Dr. Radja Badji

Dr. Radja Badji has more than fifteen years of international experience working closely with clinicians and scientists in academia and hospitals in the domain of biomedical informatics. She holds a computer engineering degree from Algeria, a Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in clinical informatics from the University of Joseph Fourier, and a Master’s of public health from Lille University in France. Before joining QGP, she was a postdoctoral fellow for four years at the Center of Medical Informatics in Lille. She participated in many national and European projects related to knowledge representation, biomedical data analysis, and data governance during that period. Later, she was appointed as a postdoctoral fellow at Sidra Medical and Research center in Qatar. The objective of her research was to develop methods for efficient data integration between genomic and phenotypic data and models for data sharing in the biomedical domain. Dr. Radja Badji joined Qatar Genome Program (QGP) as a scientist in January 2017 and now is the manager of genome operations, where she coordinates between the different stakeholders of the program and plays a central role in the development of the QChip and other custom arrays and champions their implementation in clinical and research applications.