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Mohammed Ghaly is Head of the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics at The College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in Doha, Qatar, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Islamic Ethics published by Brill. Dr. Ghaly specializes in the intersection of Islamic Ethics and biomedical sciences. 

In 1999, Dr. Ghaly earned a B.A. degree in Islamic Studies with cum laude from Al-Azhar University in Egypt. and went on to complete an M.A. with cum laude and PhD degree in the same specialization in 2002 and 2008 respectively from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Between 2007 and 2013, Dr. Ghaly served as a faculty member of Leiden University and since 2011 has been a faculty member of the Erasmus Mundus Program; the European Master of Bioethics jointly organized by a number of European universities. 

Dr. Ghaly was affiliated as Visiting Scholar/Researcher with a number of universities including the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, USA (academic year 2014-2015), School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford (academic year 2017-2018) and School of Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (academic year 2018-2019). Dr. Ghaly was invited to lecture on Islamic bioethics at many universities worldwide including Imperial College London, Oxford University, University of Oslo, University of Chicago and Georgetown University. 

Dr. Ghaly is the Lead Principal Investigator (LPI) and research consultant of a number of funded research projects. In 2012, Dr. Ghaly was awarded the prestigious VENI grant (2012-2016) from The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for his research project "Islam and Biomedical Ethics: The Interplay of Islam and the West". In 2015, he received another prestigious grant from the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) for conducting the research project "Indigenizing Genomics in the Gulf Region (IGGR): The Missing Islamic Bioethical Discourse". 

Dr. Ghaly serves on the editorial board of a number of academic journals and has a strong record of peer-reviewed publications on a wide range of topics in the field of Islam and Biomedical Ethics. He is the single author of more than thirty peer-reviewed publications.