Rashika El Ridi
Immunologist
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| Intro | Immunologist | |
| Places | Egypt | |
| is | Physician Immunologist | |
| Work field | Healthcare | |
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| Birth | 23 June 1941, Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt | |
| Age | 83 years |
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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.