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Prof. Mohamed Helmy El Borai, PhD.

                                              
 Mohamed Helmy Abdel Moneim El Borai, has been a Professor of Pathology at the National Cancer  Institute (NCI),
 Cairo University, since 2001. He obtained his M.B., B.Ch. degree , from the Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University
  in 1981 and his Ph.D degree from the Faculty of Medicine, Leeds University, England in 1988. He  was granted a 
  United Nations post doctoral fellowship through  the International Center for Genetic Engineering and
  Biotechnology during 1991- 1993 in Turin, Italy, in the fields of Molecular Biology and Immunogenetics. As a
  Lecturer, since 1990, he established the first Cancer Molecular Pathology lab at the Pathology Department, National
  Cancer Institute, Cairo
  University, as a cancer research and routine cancer  diagnosis facility. He has been Head of the Tissue Culture,
  Cytogenetics and Molecular  Pathology Unit, Department of Pathology, NCI since 2006.  He has supervised a number
 of  Ph.D  theses in the field of Cancer Molecular Pathology and has published several articles in international peer
  reviewed as well as local journals and projects in the same field. As a member of the Executive  Committee
  responsible for the National Strategy for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology at the Ministry of Higher Education
  and State for Scientific Research (MHESR), since 2005, he has been involved in policies and decision making
  concerning applications of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in the Medical field. He is also a reviewer for the
  Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF) projects, MHESR,  as well as a reviewer of other Egyptian/
  International joint projects including the Egyptian /American joint projects through the Academy of Scientific
  Research and Technology, MHESR.