Dr. Andre Megarbane
Professor of Medical Genetics
Assistant Dean for Research
Chair of the Department of Human Genetics
Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine
Lebanese American University (LAU)
Byblos, Lebanon
Dr. Andre Megarbane is a Professor of Medical Genetics, Assistant Dean for Research, and Chair of the Department of Human Genetics at the Lebanese American University in Lebanon. He specialized in medical genetics and later obtained a PhD in Sciences from Paris.
Dr. Megarbane is highly active in research, with interests spanning the fields of intellectual disability, dysmorphology, osseous malformations, neuromuscular disorders, and more. He is a member of the Lebanese National Bioethics Committee and the Lebanese Academy of Sciences.
He has authored and co-authored more than 400 publications and serves on the editorial boards of numerous scientific and medical journals. Dr. Megarbane has received eight scientific awards, including the 2024 Arab Award in Genetics from the Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Medical and Educational Sciences.