Research Projects Effective 2019

Title	Prop Type	College	PI Name
Effect of ritual slaughter of camels on efficiency of slaughter, animal welfare and meat quality	UPAR	College of Food and Agriculture	Ahmad Al Aiyan
Determinants of Color and Bioactivity of Date Fruits (Phoenix dactylifera, L.)	UPAR	College of Food and Agriculture	Afaf Kamal Eldin
Characterization, Antioxidant, Anticancer and Immunomodulotary Activities of Exopolysaccharides (EPS) Produced by New Probiotic Bacteria and Its Rheological Impact in Camel Milk Products (Fermented Milk and Cheese)	UPAR	College of Food and Agriculture	Mutamed Ayyash
Natural Deep Eutectic Solvent based green extraction technology for recovery of polyphenolic compounds from date by-products	Center-Based-ECEER	College of Food and Agriculture	Sajid Maqsood Maqsood Ahmed
First UAE National-Representative Birth Cohort Study (UAE-BCS)	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Food and Agriculture	Ayesha Al Dhaheri
The role of RSA1 gene in improving salt and drought tolerance and growth in Date palm and Brachypodium	Center-Based-KCBG	College of Food and Agriculture	Khaled Masmoudi
Fog and Blockchain-based Solutions for IoT Security	UPAR	College of Information Technology	Zouheir Trabelsi
Cognitive training by Humanoid robot for elderly people in the UAE	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Information Technology	Fady Al Najjar
Supporting IoT Workflow enabled Health Big Data through a federated Cloud resources orchestration	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Information Technology	Mohamed Serhani
Energy-Aware Resource Allocation Model for Efficient Energy, High Performance Computing, Quality of Services, and Data Availability in Smart Cities Big Data Systems	Center-Based-ECEER	College of Information Technology	Leila Ismail
Self-Reliant Task-Oriented Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for Missions in Harsh Environment: The case of Mars	Center-Based-NSS	College of Information Technology	Abderrahmane Lakas
Secure Management of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) using Blockchains	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Information Technology	Khaled Shuaib
Mechanisms of saturated fatty acid mediated altered neurogenesis in the developing brain: role of SIRT1-LSD dependent histone modification.	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Suraiya Ansari
Characterizing infertility and its associated genital bacteria and sociodemographics in the Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates: a case-control study	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Rami AL Rifai
Health Awareness Effects on Pregnancy and Infant Outcomes: The Mother and Child Cohort Study	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Luai Ahmed
Application of Artificial Intelligence in Data Quality Management and Clinical Decision Support in the Mutaba’ah: Mother and Child Health Study	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Luai Ahmed
Functional Characterization Of the Long Non-Coding RNA UAEU-710: a positive regulator of Insulin expression and signalling	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Starling David
Delineation of the pathogenesis of LDL receptor (LDLR) variants found in Emirati patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Bassam Ali
Effects of the multi-targeting ligand ST-2223 incorporating histamine H3 receptor and dopamine D2/D3 receptor antagonist properties on BTBR T+tf/J mouse model of autistic spectrum disorder	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Bassem Sadek
Interaction of Parkinson’s disease genes, DJ-1 and Parkin, on the surface of damaged mitochondria and their role in ?-synuclein aggregation and Lewy body pathology	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Md Emdadul Haque
Modeling, simulation and experimental investigation on the absorption enhancement of carbon dioxide by various nanofluids in hollow fiber membrane contactor	UPAR	College of Engineering	Nayef Ghasem
On the Aeroelasticity of Variable Span Wings	UPAR	College of Engineering	Rafic Ajaj
Graphene - 2D heterostructures for THz applications	UPAR	College of Engineering	Amine El Moutaouakil
Selection of Innovative Materials and Smart Systems for Improving the Resilience of UAE’s Infrastructure	UPAR	College of Engineering	Aman Allah  Mwafy
Sorption of pharmaceutically active compounds to soil material in the UAE	UPAR	College of Engineering	Munjed Maraqa
Development of Predictive Models and Optimization of RUM Parameters for Hard-to-Cut Materials (POMP-RUM)	UPAR	College of Engineering	Jaber Abu Qudeiri
Measurement of groundwater contaminant flux in UAE fractured-rock aquifers	Center-Based -NWC	College of Engineering	Mohamed Mohamed
Innovating the Travel Demand Modelling: Developing the Origin-Destination Matrix With the Help of a Dedicated Mobile Application	Center-Based -RTTSRC	College of Engineering	Yaser Hawas
Reducing the Cost and Environmental Impacts of Desalination and Mitigation of Seawater Intrusion through Subsurface Intakes	Center-Based-NWC	College of Engineering	Mohsen Sherif
Production and Performance Assessment of Novel Bio-based Insulation Produced from Waste Rice	Center-Based-ECEER	College of Engineering	Maatouk Khoukhi
Investigation of solvent regeneration used in CO2 capture	Center-Based-ECEER	College of Engineering	Mohamed Al Marzooqi
Development of a Saltwater Based Powered Generator System	Center-Based-ECEER	College of Engineering	Ahmed Hassan Noor Muhammad
Encapsulation of Bioactive Molecules in MOFs for Medical Applications	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Engineering	Yaser Mohamed Greish
Stimulate Algal Biohydrogen Production by Inducing Intracellular Anaerobiosis using Coated Nanomaterials	Center-Based-NWC	College of Engineering	Ashraf Aly Hassan
Development of Novel Systems for Analytical and Applied Applications	UPAR	College of Science	Sayed Marzouk
Slow-Moving Gluons in a Quark-Gluon Plasma	UPAR	College of Science	Abdessamad Abada
Metabolomics-based analyses of a novel potential Bcl-2 inhibitor, safranal, on follicular lymphoma	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Science	Amr Fawzy
Molecular Mechanisms and Role of Camel Milk Derived Bioactive Peptides Towards Insulin and GLP-1 Receptor Activation	Center-Based-ZCHS	College of Science	Mohammed Ayoub
UAEU Radio Astronomy Pathway Project (URAPP)	Center-based-NSS	College of Science	Aquib Moin
UAEU materials science alliance on energy, environment, and sustainability proposal	Center-Based-ECEER	College of Science	Ahmed Alzamly
The birth of First Quasars and their observational signatures	UPAR	College of Science	Muhammad Abdul Latif
A deep magnetotelluric-seismic study of the UAE mountain belt: Implications for collision tectonics and ophiolite emplacement	UPAR	College of Science	Hakim Saibi
On the Unitary Groups of C*-Algebras	UPAR	College of Science	Ahmed Al Rawashdeh
Optical data processing with topological states in photonic waveguides	UPAR	College of Science	Usama Al Khawaja