Category Information Systems

CMU-Q team creates fast, inexpensive screening kit for genetic disease carriers

Interdisciplinary project earns Bronze Achievement at iGEM 2019 A student team from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) created a fast, inexpensive method to test for carriers of genetic diseases like sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis. The team presented…

Qatar tech firms share knowledge, opportunities at Careers Platform event

Computer science and information systems students at CMU-Q explored job opportunities in the tech sector at Careers Platform 2019, Technology Edition. The annual networking event brings together organizations in the technology sector and students who are looking for practical, real…

Alumni startup raises $2.5 million in Series A funding

A startup that began as a class project at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) raised $2.5 million in a Series A funding round. Meddy is a physician booking platform created by Haris Aghadi and Abdulla AlKhenji, both CMU-Q graduates.…

CMU-Q’s Dan Phelps contributes to nursing informatics initiative at Hamad

“HMC’s Nursing Informatics Department launches research community to empower nurses” appeared in Gulf Times, May 23, 2019. Editor’s note: Dan Phelps, associate teaching professor of information systems at CMU-Q, delivered several workshops on nursing informatics at hospitals in the Hamad…

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