Ms. Nagwa Ahmed Zeinelabdin

Nagwa is a research assistant and a Ph.D. student in the dual degree Ph.D. program between GMU and the University of Paris-Saclay, France. In 2015, Nagwa obtained her dual B.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from MSA University, Egypt, and the University of Greenwich, UK. In 2021, she obtained her M.Sc. in Medical Laboratory Sciences in Molecular Biology with distinction from the Gulf Medical University. Between the years of B.Sc. and M.Sc. she worked in different multidisciplinary research groups related to medical research, she worked in places such as the Egyptian Forensic Medico-Legal Authority in Egypt, VACSERA virology R&D laboratory in Egypt, and the Sharjah Institute for Medical Research (SIMR) at the University of Sharjah in the UAE. She has been serving as a research assistant at the Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine (TRIPM) at GMU since 2018. Nagwa’s research interests are focused on understanding how the immune system detects and kills cancer cells, and how the hypoxic microenvironment shapes this immune response. She is also studying the impact of hypoxia on genomic instability and response to DNA repair targeted therapy in pancreatic cancer.