaching
Teaching Clinical Biochemistry and Genetics to undergaduate and postgraduate students over 30 years.
Honors and Awards
Assessor of Third World Academy of Sciences Prize
in Medical Sciences.
Fellowship of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
Fellowship
Deutcher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Visiting Scientist
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Danish Medical Research Council Visiting Scientist
University Hospital, Copenhagen
Wellcome Trust, UK. Senior Visiting Scientist
University of Edinburgh, UK
International Atomic Energy Agency Fellow
Cairo, Egypt
U.S. Public Health Service Research Fellow
National Institute of Health; NIH, Michigan State University, USA
International Atomic Energy Agency Fellow
Radioimmunoassay, Berlin, Germany
World Health Organization Fellow
Medical Education Centre, Dundee, Scotland
Publications
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
- The World Academy of Sciences.
- Biochemical Society, U.K.
- Royal College of Pathology, U.K.
- Sudanese Association of Biochemists, Khartoum.
- Sudanese Association of Pathologists, Khartoum.
- British Society for Parasitology.
- African Soceity for Human Genetics.
- Center of Arab Genomic Studies [CAGS], Sheikh Hamdan Prize, Dubai.
Research interests
- Genetic Mapping: Mapping of single gene disorders and multifactional disease such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity.
- Disease Associations: Differential susceptibility of individuals to Cardiometabolic diseases.
- Population Genetics : Blood genetic markers among different ethnic groups. Abnormal haemoglobins. DNA polymorphisms as applied to haemoglobinopathies, antigenic diversity of plasmodia.
- Phylogenetics of Lactase persistence among various ethnic groups.
Clinical and Community Service
- Hospital Clinical Biochemistry Service in Sudan and Oman.
- Adminstration and Service in 3 universities.
- Community service in 3 countries; Sudan, UAE and Oman.
