An MSAian Awarded First Class Honours in Biotech MSc

Students Exchange Programme through British Degree Validation From Greenwich University to MSA Graduates More than 70 students traveled this academic year 2013/2014 to University of Greenwich as part of our student exchange programme to attend workshops in various disciplines besides attending summer classes. That trip includes several visits to touristic attractions which are very famous in UK to be acquainted to the British cultural background and its customs and habits.

When October University for Modern Sciences and Arts organized yet another successful science fair, MSA picked the three of the best young inventors from schools across the country to represent Egypt at the I-SWEEEP International Olympiad in Houston Texas, USA.

An MSAian grabs Gold Medal at the 12th African Artistic and Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in South Africa.

Saleh Naggar Ahmed was awarded first place for his project in the "Symposium of Unique life (SOUL) 2014" which was held on Saturday, the 22nd of March. SOUL is under the patronage of the National Research center (NRC) and the Ministry of youth affairs which is part of the "Centre of Civic Education" , at El Zamalek. Saleh presented "Pretreatment of Agriculture Waste for production of Solid Fuel". He competed against several student such as Zuwail University, MUST University , Cairo University, Ain Shams university and many others.

Students of Industrial Project in the Faculty of Biotechnology were given the opportunity on the 3rd of March, to visit the Regional Center for Food and Feed..

On Monday, 24th of February, a group of students from Faculty of Biotechnology had an academic field trip to a dairy products factory and a training centre in the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, as a part of the industrial project course. The students experienced two different types of processing milk products, manually and mechanically.

For the second time in a row, Biotechnology students were privileged to get an accommodation at the Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute for training (AGERI), during their midterm break.

The biotechnology students were privileged enough to get a chance to train at the 57357 hospital, "The Children Cancer Hospital".

Academic Field Trips are usually very informative, packed with hands on experiences where students can practically and on site apply the theoretical information they got in class. Field trips are always fun and enjoyable as a social gathering and scientifically enhance and stress the educational information.

On receiving the permission from the head of the Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute, Prof .Osama Momtaz and the vice Prof. Shereen Asam, on November 18th, 2013 students of biotechnology and mainly Molecular Genetics students hit their visit to the Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute with the Lecture assistant Amgad Rady. ".

Success Story for MSA Student Exchange Programme since 2004".

Aicha Massrali, the assistant lecturer at faculty of Biotechnology, has traveled to the United Kingdom to attend her Msc Graduation Ceremony at Rochester Cathedral, University of Greenwich, UK on 26th July 2013.

Earlier this week, the Faculty of Biotechnology held its graduation project discussions in the attendance of almost 20 external examiners that were hosted by MSA to review and discuss the students’ graduation projects. After the discussions were over, Cell Safe Cord Blood Bank surprised everyone with the amazing news that 4 students have been chosen to join the company and will start working there after a SIX-MONTH TRAINING IN SWITZERLAND. Cell Safe Cord Blood Bank is a global stem cell bank with cutting edge technology and research facilities.

The Faculty of Biotechnology honours Dr Abd- El Monem El Bna ( The head of Agricultural Research Center) for his visible input that truly left a wondrous sign in the Agricultural field in Egypt and his fantastic co-operation with the MSA University during the last few years:

As part of the continued efforts of the MSA faculties to provide unique learning experiences to its students, third year students of the Faculty of Biotechnology have had the distinctive opportunity to visit the Agriculture Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI) to tour the valuable institute and to see how the Gene Gun works. The Gene Gun is the device and bombardment technique used for gene insertion and transformation in crops.

The Faculty of Biotechnology was honoured to host Dr Leonela Silva Jimenez who currently works with Columbia University, to enrich students with her lecture and enormous knowledge about healthy methods of nutrition.

The Second Biotechnology Symposium in Faculty of Science, CairoUniversity was held on Saturday, 16th of March. The Symposium includedstudents from Biotechnology from four different universitiesincluding; MSA, GUC, Cairo University, and MUST.

On Wednesday, February 27, the students had an educational field trip to visit one of the largest Egyptian food-producing companies, EGC. There, they had the exciting opportunity to observe the steps to the live production of V-cut chips, DAMAS chocolates and Nobi biscuits, acquiring feedback on the problems facing these factories which could then be solved by biotechnological means.

For the second time in a row, Biotechnology students were privileged to get an accommodation at the Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute for training (AGERI), during their midterm break.

Mirna Khater, assistant lecturer at MSA's faculty of Biotechnology, traveled to the United Kingdom to attend her MSc Graduation Ceremony at Rochester Cathedral, University of Greenwich, UK on the 26th July 2012.

MSA Faculty of Biotechnology planned to open the graduation projects which totaled 24 projects for discussion, on February 4, 2013. The best projected one was using the stem cells to treat the major chronic diseases. That project was presented by Shorouk El Tokhy. Another project dealt with the effect of toxics on the liver functions which was presented by Seham Gawdat.

MSA University is proud to announce that its excelling Biotechnology students Cherine Amr and Fatma El Zahraa Salama were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Medical Sciences at the Asian Science Camp which was held in Daejon, Korea from the 7th to the 13th of August 2011. Their project was a great piece of work under the title “Targeting a specific receptor in the brain tumor to facilitate the passage of the drug through the blood brain barrier.” Our very own Cherine and Fatma were thrilled to attend the camp and felt lucky to be able to meet several Nobel laureates and even attend their lectures.

The 2nd International Conference for the applications of bio-technology (ICAB) 2009 attended by 350 scientists and researchers from all over the world was held for two days at October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA) where they presented and discussed the latest and most advanced researches in that respect.

MSA University has witnessed the first international conference for the biotechnology applications in which three hundred and fifty scientists and researchers have shown up from all over the world. Scientists and researchers have presented the latest researches concerning the biotechnology field.

October University for Modern Sciences and Arts took the initiative to host this conference where researchers discussed the latest and the most advanced researches in the field of biotechnology where (MSA)is considered the only and sole university to have biotechnology among its faculties either in Egypt or in the Arab world universities. (MSA) grants its graduates a degree in biotechnology equivalent to the same degree granted to graduates of Greenwich University in the United Kingdom.