Riyadh, Mar. 16, 2021, SPA -- President of King Saud University Dr. Badran bin Abdulrahman Al-Oumar inaugurated here today the 7th annual Forum of the Scientific Association and its accompanying exhibit under the theme: "Despite the Pandemic, We Keep Giving". The current edition of the forum is distinct, as it copes with the emerging circumstances that impacted the whole world and badly hit states' economies. King Saud University's scientific associations have conducted as many as 500 functions, in 2020, in addition to other scientific production published on its 33 class standard magazines, including six publications among them that are members of the international database (ISI), in order to enrich world scientific endeavor over the Novel Coronavirus. Hence, the university has proven its excellence through producing 131 Coronavirus research, a 25 percent of the disease-related papers, at the Saudi university level. King Saud University ranked first in the Kingdom and 17th world-wide. --SPA 19:56 LOCAL TIME 16:56 GMT 0033 www.spa.gov.sa/w1525876