Between “James Webb” and a treatment for cancer without chemotherapy lies the story of two Egyptians who stormed the scientific arena and were keen to leave an indelible mark.
Dr. Amira Said Fiala, who was selected in a list of the 40 most important scientists under the 40 world for research on cancer treatments without chemotherapy from the American Society of Clinical Pathologists worldwide, and engineer Maryam Haitham Esmat, who participated in the development and launch of the super telescope “James Webb”, which took unprecedented pictures of parts of the body. From the universe dating back billions of years, announced by the US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
As for Dr. Amira Said Fiala, Consultant Medical Analysis and Senior Researcher in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and a post-doctoral candidate at the Cancer Stem Cell and Molecular Oncology Research Institute at Alexandria University in Egypt, she is interested in stem cell research and molecular therapies for cancer, and has worked on genetic manipulation of stem cells Oncogenic and molecular therapies in hepatocellular carcinoma.
Her findings have been published in the journals of the American Society of Clinical Pathology and the American Society for Cancer Research.
As for engineer Maryam Haitham Esmat, a doctoral researcher in the field of astrophysics at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, she spoke to Sky News Arabia regarding her participation in the development of James Web, saying:
“I was a software engineer and I worked on a very important part of this telescope, which is the Near Infrared Camera Instrument, to discover planets outside the solar system using electromagnetic radiation, and I worked on engineering and developing software for this camera.”
She added: “My participation in working with the telescope was from June 2019 to January 2020, and it was initially a training during my undergraduate studies at Lycoming College in the United States, and then I worked on developing the telescope as part of a large research team, and the period I worked within this team lasted regarding 6 months. “.
With these two amazing achievements, the two Arab Egyptian women painted an honorable and inspiring portrait of Arab and Egyptian women, and they certainly became a source of inspiration for girls who hope to enter the scientific arena and make glory for themselves one day.
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