Enrichment Program at KAUST

The two-week Winter Enrichment Program (WEP) will return in 2020 from January 12 to 23 under the theme
‘Personalized Medicine’

1330

Speakers

2530

Students

110000

Visitors

1700

Events

Speakers

Meet the confirmed speakers of WEP 2020

Elsa Sotiriadis

Dr Elsa Sotiriadis, aka The Biofuturist, is a synthetic biologist turned biotech VC turned futurist, SF author and...cyborg.

Francoise Baylis

Bioethicist and Research Professor at Dalhousie University, USA. Professor Baylis' work is at the intersection of applied ethics...

Hanadi Sleiman

Professor of Chemistry Research Chair in DNA Nanoscience at McGill University, Canada. Hanadi Sleiman works on new...

Ian Campbell

Dr Ian Campbell is Interim Executive Chair at Innovate UK. He works on funding and connecting with UK business to drive sector growth.

Ajay K. Royyuru

Dr. Ajay Royyuru leads Healthcare & Life Sciences research at IBM. He is engaged in research that will advance personalized, information-based medicine...

Rifat Atun

Rifat Atun is Professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard University and the Director of Global Health Systems Cluster at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Shuji Nakamura

Nobel Prize for Physics 2014 for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources. Shuji Nakamura...

Theresa M.Reinke

Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Minnesota. Her research group is focused on enabling fundamental...

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We are now 10 years

Timeline of past events

WEP 2011

January 13 - February 04, 2011

WEP
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WEP 2012

January 12 - January 30, 2012

Sustainable Energy for All
Explore WEP 2012
WEP 2013

January 12 - January 30, 2013

WEP
Explore WEP 2013
WEP 2014

January 11 - January 30, 2014

WEP

FEP - Biodiversity, Birds, Wildlife, and Plants
- Explore WEP 2014
- Fall 2014
WEP 2015

January 10 - January 24, 2015

WEP - Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship

SEP - Brain Awareness Week

FEP - Big Marine Animal on The Move
WEP 2016

January 9 - January 22, 2015

WEP - Sustainability and Climate Change

SEP - Food For All

FEP - Exploring Innovation
WEP 2017

January 7 - January 21, 2017

WEP - Pushing the limits: Challenging Engineering and Science

SEP - Pioneers

FEP - Designing Tomorrow
WEP 2018

January 14 - January 25, 2018

WEP - Human-Machine Future

SEP - City of The Future

FEP - Marine Biodiversity
WEP 2019

January 13 - January 24, 2019

TIME
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WEP 2020

Time to get excited with next year's WEP 'Personalized Medicine'

Schedule for WEP 2020

Under the umbrella of the VP for Academic Affairs, WEP puts on events designed to enrich and inspire participants through lectures, workshops, entrepreneurial, and cultural activities not typically found in academic programs

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