Dr. Eleni Fthenou

Scientific Projects Director

Eleni Fthenou received her PhD from the Medical School of the University of Crete, Greece and her BSc in Genetics (Immunology) from the University of Aberdeen in UK. She has worked at the Department of Health Research Governance at the Ministry of Public Health in Qatar, and she was highly involved in the development of Qatar’s national policies, regulations, and guidelines of health research for a safe and innovative research ecosystem in the country. She has also worked as a scientist at the Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain, focusing her research on molecular epidemiology and the exposome. She was a Manager of the Clinical Nutrition and Epidemiology of Diseases Laboratory, at the Department of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece, designing and developing the biobank for the first mother-child cohort (Rhea study) in Greece. Currently she holds the position of Scientific Projects Director at Qatar Precision Health Institute focusing on the science of biobanking committed to the promotion of research in precision health, environmental epidemiology, and the translation of research findings into policy.