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OMRC 2020

25th January 2020
OMRC 2020 was held at Merton College, Oxford University on the 25th of January 2020.

The conference welcomed over 150 students and researchers from across the UK. We were delighted to be joined by Dr Jonathan Brown (Georgetown University) and Dr Usaama Al-Azami (Oxford University) who gave two contrasting keynote lectures on the crucial topic of why Muslims need Academia and vice versa.
Keynote Lectures

Dr Jonathan Brown, Georgetown- 'Why Academia Needs Muslims' 
Dr Usaama Al-Azami, Oxford- 'Why Muslims Need Academia' - 

Research Presentations

Natural Sciences

Prof Afaf El-Sagheer, Oxford- "Extending the Boundaries of Nucleic Acids from Chimistry to Applications"
Imran Naved, Oxford- "Developing Next Generation Active Cooling Systems for Hypersonic Spaceplanes"
Dr Amir Zayegh, Oxford- "Defining Suffering in Infants and Young Children: A Multilevel View"
Abdulkhaliq Alsaadi, Oxford- "Identification and Characterisation of Fallopian Tube Stem Cells using Patient-derived Oraganoids"


Humanities/Social Sciences
AbdelKader El Alaoui, Oxford- "Shari'ah Screening, Market Rish and Contagion: A Multi-country Analysis"
Iman Masmoudi, Harvard- "The Broken Chain: Understanding the Modern Crisis of Islam through the rupture of Traditional Education"
Saquib Hussein, Oxford- "The Quranic Decalogue"
Dr Suriyah Bi, UCL- "Experiences of Muslim Students during Trojan Horse Affair Scandal"

Panel Discussions
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'Insights Into Academia' - Dr Mohamady El-Gaby, Prof Afaf El-Sagheer, Dr Wahbi El-Bouri, Dr Asli Kalin, Prof Masooda Bano, Karim El-Mehairy, Dr Muhammad Meki, Dr Usaama Al-Azami

Poster & Networking Session

An extended session where over 18 young researchers presented posters on their work as well as an opportunity for researchers to network.
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