I Exist: Reem Al-Olaby at TEDxAUC

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Reem is currently a doctoral student at AUC who is receiving a Yousef Jameel doctoral fellowship since September 2010. Her PhD project is to develop a smart drug against Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) under the supervision of Professor Hassan Azzazy (AUC), Professor Rod Balhorn (SHALs Technologies inc.), Professor Brett Chromy (UC Davis) and Professor Shoshana Levy (Stanford University) and in collaboration with California Institute of Technology (Caltech), The Scripps Research Institute , NBCR (UC San Diego) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Reem obtained her Bachelor degree in Pharmacy from Ain Shams University in 2007 followed by a Masters degree in Biotechnology from the AUC in 2010. She was awarded The Nadhmi Auchi Young Arab Leaders fellowship at AUC in 2008-2010. She also obtained several awards including being selected as the ideal student over all students in Ain Shams University (~200,000 students). While studying for her Masters at AUC, she was the second to receive the best presentation award in Novartis Biocamp Egypt 2009, and her team's business plan was chosen as one of the top 3 business plans in Novartis International Biocamp held in Boston, USA. She coauthored several papers on the current technologies and clinical applications of molecular diagnostic assays of HCV. Reem is a mother of a three-year old daughter (Mariam) and a 1 month old son (Yousif).

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