Rashika El Ridi

Rashika Ahmed Fathi El Ridi is a professor of Immunology at the Department of Zoology Faculty of Science, Cairo University.

Prof. Rashika El Ridi at the UNESCO building

In October 2009, Professor Rashika El Ridi won L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science for the year 2010 within the five most achievable women in the continents of the world. The jury for the prize said in a statement that the winning of professor Rashika El Ridi for Africa Group and the Arab countries was based on her contribution to the development of a vaccine to eradicate the cycle of schistosomiasis, a tropical disease infecting more than 200 million people in the world.[1]

References
  1. "African Success : Biography of Rashika EL RIDI". Retrieved 2012-03-27.


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