Name Rashika Ridi | ||
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Awards L'Oreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science Similar Alejandra Bravo, Lourdes J Cruz, Elaine Fuchs |
Rashika Ahmed Fathi El Ridi, a professor of Immunology, Department of Zoology Faculty of Science, Cairo University.

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.
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