A biomarker saving lives | Rasha Hanafi | TEDxGUC

Day after day countless individuals suffer from heart related diseases, specifically, heart attacks; many cases of which, unfortunately, lead to death. With the constant improvements in today’s medical world, there are now numerous ways to deal with the side effects, and potentially resolve them. Dr. Rasha Hanafy will discuss with us in this talk her latest research in detecting early on- set heart attacks with her research team in the German University in Cairo, and controlling their ruthless side effects. Asc. Prof. Dr. Rasha Hanafi is associate professor of pharmaceutical and Biomedical analysis at the faculty of Pharmacy and Biotechnology of the German University in Cairo.She obtained her bachelor and masters degrees from the faculty of Pharmacy of Cairo University and was the first to obtain a PhD degree from the German University in Cairo in pharmaceutical sciences in 2009. She is currently teaching instrumental analysis and analytical chemistry for pharmacy students and is responsible of the central research laboratory of the faculty. She has more than 20 publications in international journals and has represented the faculty in more than 20 national an international conferences. She has more than 15 masters and PhD students from the GUC and other universities. She is also a Scientific Consultant for the Egyptian pharmaceutical industry and a Free Lance Trainer in the field of analytical Method development. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx