• Joint ASRT-BA Research Grants Program for Young Researchers
• State Merit Awards
• State Award of Excellence in Advanced Technology Sciences
• Griefing the Loss of Prof. Adel Mahmoud
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina and United Nations Resident Coordinator Office in Egypt signed a Memorandum of Understanding

 Application Deadline: 2 September 2018.

The Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), in collaboration with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) Center for Special Studies and Programs (CSSP), announce the opening of the first round of “Joint ASRT-BA Research Grants Program for Young Researchers”. The joint program seeks generating creative and innovative research. It also aims at bridging the gap between society needs and research, placing innovation into practice and supporting Egyptian and African researchers.

The Joint ASRT-BA Research Grants Program offers fifty research grants to fifty post-doctoral young researchers under the age of 45 (40 Egyptians and 10 Africans) over two rounds (25 young researchers per round), conducting research in one of the following areas:

• Food and Agricultural Sciences
• Environment
• Engineering Sciences and Technologies
• Medical Sciences

The Grant maximum duration is limited to two years and the maximum amount of money provided per researcher is up to EGP 250,000.

For more information about the eligibility criteria and for online application, please visit: https://bibalex.org/ASRT-BA-Grants/

For any inquiry, please contact: ASRT-BA.Grant@bibalex.org

Center for Special Studies and Programs is honored to congratulate Prof. Sherif Kandil, Professor at the Department of Materials Science, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, Alexandria University for obtaining the State Merit Awards in advanced Technological Sciences. This prize is a recognition for his great effort in supporting sciences and scientific research in Egypt. Prof. Kandil was also awarded the Alexandria University Award for Scientific Research (1984) and the Alexandria University Award for Recognition (2002).

Prof. Kandil held many positions throughout his career. He was in the Arab Region as the Chairman of the Advisory Council of the College of Science at the United Arab Emirates University, and Dean of the College of Graduate Studies, Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain where he introduced new courses and programs (Chemistry In Our Life at UAEU; and Distance Teaching and Training, and Environmental Management at AGU).

We sincerely wish him all the best for his future.

Center for Special Studies and Programs is honored to congratulate Prof. Mohamed Farag, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University for obtaining the State Award of Excellence  in Advanced Technology Sciences. He completed his PhD at Texas Tech University, USA, in 2003. He has been working as a part time visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, to participate in teaching plant metabolomics and chemomterics modelling for master students. In 2009–2010,  he held the Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship at the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry, Germany.

Dr. Farag now works full time as a Professor at the American University in Cairo (AUC) where his research work focuses primarily on applying innovative biochemical technologies (metabolomics) to help answer complex biological questions in medicine, herbal drugs analysis and agriculture.

He was TWAS Young Affiliate 2012–2016. And he received the TWAS Award in Science Diplomacy (2014). We sincerely wish him all the best.

We are deeply saddened by the loss of  Prof. Adel Mahmoud, Former President of Merck Vaccines and Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, who had developed several life-saving vaccines.

Prof. Mahmoud contributed with a lot of great medical achievements in the field of Vaccines Production and he is one of the pioneers of the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases in the world. One of the vaccines he developed was to help protect against gastroenteritis caused by the Rotavirus infection, which causes diarrhea to children. He also developed a vaccine for the Shingles viral infection, which causes a painful rash, as well as another one for human papillomavirus, which causes various warts on genitals and other parts and is also associated with the production of cervical cancer.

Prof. Mahmoud gave many talks on how vaccines work  and we were honored to host him during BioVisionAlexandria 2006. May his soul rest in peace.

Bibliotheca Alexandrina and United Nations Resident Coordinator Office in Egypt signed a Memorandum of Understanding to provide a framework of cooperation will focus on fostering a new dialogue and innovative thinking for integrated solutions of Sustainable Development in Egypt until the year 2050.

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