Mona Mostafa Mohamed is an Egyptian doctor and head of the Cancer Biology Research Laboratory at Cairo University in Giza, Egypt. In 2005 she was granted the Avon Foundation-AACR International Scholar Award for her dedication to breast cancer research. Mohamed is known for her research on locally activated breast cancer, metastatic breast cancer, and inflammatory breast cancer.
Mohamed has a B.S. (1991) and a Ph.D. (2002) from Cairo University.[1] She was a postdoctoral researcher at Wayne State School of Medicine from 2005 until 2007.[2][better source needed] In 2007, she was awarded a start up fund from the Avon Foundation to create the first research lab in Egypt specific to studying breast cancer biology which is located at Cairo University.[3] As of 2022 she is an associate professor at Cairo University.[4]
Mohamed is known for her work in breast cancer, particularly on the role of multi functional enzymes.[5] Her research has examined the conditions for women with inflammatory breast cancer in Egypt,[6] and white blood cells from patients with inflammatory breast cancer.[7][8]
In 2005, Mohamed won the Avon Foundation International Scholar Award in Breast Cancer Research.[9][10] In 2012, she was admitted into the United States' State Departments' Women in Science Hall of Fame for the Middle East and North Africa.[9][11][better source needed] In 2014 she was awarded the Arab Women Organization Prize in Science and Technology.[12][better source needed]
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