Qatar Foundation
semi-private chartered, non-profit organization in Qatar, founded in 1995 by then-emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and his second wife Moza bint Nasserwww.qf.org.qa
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Oct 7, 2026
Yusef AzizGUEST
I coached five years here in Qatar.
Yusef AzizGUEST
I don't know if you're aware, but Qatar Foundation has six accredited U.S. universities here in Qatar.
Yusef AzizGUEST
They're small cohorts, but they have Virginia Commonwealth, They have Texas A&M where I was coaching, Georgetown, Northwestern, Carnegie and Mellon, Cornell.
Yusef AzizGUEST
Each one of them have their own like discipline.
Ben CohenGUEST
In other words, Qatar was allowed to use that platform, Wodanga, to portray itself as this responsible, civic-minded state.
Ben CohenGUEST
The image that institutions like the Qatar Foundation want you to believe about Qatar, not the reality of Qatar.
Jonathan SchanzerHOST
Yeah.
Jonathan SchanzerHOST
And the reality of Qatar is, well, it's not even complicated.
Nasir RajpootGUEST
These could be from animal models, could be from human tissue.
Sidney Ocanagil-TunstallHOST
The next period is 2012 to 2015, and you're involved in a Qatar Foundation-funded project.
Sidney Ocanagil-TunstallHOST
Tell us a little bit about that.
Sidney Ocanagil-TunstallHOST
What did that look like?
Nasir RajpootGUEST
And like I said, it was a bit challenging getting hold of grants from within the UK.
Nasir RajpootGUEST
And somebody pointed me to Qatar Foundation back in 2010 while I was working with colleagues in the School of Life Sciences and also with pathologist colleagues at Coventry in Warwickshire.
Nasir RajpootGUEST
And I started looking at that and I thought, wow, that's interesting, million dollar grants.
Nasir RajpootGUEST
So they were giving away million dollar grants for basic as well as applied research.