Luis R. Saraiva

Luis R. Saraiva is an accomplished academic and researcher currently serving as an Associate Professor Adjunct in the Comparative Medicine Department at Yale School of Medicine. With a dual role as Principal Investigator and Director of the Congenital Malformations Translational Program at Sidra Medicine in Qatar, Luis leads the Disease Modeling and Therapeutics Laboratory, focusing on the molecular mechanisms underlying neural and metabolic processes. Additional positions include Joint Associate Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, overseeing programs in Biomedical Sciences and Precision Medicine, and previous academic roles at prominent institutions such as the Monell Chemical Sciences Center and Fred Hutch. Luis has a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Cologne and is pursuing a Global MBA from Oxford Brookes University.