Qatar : Sidra Medical and Research Center.

**Bubblegum Crisis** · 04-29-2012 05:28 PM

Memo significant : All these places of education and research centers are pooled for all GCC members.

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Recherche sur le diabète : Sanofi s'allie avec le Qatar

L'émirat investit 2,8 % de son PIB dans la recherche et la formation, en particulier dans le domaine médical. Le laboratoire français a fait du diabète l'un de ses «piliers de croissance».

Le diabète rapproche Sanofi-Aventis et le Qatar. Le laboratoire tricolore et la Qatar Foundation ont conclu il y a quelques semaines un accord de recherche sur l'utilisation de cellules souches dans le traitement du diabète. Plusieurs dizaines de millions d'euros et une vingtaine de scientifiques seront affectés à ces travaux sur la nouvelle pandémie du 21ème siècle. Le diabète figure parmi les principaux pôles de développement de Sanofi, qui entend devenir leader mondial sur ce marché.

Le sixième laboratoire mondial a d'ailleurs conclu, le 24 mars, un énième partenariat sur ce thème avec le centre médical de l'université de Colombia à New York. «Le diabète est également un sujet fondamental pour le Qatar», explique le docteur Abdelali Haoudi, vice-président en charge de la division recherche de la Qatar Foundation. La maladie affecte déjà plus de 12% de la population du Golfe, ce qui représente une emprise deux fois plus élevée que dans le reste du monde.

Chacun des partenaires innove avec cet accord. Sanofi signe là son premier projet de recherche au Moyen-Orient et la Qatar Foundation son premier accord avec un grand groupe pharmaceutique. Mais la santé est loin d'être un univers nouveau pour ce petit état de 1,8 million d'habitants, qui entend utiliser la manne issue du gaz naturel et du pétrole pour se transformer en société basée sur la connaissance (« knowledge based society »).

Le Qatar affecte 2,8% de son PIB, 3,5 milliards de dollars l'an dernier, à la formation et à la recherche dans trois grands domaines: l'informatique, l'énergie et, surtout, la santé. La Qatar Foundation a déjà mis 7,9 milliards de dollars à la disposition du centre hospitalier académique Sidra et un pôle d'accueil des biotechs a vu le jour fin 2009.

Le Qatar National Research Fund, autre émanation de la fondation du petit émirat a investi 230 millions de dollars en trois ans pour financer près de 80 centres et instituts de recherche publics et privés à travers le monde. Enfin, la première biobanque de la région, c'est-à-dire un centre de stockages d'échantillons biologiques, vient de voir le jour à Doha.

Par Armelle Bohineust

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Sidra Medical and Research Center

A high-tech teaching medical center initiated by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah will offer world-class clinical care, medical training and biomedical research in Qatar.

Part of the Qatar Foundation's ambitious Education City project, the medical center will serve as a primary teaching venue for Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. Sidra will achieve the highest international standards in patient care, teaching and research.

Within the new facility, the research agenda will incorporate clinical and translational studies (1). A major focus will be women's and children's health, as well as other issues affecting Qatar's general population such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity.

The medical center will incorporate the most sophisticated digital technology, from basic administrative functions to the assembly and application of genetic coding in high-level research.
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, already training students in Education City, will be responsible for the clinical teaching and will also be involved in the research conducted in the medical center.

Working with Sidra and Weill Cornell will be Hamad Medical Corporation, the major public healthcare provider in Doha. As academic affiliates of Weill Cornell, Sidra and Hamad Medical Corporation will develop an affiliation and partnership to capitalize and maximize research programs and skills to benefit patients and staff in Qatar's public health system.

The medical center will also represent a significant expansion of Qatar's expertise and resources in medicine and research. It will attract leading scientists and physicians from around the world, creating a biomedical knowledge base which can be exported to the world at large.

Funded by the Qatar Foundation, a commitment of US $ 7.9 billion has been made to endow the medical center, the largest cash endowment of a medical and research center anywhere in the world.

Scheduled to open in late 2010, Sidra marks only the beginning of a program of investment in new hospitals which has been instigated by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah. Over the coming years, Qatar will invest in a network of new hospitals targeting various niches in the healthcare market.

1 - Missing link between fundamental research and clinical research. It speeds up the application of the latest research for the benefit of the patient. It ensures the continuum between research and care and allows patients to benefit more quickly from diagnostic and therapeutic innovations.

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Sidra Medical and Research Center will encompass three essential missions - world-class clinical care, medical education and biomedical research. Part of a collaborative effort entitled 'one program in multiple institutions,' the medical center will work closely with Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) and Hamad Medical Corporation to promote excellence in all. As the most recent and most complex initiative to be launched by Qatar Foundation, Sidra will not only enhance the quality of healthcare in Qatar but help build the nation's scientific expertise and resources. Qatar Foundation has committed US $ 7.9 billion to endow the medical and research center, the largest endowment of a medical center anywhere in the world.

Sidra will be part of a new medical zone on the Education City campus which will also include residential accommodations for about 300 nurses, a car park, and a pedestrian walkway to Weill Cornell Medical College. Construction of the medical center is scheduled to begin in early 2008, with the opening anticipated in late 2010 with approximately 380 beds and infrastructure to enable expansion to 550 beds in a subsequent phase.