Nagwa A Meguid
Professor
National Research Center Cairo
Egypt
Biography
Dr Meguid is a professor of human genetics and Children with Special Needs and Former Head of Human Genetics Unit, at the National Research Center (NRC) in Egypt. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Genetics, and she is a Senior Geneticist at the Genetics Institute, Pasadena, California; a fellow of Uppsala University, Sweden and Yale University. She was one of five selected scientists to win the outstanding L’Oreal UNESCO Award for women in Science for Africa & Middle East (2002). She has used her expertise to identify and describe several novel genetic syndromes. She was given the Distinctive Arab Female Scientist Prize Creative Women in Genetics by the Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain, 2009. Finally was awarded with the National State Award of Excellence in Advanced Medical science Technology, 2016. She is the Founder of Autistic disorders Clinic in the NRC. On the other hand she is the head of the laboratory of research in DNA in genetic behavioral disorders.
Research Interest
Human Genetics, Molecular Biology, Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Developmental Disabilities, Neuroscience, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Cognitive Development, Child Development, PCR