Mostafa Amr El-Sayed, May 8, 1933, an Egyptian chemist, considered the first Egyptian and Arab to receive the US National Medal of Science, which is the highest US honor in science for his achievements in the field of nanotechnology and his application of this technology using micro-gold compounds in the treatment of cancer.He is one of the world's top ten chemists, and is a professor of chemistry at Georgia Tech.In 2011, he was ranked 17th in the Thomson Reuters ranking of "Best Chemists of the Last Decade". It is known in spectroscopy as "the master's rule".
He was born in Zefta, Gharbia Governorate, to a mathematics teacher. He was the youngest of the sons. He then moved to Cairo with his father in secondary school. He joined the Higher Teachers Academy. Only two months after the start of the study, the students staged a sit-down and demanded that the teachers' diploma be converted to a bachelor's degree. Dr. Taha Hussein agreed to collect all the higher institutes for teachers at Ain Shams University and to transfer his institute to the Faculty of Science at Ain Shams University.
He won first place in his class in 1953, and was appointed as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Science. Mostafa El-Sayed had to obtain a scholarship to study in Florida, and traveled to the United States of America in 1954 to obtain a doctorate, and there he found his other half, got married and had the opportunity to conduct research, and decided to continue his life in the United States of America.
He has two sons, Dr. Evan, who is a professor of oncology, and his daughter, Dr. Laila, who works as a chemist, and he has two grandchildren who hold a PhD in engineering.
He studied at many prestigious universities there, such as Yale, Harvard, the California Institute of Technology, and finally the Georgia Institute of Technology, and took the Julius Brown chair there.
He has a lot of scientific research published in important periodicals and magazines in the world, and he has a lot of translated scientific literature
Dr. Mustafa Al-Sayed’s wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, and she died about five years after she contracted the disease. The technique of his experiments to treat cancer with gold was by injecting the blood vessels with nanoparticles of gold. These gold minutes go to the carcinogenic part of the cells. Then, by highlighting the gold, heat is generated that kills the cancerous cell. Dr. Mostafa El-Sayed noticed that the gold nanoparticles stick to cancer cells and not to healthy cells. Therefore, when shedding light on them, the cancer cells are the ones that are affected by the heat of the gold granules and they dissolve, meaning they die and the healthy cells are not affected.
Those experiments were conducted on small animals such as mice, and samples under a microscope. As for the application of these experiments to the human body, a permit from the US Health Administration is required, and it has stipulated that research be conducted on the fate of the gold granules when they remain in the human body. That is, it must be found that these granules do not harm humans in the long term if they are concentrated, for example, in the liver and kidneys. Research is still ongoing in this field.
These results were applied with the participation of Dr. Ayin Mostafa El-Sayed, Professor of Oncology at the University of California, Dr. Mostafa's son, on cancer cells from experimental animals, which have not yet been tested on humans.
Prof. Dr. Mostafa El-Sayed has established a scientific group in Egypt that conducts research in this field. He supervises them himself and visits Egypt from time to time to follow up on their work. He praises the work they do in his scientific field and says that they are achieving good results.
He has received many international honors and awards
King Faisal International Prize for Science in 1990 - Saudi Arabia
Fellowship of the American Academy of Film Sciences and Arts - USA
US National Science Necklace 2008 - USA
The Republic Medal of the First Class on January 28, 2009 - Egypt
Honorary Doctorate from Mansoura University on January 28, 2009 - Egypt
Honorary Doctorate from Beni Suef University (Faculty of Science) December 2010 - Egypt
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