Samar Kassim

صورة
Organizations: Universities
Professions: Educator

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Professor of Biochemistry

Samar Kassim

1962

CONTACT INFORMATION / PRIVATE


Cairo

Egypt

samar_kassim@yahoo.com

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


Ain Shams University

Faculty of Medicine

Cairo

Egypt

Education


PhD in Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, 1994.

MSc in Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, 1991.

MBBCh of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, 1985.

 

languages


Arabic

English

COMPETENCES


Molecular Biology of Epithelial Tumors

Medical Biochemistry

Bioinformatics

WORK HISTORY


Professor of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, 2005-present.

Visitor Scientist, Department of Biological Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK, 2002.

Associate Professor of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, 2001-2005.

Lecturer, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, 1995-2001.

Research associate, Dept. of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, USA, 1992-1994.

Honorary office and memberships


Member, The Egyptian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Member, The Egyptian Society for Tumor Markers Oncology.

 

Productions and Works


"Association System for Breast Cancer Microarray Data," International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Information Science (IJICIS), 9, 2009.

"Potential Biochemical and Physiological Predisposing Factors and Vascular Diseases in Nulligravid Women of Reproductive Age," EJB, 26, pp. 440-452, 2008.

"Antiproliferative Effect of Hepatitis C Virus on Mitogen Stimulated Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells: Potential Role in Viral Persistence in Egyptian Patients," Clinical Biochemistry, pp. 1173–1179, 2007.

"The Cell Cycle Regulators P16INK4a, P15INK4b and Cyclin D1: Relationship to Clinicopathologic Parameters and Disease-Free Survival in Egyptian Laryngeal Carcinoma Patients," Cancer Genomics & Proteomics, 2, pp. 239 – 246, 2005.

"Detection of bladder carcinoma by combined testing for hyaluronidase and cytokeratin 20 RNAs," Cancer, pp. 1356-1362, 2005.

AWARDS


The late Professor Momtaz Mohamed al-Sawi award in the field of laboratory medicine and blood diseases (an award granted from the Academy of Scientific Research), 2007.

Molecular Biology Excellency Award, 1998.