Biography:

Prof. Sameh Soror is Head of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University; and Director of the Centre for Scientific Excellence "Helwan Structural Biology Research (HSBR)". He is also serving as the foreign secretary and supervisor of cultural and scientific relations at Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT).

He graduated from Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, with the grade Excellent (Honor) in 1997; and received his Master�s degree in Genetics from Kaiserslautern University, Germany, in 2003, followed by a PhD degree in Genetic Engineering in 2007. He was postdoctoral researcher at Free University Brussels, 2008/2009 and 2011/2012 and at Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) in Belgium, 2009-2011.

Years 2013-2015 he was elected Co-Chair of the Global Young Academy (GYA), to which he was admitted in 2011. He has been selected as a member and Secretary-General of the Council of Education and Scientific Research Policies at ASRT.

He is a member of the National Committee of Crystallography in the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) and he served as board member of the Global Council of the IAP Science Education Programme (SEP), 2013-2015. He is co-founder of the Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS), and member of its advisory board. He is a member of the steering committee of INGSA-Africa chapter, and a member of the committee which oversees the IAP project on �Harnessing science, engineering and medicine to address Africa�s challenges�, in partnership with the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and funded by Carnegie Cooperation of New York. He is a member of expert group assigned to prepare a study about science advice in Africa.

He was honored by World Economic Forum in 2012 during the meeting of new champions in Tianjin, China. He was awarded the State prize for Advanced Technological Sciences, which supports medical sciences in 2013.

He was awarded the Helwan University prize in basic science, 2013/2014; and Helwan University excellence prize in medical sciences, 2017/2018.

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