New research projects at Weill Cornell Medicine

Fifty-five first-year pre-medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar presented their research projects that they conducted as part of the Biology Lab course on the antimicrobial effects of a number of natural substances during this year’s Science Poster Session. In small groups of two or three students, students reviewed published research literature and prepared research proposals with faculty supervision, before conducting practical experiments in the laboratory. Then, the students presented and discussed the research results in front of their colleagues and faculty members in the framework of the scientific poster session. The research projects were completed over two semesters and resulted in 19 research poster presentations. In this context, students Yaqoub Jassim Al-Jaidah, Obeida Al-Ani and Mira Abbasi presented a poster on the inhibitory effect of Cambodian Oud oil on two types of bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus and Corynebacterium amyculolatum.