Mohamed Sayed Salama
Professor Emeritus
Ain Shams Univesity, Cairo
Egypt
Biography
Dr. Mohamed S. Salama graduated from Ain Shams University (ASU) and was the top of list of graduates. He was hired by ASU in 1979, he got his M.Sc. in 1985 and his Ph.D in 1990 when he travelled to USA on a Peace Fellowship in the University of California, (Riverside).He stayed in the USA as a postdoctoral fellow till 1994. He was promoted a full professor in 2001. In Ain Shams University he was the director of the Central Lab.of the Faculty of Science in 2001-2003, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science in 2003-2007, Dean of the Faculty of Science in 2007-2009, Vice-President of ASU in 2009-2011, Acting President of ASU in 2011. In 1994 he won the State Prize in biological sciences from the National Academy of Science (Egypt). In the same year he won the Award of The Third World Academy of Science, TWAS (Italy) for young scientists. In 2015 he won Ain Shams Prize of Honor. Along his career he had many certificates of honor red in the nationally and internationally. He published over 100 scientific research papers, he has 4 patents in the field of molecular biology. He has long history of scientific collaboration with national and international institutes and scientists. He established molecular biology labs and research units in many places in Egypt and organized over 100 training workshops in molecular biology from 1994 up till now.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology