Drug Design and Discovery

The Drug Design & Discovery (DD & D) research group is a model of collaboration between different fields and integrating lines of research aiming at developing new agents that can be used for management of dangerous chronic diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.

Tissue Injury and Repair Research Group

The Tissue Injury and Repair Research (TIR group) combines a multidisciplinary team interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms regulating tissue injury during chronic inflammation.

Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Research Group

The Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Research group is an interdisciplinary research group established in 2018 in RIMHS, University of Sharjah.

Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders

Diabetes and metabolic syndrome are distinctly the most important health concern of current time. Our mission is to conduct excellent multi-disciplinary research aimed to bring down diabetes mellitus and its related complications.

Human Disease Biomarkers Discovery Research Group

Biomarkers are biomolecules that are associated with or inform about physiological processes, diseases, and so on.

Rare Genetic Disorders and Immune-dysregulation Research Group

Our research group will follow a systematic approach to characterize rare genetic variations underlying primary immune deficiencies and predisposing to severe infectious disease such as COVID-19.

Gene Editing and Therapy Research Group

The long-term goals of the Gene Editing & Therapy research group are to advance biomedical research at the University of Sharjah and to develop the infrastructure and the expertise for future clinical applications involving highly promising and fast-growing gene-editing technologies.

Drug Delivery Group

The "Drug Delivery" research group seeks to find creative and innovative solutions to the current challenges limiting the therapeutic efficiency of many drugs such as low solubility, low permeability, low efficacy and high toxicity and resulting in poor patient compliance.

Biomedical and Molecular Imaging Group

One of the most important priorities facing modern societies is the well-being and health care of most people who will need advanced medical imaging services at some stage in their lives.

Operational Research and Integrated Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Our research group will be geared towards solving critical healthcare challenges by applying artificial intelligence and Decision Analysis to diseases diagnosis, therapeutics, treatment error reduction, disease treatment and management, automation of medical processes, symptoms checker, early cancer detection, and medical service delivery.

Nutrition and Food Research

The Nutrition and Food Research Group (NFRG) have an interdisciplinary oriented research approach to address pertinent food and nutrition concerns in order to improve the health of the UAE community.

Health Promotion in the UAE

The Health Promotion Research Group (HPRG) is a dedicated multidisciplinary team focusing on advancing knowledge and strategies in the field of health promotion. Our group is committed to conducting rigorous impactful research, formulating evidence-based interventions, and collaborating with various stakeholders to prevent diseases, promote health and well-being within communities and populations, and overall improve the nation's quality of life.

Improving Health Care Delivery and Medicines Use

The Research Group Improving Healthcare Delivery and Medicines Use is an interdisciplinary group created in 2016 in the University of Sharjah. It is a unique platform through which we investigate health-related issues in primary and secondary care settings.

Health Economic and Financing Group

The UAE government is committed to WHO's constitution stipulating that health is a basic right and is working towards the objectives of providing an accessible and equitable universal health care program for the country population.

Clinical Epidemiology Group

The rising problem of chronic diseases has been well documented and the burden from these diseases represent a major threat to human health and development.

Health and Workforce Studies

The Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Research group is an interdisciplinary research group established in 2018 in RIMHS, University of Sharjah.

Healthy Aging, Longevity, and Sustainability

With the progression in the Science of Aging, also known as GeroScience or Gerontology, and the concomitant rising interest in health and nutrition and their intercorrelation with aging and longevity; this interest was paralleled with the establishment of independent specialized research centers and institutions concerned with looking at the various environmental factors that lead to improving the features of life in the aging stages and increasing the chances of longevity without suffering from common chronic diseases, especially neurodegenerative ones.

Iron Biology

Iron is critical for the growth and survival of almost all cells in living organisms. Due to its ability to function as a co-factor for a wide range of proteins, iron plays a key role in cell growth, replication, and metabolism in the human body. However, excess accumulation of free iron can induce reactive oxygen species (ROS) via the Fenton reaction causing significant cellular damage, which could precipitate various pathologies including carcinogenesis. Therefore, patients suffering from diseases that associate with significant iron overload, such as hemochromatosis, are at high risk of developing various forms of cancer including those of the breast, lung, colon, prostate, rectum as well as hepatocellular carcinoma.

Environment and Cancer Research

Cancer is a group of diseases caused by a combination of genetic and environmental or behavioural factors. The Environment and Cancer Research Group seeks to investigate the role of different environmental factors and to identify novel therapeutic modalities. We intend to investigate the molecular effects of common environmental toxins on human cells, their relationship to cancer development, and the signalling pathways involved in the development of different cancers. The impact of various cancer risk factors, such as obesity and the presence of other chronic noncommunicable diseases, is also investigated. In addition, the effect of dietary chemopreventive action of some nutritional elements on cancer is being studied in our group.​

Microbiota

Diverse communities of symbiotic microorganisms, predominantly bacteria, “Microbiota”, inhabit nearly every surface of the body exposed to the environment, in particular the skin, oral, and gut epithelium. Many studies have shown that microbiota composition, in particular in the intestine, strongly influences disease susceptibility. This applies to multiple infl​ammatory, metabolic, infectious, and neurodegenerative diseases. The Microbiota group plan to establish the infrastructure required to perform state of the art analysis of the microbiome at the University of Sharjah. In parallel the group will establish a collaborative network of clinicians, microbiologists, geneticists and bioinformaticians. The primary objective is to study the role of Microbiota in the pathogenesis of common diseases in the UAE. Additionally, will study the influence of the host genome on the composition of skin, oral a​nd gut microbiota and how gene-microbiota interactions contribute to the pathogenesis of these diseases. Eventually we aim to identify defined bacterial "probiotic" species and their products for therapy of common diseases in the UAE.

Infectious Disease and Anti-Infective Therapy

Infectious diseases continue to be among the most serious public health problems around the world and UAE mainly because of (i) There is no updated surveillance systems maintained in large parts of the world in particular the developing countries, (ii) International travel and migration in the Gulf region, and (iii) Numerous outbreaks of drug- resistant microbes were documented around the world. Therefore, our group has been established in 2017 to provide the community with accurate data and complimentary information in relation to infectious diseases with special focus on the UAE.

Immuno-Oncology

The “Immuno-Oncology" group is a unique research group in the UAE that focuses on understanding the cancer microenvironment and in particular, the crosstalk between immune and tumor cells. Additionally, our group focuses on the epigenetic regulation of carcinogenesis, as well as the therapeutic targeting of autoimmune diseases.

Cardiovascular Research Group

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading causes of morbidity and/or mortality in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and, worldwide. Despite therapeutic advancement, the frequency of CVDs including vascular dysfunction, ischemic and hypertensive cardiac diseases are increasing at an alarming rate, largely due to lack of awareness and sedentary lifestyle.

Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatry

The mission of the Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatry Research Group is to join the global efforts to promote neuroscience and neuropsychiatry research and to enhance the awareness of the neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders in the local community.

Emerging Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance

Wound Healing & Oral Diagnosis Research Group

Oral and craniofacial wound healing and oral Diagnostics is a very interesting and challenging area of dental science. Researching into the basic biological processes of oral regeneration often create more questions than answers and invites a cluster of a multidisciplinary team involving biochemist, pharmacist, pathologist, dentists, surgeons, nurses as well as researchers in oral medicine and biology to search for evidence in wound healing mechanism and its management. The fundamental concept under investigation is “how does bone and soft tissue heal"?

Dental Biomaterials

Dental Biomaterials and Biomimetics Research Group is a newly established interdisciplinary research group at the University of Sharjah, College of Dental Medicine and Research Institute For Medical and Health Sciences.

Neuromusculoskeletal Rehabilitation group

The Neuromusculoskeletal Rehabilitation group has a primary objective: to advance the assessment and treatment of musculoskeletal and neurological conditions in various populations, including athletes, individuals with spinal pain, and the elderly who are frail.

Space Medicine

The space medicine group comprises a multi-disciplinary team to investigate the deleterious effects of space environment on human body. We use in-vitro and in-vivo models to dissect the mechanisms governing the pathological processes in conditions mimicking space-like environment.