Adhra Al Mawali, has served as the Director of Studies and Research Centre, Ministry of Health, Oman since 2012. She graduated from Sultan Qaboos University in Medical Sciences and subsequently completed her Masters and PhD at the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 2008. Her PhD thesis was about Novel Multiparameter Flow Cytometry for the Detection of Leukaemia Associated Phenotypes and Minimal Residual Disease Monitoring in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) and she found that the oncogenic events of Flt3 internal tandem duplication happen at a stage of stem cells that possess IL-3 alpha-receptor (CD123). She is the first author of Publications in several prestigious international journals like the American Journal of Clinical Pathology, International Journal of Laboratory Haematology, Clinical Cytometry, ActaHematologica and Journal of Stem Cell Research & Therapy. Her research was chosen as the most outstanding clinical research at the Australian Society for Medical Research 2007. In 2010, she was nominated for the World Health Organization Award in the Middle Eastern region for control of cancer. She has presented her work in many national and international conferences. She was awarded The Woman Excellence Award in the Health Sector in 2011, and was cited as one of the 40 super achievers in the Sultanate of Oman in a Book entitled Jewels of Oman. In Nov 2015, she was awarded Loreal-Unisco Award, For Women In Sciences (FWIS2015) from National Council For Scientific Research CNRS, France. She was also winner for the best poster at the International Conference in Laboratory Medicine 2010, held in Muscat, Oman. She is a member of the Oman Medical Journal editorial Board.