Pierre A. Zalloua PhD

Dr. Pierre Zalloua is one of the most prominent scientists in the Middle East. An accomplished human population geneticist, he is a leading authority in the field of genetics studying Near Eastern populations with more than 120 peer reviewed publications. Some of his work has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic and most major international media outlets.

Having spent more than a decade working at various American institutions, he returned to his Lebanese homeland where he is perfectly placed to observe science, genetics in particular, in the Middle East from both near and far. Dr. Pierre Zalloua earned his Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California, Davis in 1996. He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in population genetics at the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health before he started his academic career at the American University of Beirut as an assistant professor.