Dr. Mohamed El-Hadidi

Dr. Mohamed El-Hadidi is Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Director of the MSc Bioinformatics Programme at the Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham Dubai. He has 20years of experience across biotechnology, computational biology, and bioinformatics, with expertise in metagenomics, microbiome analysis, antimicrobial resistance, multi-omics integration,and AI-enabled genomic analysis. He is Principal Investigator of PREVENT-DXB, a Dubai Future Foundation RDI-funded project developing AI- and bioinformatics-driven environmental surveillance at Dubai International Airport. He coordinates a multidisciplinary collaboration spanning academic research, microbiology, public health, and policing, with the partner institutions and named collaborators acknowledged in this document. His contribution centres on translating complex genomic data into intelligence that can support early warning, public hea