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Dr. Al-Kafaji is an Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics in the Department of Molecular Medicine and the Director of Personalized Medicine Master Program at the College of Medicine . She obtained her MSC degree in Molecular Biology from Baghdad University in Iraq, and her PhD degree in Molecular Genetics from King's College London, University of London, UK. In the U.K, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Medicine, King's College London, and as an Assistant Professor in Molecular Genetics at the College of Science, University College Kensington. Dr. Al-Kafaji is involved in lecturing and tutoring of undergraduate and graduate students and supervising graduate theses. Her research interest includes genetic variations of complex diseases, novel biomarkers for cancer prediction and other complex diseases. She has abundant publications in the area of molecular genetics that have been cited over 200 times.