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Dr. Maha Mohamed Salah Eldin

Assistant Professor of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Biography

Dr. Maha M Salah Eldin, received her bachelor degree of Medicine and Surgery (with honors), Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt, in 2007. Then, she received the master's and doctoral degrees in Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt in 2014 and 2017 respectively. She is currently assistant professor in the Biotechnology School, Nile University, Giza, Egypt. Since 2012, she has been teaching Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Course which includes Macromolecules Chemistry and Metabolism, Vitamins Metabolism, Metabolic Integrations in the Human Body, Molecular Biology and Cancer Biology at Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt. Dr. Maha M Salah Eldin served as an Organizing Committee member for the 4th (BioChemCairo 2018) and 5th (BioChemCairo 2020) annual conferences of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Since 2017, she has been a mentor for medical students enrolled in the Integrated Program of Kasr Alainy (IPKA), Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, which aims at providing high-quality education with full academic supervision of the students and continuous evaluation of their performance.

Her research interest is in cancer and possible ways for early diagnosis and effective treatment. Some of Dr. Maha's research papers include:

  • Marwa Abdelgwad, Manal Ewaiss, Dina Sabry, Warda A. Khalifa, Zeinab M. Altaib and Maha Alhelf, “Comparative study on effect of mesenchymal stem cells and endothelial progenitor cells on treatment of experimental CCL4-induced liver fibrosis”, Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, ISSN: 1381-3455, 2020.
  • Heba S.Omar, Miriam Safwat Wadie and Maha Alhelf, “A Comparative study of the cytotoxic effect of 5-FU, surcumin alone or in combination on MCF-7 breast cancer cell line", Arab. J. Lab. Med., Vol. 44, No. 3: 581- 596, 2019.
  • Olfat Shaker, Maha Alhelf, George Morcos and Aisha Elsharkawy, “miRNA-101-1 and miRNA-221 expressions and their polymorphisms as biomarkers for early diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma,” Infection, Genetics and Evolution, volume 51, pages 173-181, July 2017.
  • Olfat Shaker, Fatma Taha, Maha Salah and Mohamed El-Marzouky, “LAPTM4B Gene Expression and Polymorphism as Diagnostic Markers of Breast Cancer in Egyptian Patients”, J. Med. Biochem., volume 34(4), pages 393–401, October 2015.