Prof. Assim A. Alfadda

Prof. Assim A Alfadda is a Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism in the Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Prof. Alfadda is the Founder and Director of the Obesity Research Center at King Saud University. Previously, he was the Deputy Director of the Center of Excellence in Biotechnology Research at King Saud University.

During his fellowship training at McGill University, he was always interested in understanding the regulation of body weight and metabolism. In 2004, he received a master’s degree in Physiology from McGill University for a thesis entitled:"Metabolic consequences of deleting the mitochondrial glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene in mice". For this work, he had won the Endocrine Society AstraZeneca Diabetes & Metabolism Research Fellow Award, in conjunction with the 85th annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003.

 Prof. Alfadda is a fellow in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and in the American College of Physicians.Author of more than 50 journal and conference papers, Prof. Alfadda’s research interest is directed towards the regulation of body weight and metabolism, adipokines and inflammation and the patho physiological changes that occur in metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes.

Prof. Alfadda has co-supervised several master and doctoral degree candidates, and was awarded several research grants by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, the Center of Excellence in Biotechnology Research and the College of Medicine Research Center at King Saud University. 

In addition, he has established the Proteomics Facility at the Obesity Research Center, holds research collaboration with several national and international institutes, and is a visiting professor to Seoul National University, South Korea. Prof. Alfadda also is an active participant in symposia and exhibitions to increase public awareness about obesity and its complications.

Prof. Alfadda holds a bachelor's degree in Medicine and Surgery from King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He did his Internal Medicine and Endocrinology & Metabolism training at McGill University, Canada.