General, Biological and Biomedical Statistics

Professor Waleed K. Al-Murrani holds a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine & Surgery from Baghdad University, Iraq, and a PhD in Quantitative and Population Genetics and Biostatistics from Edinburgh University (1973), the UK. In a career spanning more than 45 years, he supervised and trained many students at bachelor, diploma, MSc and PhD levels. His publishing profile, mainly in genetics of growth and disease resistance, exceeds 100 publications in international and regional peer-reviewed journals. He served as Technical Advisor for the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), and a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the International Service for National Agricultural Research in the Netherlands. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (UK). He has authored and translated books, worked as editor in many scientific journals, and is an accredited member of the Iraqi Translators’ Association. Al-Murrani holds 1st Class Iraqi Scientist Awards, is listed in Who’s Who in the World since 2007 and, since 2008, in the Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century published by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge.