AFCM IGEM 2022

Khaled Shoukry

Dr. Khaled Shoukry is the Dean of Armed Forces College of Medicine and our Primary Principle Instructor. We would like to thank him for making it possible for us to participate in the iGEM competition and providing us with a workplace and resources to materialize our ideas. His constant support and guidance throughout the competition season enabled us to reach this stage.
Ayman Shawky

Dr. Ayman Shawky is the Vice Dean of Armed Forces College of Medicine and our Secondary Principle Instructor. We really appreciate his engagement with the project and the ability to ask him questions and discuss potential ideas at any time. He constantly checks up on us to see whether we need any logistic help, not to forget the emotional support he gives us too.
Tamer Ashry

Dr. Tamer Ashry is our director. He supervised our work and he used to check on us to be sure that our work is going fine without any mistakes.
Ahmed El-Shazly

Dr. Ahmed El-Shazly provided us with all the logistics we needed, regarding t-shirts, flyers, and many other stuff. He also helped with the awareness campaigns and events.
Ahmad Mahmoud Galal

He has been mentoring us through all our steps. He had a main role in connecting us with all the doctors and experts we needed to get in touch with. He even was responsible for the official preparation and approvals for most of our human practices events, including the paper documents for the official visits to the hospitals and other institutions.
Mahmoud Abdelgawad

He guided the Human Practices team through every step and provided all the help needed to make them experts in the competition. Through the year, Abdelgawad supervised the proposed visits and contacts from the human practices team and gave the final say whether to approve or decline. Finally, Gouda did the proofreading for all the wiki pages of the human practices sector before they were uploaded.
Mohamed Tarek

He was engaged with his presence around us in our troubleshooting phase. He also advised us to extend the project beyond just the scientific work. Mohamed Tarek Mansour provided us valuable and indispensible feedback about each aspect in our project, especially developing our Deep-Learning tools and software system.
Nashwa El-Khazragy

Prof. Nashwa El-Khazragy is a Professor of Clinical Pathology-Hematology and head of Proteomics and Metabolomics unit at Medical Ain Shams Research Institute (MASRI). She is also the head of the core laboratories at Armed Forces College of Medicine (AFCM), Cairo, Egypt. She mentored us in the wet-lab phase from scratch till we reached our final results.
Dalia Mostafa

Dr. Dalia Mostafa helped us when we sought her advice in the wetlab work and helped us overcome a huge obstacle.
Yasser Ayman

He is supervising all media tasks in the team, including video editing and events’ documentation. He also helped the team in organizing several events by connecting the team with other teams and colleges to get events done to spread more knowledge about Synthetic Biology in our community.
Mohamed Osama

He is obsessed with technology and gadgets and that’s why he is guiding our team through the Wiki and revising all pages uploaded.
Moetaz Sherif

He is our advisor in Human Practices. He helped some members with the statistical data as he believes that nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated to newer generations.
Omar Ahmed

Omar Ahmed Abdalla took part in the dry lab and helped in the project description page along with the story of the homepage of the wiki.
Ahmed Adel

Our team leader for this year; he established a schedule and a timeline for the team to be able to achieve the goals and targets in each sector. He shared with the team his previous experience in iGEM and told them about the obstacles and possible problems they might face in the work. He gave us some advice about how to cope with the iGEM competition without affecting our academic progress. He worked on establishing a good atmosphere for all the team and organized our meetings and visits to the clinics and participated in our awareness campaigns and surveys. One of his main interesting roles was that he organized multiple recreational activities for the whole team to put them off the work stress. Of these activities were: Cycling and Kayaking.
Ahmed Wael

Wael, he is responsible for working on the bioenterpreneurship of our project as well as working on the engineering of our theranostic circuit. In addition to that, he is involved in the work of the human practices desiging and conducting surveys as well as working in the designing and characterization of our project and working in the wet lab to make sure all our work is valid and safe.
Ahmed Gamal Mattar

He helped in modeling page (mathematical modeling and structural modeling) and in wet lab work. He also helped with interpreting the results along with other team members. Even more, he made a useful contribution by uploading the parts to iGEM registry and in parts characterization. He volunteered in charity organizations and helped in the workshops held by the team to other undergraduate students.
Mahmoud Sayed Fawzy

