Al Qatami tours Nobel Museum Exhibition

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 24, 2016:  His Excellency Humaid Al Qatami, Chairman of the Board and Director-General of the Dubai Health Authority, toured today the Nobel Museum Exhibition, which is taking place at the Children’s City venue at Dubai Creek.

The exhibition is being held for the second time in Dubai and highlights breakthroughs in medical and health fields by Nobel laureates. The month-long travelling museum is organised by the Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation (MBRF)

The exhibition held under the theme, ‘Exploring Life: Nobel Prize in Physiology’ will introduce visitors of all ages to several aspects of medicine, from the achievements of Islamic scientists in the medical and pharmaceutical fields to Nobel-prize awarded discoveries related to chronic diseases and the efforts to prevent and cure them.

Al Qatami, said: “Such an exhibition is of vital importance because it reflects the progress of medicine and the breakthrough achievements and milestones in the history of medicine. It also encourages our youth and those in the field of medicine to understand how simple ideas lead to path breaking discoveries and inventions that change the face of medicine for the better.”

He lauded the efforts of the Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation (MBRF) to spread the importance of knowledge and science among community members.