Dr. Maryam Matar, Founder & Chairperson of UAE Genetic Diseases Association (UAEGDA), shares with us insights and motivation, focusing on the challenges faced by women in education and career progression.


She has been ranked 83 of the list of "100 most powerful Arab woman" launched by the magazine "Arabian Business" in 2012 and the first Emirati powerful woman and fourth on the Arab world in science for 2012. Dr. Maryam was selected by the Arab League's Scientific and Humanitarian Development Program of the Arab Women Organization (AWO) 2012-2013 as an Ambassador of Goodwill for Women and Children in the Arab world.

She is currently finishing her PHD Research in common blood Genetics disease in UAE from Yamaguchi University in Japan, with 11,380 samples from the U.A.E. Nationals, and hopes to achieve even more success in collecting evidence based data & statistics about prevalence genetic diseases throughout the UAE.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx