Research is an essential component in Qatar Foundation's strategy to make Education City a world-class center for innovative education.

By offering state-of-the-art facilities and a unique collaborative environment, we hope to attract some of the world's best minds and offer them opportunities to tackle challenging, real-world problems.

The RAND-Qatar Policy Institute, for example, has helped Qatar to make tremendous changes in the country's educational institutions. And Qatar Science and Technology Park will be an incubator where private companies can partner with government agencies and academic institutions, developing research into commercial applications and driving Qatar and the region toward a diversified, knowledge-based economy.

Each of our university branch campuses boasts a research element, and Education City's Specialty Teaching Hospital will be as much cutting-edge research facility as clinical care provider. Factor in generous funding opportunities, and Qatar Foundation is poised to become a leader in generating new knowledge and putting it to use.

Second Qatar Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series for Year 2008 held on 04 May 2008 by Professor Ferid Murad, Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of TX at Houston Health Science Center
"Discovery of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP in Cell Signalling and Their Role in Drug Development".