Dr. Maha Nasr is currently working as an Associate Professor and researcher of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Egypt, specialized in nanotechnology. She is an awardee of the Daniel Turnberg UK/Middle East travel fellowship for initiation of research collaboration funded by the Wellcome Trust. Dr. Maha is currently leading a large team of researchers in several projects in collaboration both on the national and international levels. Dr. Maha was granted several awards by diverse funding bodies such as Fondation pour l’Universite’ de Lyon, TWAS/Biovision unit in Bibliotheca Alexandria, FIP foundation for education and research, the National Academy of Sciences, Robert Bosch Stiftung foundation, and the National Institute of health. She is also Africa Science Leadership program ASLP fellow, a TWAS arab regional office young affiliate, and an elected member of the Global young academy (GYA) and the Arab-German academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA).

Session: NEF Spotlight Session