Dr Abouelhoda is currently leading the bioinformatics team of the Saudi Human Genome Program. He has been an Associate Professor of bioinformatics at Cairo and Nile University. Dr. Abouelhoda studied in Bielefeld and Ulm Universities in Germany and obtained his PhD in 2005 from Bielefeld University. Dr. Abouelhoda has been part of many international projects and continuous reviewers for journals and conferences in the field. He has been also awarded many academic and industrial awards/funds during his career.