Dr. Fadwa Aljoud

Dr. Fadwa Aljoud is Manager of the Innovation Center at Dar Al-Hekma University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia's first private university for women, where she oversees innovation and entrepreneurship programming including the university's CODE Lab, established under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology's national innovation network. She holds a PhD in Biology (Genetics) from King Abdulaziz University, awarded in 2024, and her research career bridges molecular genetics, biotechnology and biomedical innovation. Her published work spans cancer therapeutics, biomarker discovery, marine-derived natural compounds, nanocomposite materials and stem cell research, with a focus on breast and hepatic cancers. She is a co-inventor on a granted United States patent covering chicken cathelicidin peptides as a cancer therapy, assigned to King Abdulaziz University. She served on the steering committee and as a panel moderator for CCTS 2025, Dar Al-Hekma's international conference on creativity, technology and sustainability.