Khadiga Gaafar

Organizations: Universities
Professions: Educator

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Professor of Endocrinology

Khadiga Gaafar

CONTACT INFORMATION / PRIVATE


khadigagaafar@hotmail.com

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


Cairo University

Zoology Department

gkhadiga@sci.cu.edu.eg

Education


Ph.D. in Physiology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, 1984.

Master degree in Comparative Physiology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, 1976.

Master Qualification Courses from Faculty of Science Cairo University, 1972, Excellent Grade.

Bachelor degree in Zoology from Faculty of Science Cairo University, May 1971, Excellent with Honor Grade.

languages


Arabic

English

COMPETENCES


Integration of Hormones

Hormones and Cancer

Hormones and Infertility

Care and Use of animals in research and education

Ethics in Research

WORK HISTORY


President of the Egyptian German Society of Zoology, 2012 - Present.

Chairperson of the first Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee in the Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Egypt in 2012 -2014.

Chairperson of Cairo University Ethics Committee for the Use of Experimental Animals in Teaching and Scientific Research from 2014 - Present.

Professor, Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. 1996-Present.

Honorary office and memberships


Syndicate of Science Professions, Egypt (since 1972).

Egyptian Zoological Society (since 1973).

Productions and Works


Sohair R. Fahmy and Khadiga Gaafar 2016. Establishing the first institutional animal care and use committee in Egypt. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 11:2.

Abeer Badr, Sohair Fahmy, Atef Abdel Monem, Maram Zaghloul, Nourhan Yehia, Ibrahim Abdel-kader, Kohar Garo Varjabedian, Ahmed Afifi, Saber sakr, Gamalat Osman, Azza Hassan, Fathy Farouk, Khaled Sharafeldin, Amina Essawy.

Azza Ezz El arab, Kareem Morsy, Khadiga Gaafar 2016. Performance Evaluation of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees in Egypt. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) Conference, At Bellevue, WA, USA.

Kareem Morsy, Sohair Fahmy, Amel Soliman, Rewaida Abdel-Gaber1, Hanan Saleh, Ibrahim Abdel-kader, Kohar Garo Varjabedian, Mervat Zaghloul, Hoda Saady3, Abdel-Baset Aref, Fathy Abdel-Ghaffar, El-Sayed Fahim.

Ahmed Afifi, Khadiga Gaafar Khadiga Gaafar 2015. Current and Prospective Status for Scientific Research on Fish Welfare in Egypt. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) Conference, At B0ston, MA, USA.