As part of its national networking in R&D, Zewail City of Science and Technology will oversee the Alexandria Center for Research and Training in Pharmaceuticals. This Center will be built and financed by Pharco Group and will operate as a foundation for the translation of pharmaceuticals from the drug design stage to practical applications. Scientists of the highest caliber will be involved, and the new tools of genetics and molecular biology will be advanced at the Center.
Collaborations with already-existing centers are also part of our R&D networking plan. So far, the Urology and Nephrology Center in Mansoura and the Aswan Heart Center have been the focus of these collaborations, through discussions with Dr Mohamed Ghoneim and Dr Magdi Yacoub respectively. In the future, other centers will be part of the network, especially once the R&D directions of Zewail City become well established.
Cooperation with public and private universities has begun and soon a center in nanoelectronics will be established jointly between Zewail City and the American University in Cairo.
Zewail City is also currently exploring new avenues of cooperation with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Housing, Infrastructure, and New Communities.
Zewail City Friends
On June 2, 2011, a group of Egyptian youth established an Arabic language Facebook page called Zewail City Friends as an immediate answer to Dr Ahmed Zewail’s call to Egyptians to support the City. Within five days…
