Team:AFCM-Egypt/HP/Integrated

Integrated Human Practices

Dr.Sherif El Khamese

Chair of Molecular Medicine, Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield.

Director of Research and Innovation.

Wellcome Trust Investigator, Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield.

As part of the Human practice, our IGEM team held several valuable discussion with experts in the field of Genomics like Dr. Sherif El Khamese; being that we where able to open discussion on our hypothesis for this year, we felt ecstatic and inspired

Pro Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub

Egyptian-British cardiothoracic surgeon.

Professor of Cardiothoracic surgery and Imperial College of London

Notable prizes:Order of Merit,Knight Bachelor,Order of the Nile

At the same note, we invited Prof Magdy to our college, Armed Forces College of Medicine, and we held a duo seminar where we addressed a specific topic of the importance of the early biomarker discovery in the diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and other diseases

Assistant Professor Coppola, Vincenzo, Cancer Biology and Genetics Director, GEMMC

Wexner Medical center

The Ohio State University

We discussed our project with dr. Vincenzo and the role of CRISPR technique in treatment of Hepatocellular carcinoma which is a fatal illness in Egypt.

Prof. Mahmoud Abdelkader

President of the German University of Cairo

Proffessuer in Photodynamic Therapy

IGEM Egypt team also met with Prof. Mahmoud Abdelkader, and they considerably listened to a full seminar presented by him in his topic while openly discussing our Synbio interests of this year.

Educational Council

At the end of our work, we were asked to present in front of the leaders of the Egyptian Armed Forces to make sure that we are ready for the jamboree.

We sat down with representatives of Sim Era and Vitabiotics companies to discuss the feasibility of our project with them. We think they liked our idea since they decided to give us the rest of the fund we needed