being of the Saudi people through developing national human potentialities and expertise and the necessary infrastructure to carry out high quality innovative, sustainable and competitive researches and also through sponsoring and facilitating collaborative, creative multi-specialization and multi-disciplinary research, while the message of the program has been crystallized in supporting research in the field of health and medical sciences to promote health and well-being in the Kingdom. The plan developed strategic research goals after studying the virtual reality of the most common diseases in the Kingdom and extrapolating their future, following classifying them into infectious diseases and non-contagious diseases. The non-contagious diseases included diabetes, heart disease and circulatory diseases, cancer, allergy and asthma and neuro-diseases, according to a latest report carried by KACST's web-site. --More
