Fawzia Fahim

Fawzia Fahim
Born	December 9, 1931 Al-Fayoum, Egypt
Residence	Egypt
Nationality	Egyptian
Alma mater	Cairo University Ain Shams University Birmingham University
Known for	Egyptian health issues. Anti-tumor effects of venoms and iodoacetate
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry and Environmental Biology
Institutions	Ain Shams University
Doctoral students	Faten Zahran Essam Mady Amr Essmat Nadia Morcos

Fawzia Abbas Fahim (born December 9, 1931 in Al-Fayoum, Egypt) is an Egyptian biochemist and environmental biologist known for her work on the anti-tumoral effects of snake venom and iodoacetate. She is currently Professor of Biochemistry at Ain Shams University, Egypt. Dr. Fahim has also made important contributions to infant and occupational health, and pollution issues in Egypt.

Fahim worked as a Demonstrator in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemistry at Cairo University, from 1957–1962. She received a governmental grant from the United Kingdom, October 1962 – June, 1965, where she attended Birmingham University. In 1966 she served as a lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at Ain Shams University. In 1975 Fahim became an Associate Professor and in 1980 she became a full Professor, the position she still holds.

Dr. Fahim was Head of the Department of Biology and Natural Sciences, Institute of Environmental Studies and Research, at Ain Shams University from 1983 to 1989.

Dr. Fahim received her B.Sc. from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1954 and her Masters of Science in Chemistry from Cairo University in 1962. In 1965 she got her Ph.D. from Birmingham University, England. She is the author, or co-author, of over 80 scientific papers.

In 1959 Dr. Fahim married Salah El-Din Mohamed El-Mahdi, a professor of Design and Theory of Machines at the Faculty of Engineering, Ain-Shams University. He died in 1998. They had 3 children: Salwa (a pediatrician), Mohamed (a doctor of internal medicine) and Khalid, a Civil Engineer.

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