The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology has agreed that Egyptian geneticist Haitham Shaaban, along with two US scientists, will take over the presidency of the Federation's first ever conference on the continent of Africa, with the aim of discussing and transferring the latest findings of Science and in particular the role of advanced inexpensive technology in this field to the African continent.

Edited  by |ANNA sam

Science  section -  CJ journalist

Washington - May,28,2023

Dr. Haytham Shaaban is currently an associate professor of biophysics, one of the Egyptian experts abroad in Genome Research, and a research project manager at the “Agora” Center for transitional cancer research and the University of Lausanne Faculty of Medicine Hospital in Switzerland.

In Shaaban's latest research in this field, he was able to monitor the movement of the genome and new structures in a living cancer cell for the first time, which leads to the possibility of predicting and diagnosing cancer in its early stages.

The Egyptian scientist Haitham Shaaban is chairing the conference, which is currently being prepared and is scheduled to be held in Ghana at the end of next August, along with an American scientist of Ghanaian origin, Kwesi egblik, director of the Sina Institute of Science and technology in Ghana, and an American scientist, Thomas Brooker, professor of genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of Alabama in the United States.

About the importance and usefulness of this conference for the continent of Africa, Haitham Shaaban said in statements to the “Sky News Arabia”website:

The idea of organizing this conference came years ago when Dr. Kwazi agbelik and I met as postdoctoral researchers at Harvard University, where we were excited to transfer our experiences gained abroad to our continent, the continent of Africa, transfer knowledge and bring the most important scientists to convey their knowledge to our students and researchers.

We applied to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology to host this conference and we worked hard to convince them to hold this event in Africa and provide all the necessary possibilities for the success of this event.

The importance of the conference is that it is the first of its kind in this field to be held on the African continent.scientific conferences of the American Societies of Experimental Biology are always held in the United States and sometimes on the European continent. it is difficult for African students and researchers to participate in these scientific conferences and benefit from them for material and logistical reasons such as issuing travel visas and others.

Also, these conferences are always held in advanced scientific disciplines to attract scientists, researchers and students in these disciplines, and most of these specialists are not from the continent of Africa, and unfortunately all these factors hinder the spread of modern science and the interaction of researchers from outside America and Europe.

We also decided to choose the theme of the conference in a specialty that touches on health, basic medical sciences and modern technological sciences, especially the use of cheap technology represented by the latest types of optical imaging and quantitative methods based on artificial intelligence in genome studies in healthy cells and genome-related diseases.

Emerging technologies and modern tools for studying cellular and genomic functions and their interactions with the environment in health and disease will also be discussed.

The conference will host scientists from all over the world to present the latest discoveries in this field, helping these scientists interact and communicate with researchers on the African continent.

Egypt is one of the most important and largest African countries in the field of scientific research, especially that the Egyptian state is currently building the Egyptian Genome Project, and therefore holding such a conference in this specialty and timing will be an attraction for Egyptian researchers to attend the conference to present their research and learn about the latest findings of scientists in this science and related sciences.

The surprise is that we will be holding next year's edition of this conference in Egypt, and every year it will be held in one of the African countries and the Middle East region.

According to the biography of Dr. Haitham Shaaban, before moving to his current job in Switzerland, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University, a researcher at the French National Center for scientific research at the University of Toulouse, and a visiting researcher at the British University of Oxford.

In 2015, Shaaban received a double doctorate degree in optics and photonics physics from the University of Aix-Marseille in France and the University of Florence in Italy in the development of ultra-high-resolution optical microscopes.

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