Nabila Bouatia-Naji

Nabila Bouatia-Naji is a Moroccan cardiologist who specialises in cardiovascular diseases specific to women and in medical genetics. She is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.

Biography A Moroccan, and at Lille 2 University of Health and Law, where she got her PhD in human genetics; her doctoral dissertation Implication des voies métaboliques associées à l'insuline dans la susceptibilité aux formes polygéniques d'obésité: études des gènes candidats ACDC/Adiponectine et ENPP1/PC-1 (2006) was supervised by Philippe Froguel. She later worked at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology as a postdoctoral fellow. with one of her leading teams being funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. She was awarded the 2023 Corazón de Mujer Award. In 2026, she won the Antoinette Fouque Prize in the 'Think' category.