Mahmoud sayed, He was involved in all wetlab work to make sure that the lab work remains in progress. He also helped in ordering reagents, designing and characterization of the parts and circuits of the theranostic project. Outside the wetlab, he is responsible for the desgin page, helped in the safety and biosecurity part of the project, and also helped in making and editing videos (Promotion Video) and illustrations to clarify the project.
Mahmoud Abdelmonem

He’s part of the scientific part of the team and his duties are mainly in the dry lab aspect of the project, where he’s responsible for the development and documentation of this year’s software. Because he’s a strong believer in the fact that synthetic biology can provide innovative solutions to many of our everyday problems, he’s taken part in many workshops organized by his iGEM team to spread the knowledge about SynBio to others.
Mohamed Sayed Hassouna

Mohamed Hasouna, He is a member of the scientific committee of the team. He is specialized in designing and preparing lateral flow assays and Parts designing, characterization, and documentation. Additionally, he wrote the pages on implementation and proof of concept. Engineered Modularity and logic gates. He also participated in the Glala University workshop, the American University in Cairo workshop, the AFCM Synfair, and the Egyptian Meetup.
Mohamed Emad

Mohamed Emad, He was involved in all scientific parts to make sure that the project platform and proof of concept remains in progress. He also shared in all human practices events, ordering reagents, and shared in designing circuits of the theranostic project. Moreover, he helped in the documentation of dry and wet lab pages and also in the safety and bio-security part of the project, and last but not the least in illustrations to clarify the project.
Omar Emad

Omar Emad was involved in logo design, graphic design for the wiki illustrations. He had a role in the human practices work and made contributions to project sustainability. In addition, he was a presenter in some workshops and was in charge of the main preparation of the SDG's page.
Mohamed Hesham

Mohamed Hesham was involved in all the Human Practices work and supervised all the documentation that occurred through this year’s journey. Moreover, he did the proofreading for most of the wiki pages before they were submitted. He was also involved in the wet lab work from day one to learn how things are done the right way. Other than that, he helped with the script of the promotion video, as well as its subtitles, and the same goes for the safety grant video. Furthermore, he finalized the Mother Guide to Phenylketonuria in both English & Arabic. Lastly, Hesham helped with the uploading and coding of our wiki to finalize everything.
Ahmed Ashraf

Ahmed Ashraf was involved in the scientific part and responsible for the ‘Project Description’ page and the story part of the home page on the Wiki. Lastly, he also shared in literature characterization of the parts.
Hossam Elgamal

Hossam Abdelhamid Al-Gamal, He designed some illustrations to use on the wiki pages and was also responsible for the implementation page, as well as, the wet lab work.
Khaled Elhela

Khalid Abdull-aziz, Called Hela, participated in Making a presentation in synbio course and in Bunch of researches under the supervision of Mahmoud fawzy (Nanoparticles aggregation, How to increase the affinity of aptamer to target through modification in the conjugation pad,…) his main rule was Designing (illustrations, presentations,…) , Making short illustrating videos and finally he shared in making the wiki of our team.
Ahmed Wael Mohamed

Ahmed made a lecture of the team’s SynBio course and presented it more than once in different occasions. Moreover, he was involved in this year’s Mathematical modelling.
Ahmed Shalan

Ahmed Shalan, He was collecting information and statistics about PKU disease, doing surveys, helping to write a book containing recipes for patients with PKU and participated in the Synbio Course given in the ‘Egyptian Meetup’.
Mohamed AboElghar

He participated in making a simple Synbio Course, he helped us to find methods for Sensitivity enhancement for naked eye detection in LFA, thermodynamic modelling for Phenylalanine aptamers, and had a role in SEND platform and immobilization of whole cell biosensor on LFA. He, also searched for methods to tune our circuit to prevent overexpression. He participated in the wiki pages (protocols- design-parts).
Hossam Bannis

He was involved in human practices work to make sure that our work is beneficial and affecting the world around us. In addition to that he was a lecturer in the Synbio Course and helped to prepare lectures and workshops. Also he was responsible for the collaboration page and helped in making illustrations to clarify the project.