The Director of the Molecular Genomic Unit
Prof /DR. Sara Hassan Agwa
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara-Agwa
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HZHTfoMAAAAJ&hl=en
* Consultant of Clinical Pathology & Molecular Genomics (MD) at MASRI (Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams Research Institute)
* Director of the Molecular Genomic Unit
* Member of African Society for Laboratory Medicine
* Member of the Egyptian Society of Hematology and Oncology
* Member of the Egyptian Society of Laboratory Medicine
* Member of the Egyptian Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis
* Has over 20 years experience in Genomics.
* The Principle investigator of the project of the academy of scientific research and technology (ASRT) under the name of: implementation of comprehensive molecular and next generation sequencing based genetic testing strategy to improve and prevent fatal outcomes of coronary artery disease related to familiar hypercholesterolemia. (2018-2020).
* The Principal Collaborator of the project funded by NAMURU-3 in collaboration with WHO and CDC in a project titled SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE FOR SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY ILLNESS (SARI) IN THE EASTERN MEDITERNIAN REGION(EMR). (2019-2022).
* The principal Investigator of the STDF funded project: THE POWER OF TWO : NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING AND BIOINFORMATICS IN TRANSCRIPTOMIC INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN EGYPTIANS
* The Co-investigator of th MARC project
* Molecular team leader in the ABBOT project
* Sharing in other projects and proposing other projects.
* The head of Molecular team in many international projects with pharma companies.
* 54 international publications on SCOPUS.
* Has two publications in science.
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9529057/, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj4336 )
* The coordinator of Molecular research course OF MASRI for Breast- Gynecological & immunoncology International Cancer conference (BGICC) January 2019,2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. 2024.
* The coordinator of Molecular research course MASRI for the International Gastrointestinal, liver & Uro_ Oncology conference (IGILUC)April 2019, 2020 ,2021, 2022.
* The director and coordinator of many hands on NGS workshops other Molecular Genomics Workshops held in MASRI.
