After the significant controversy caused by the Egyptian singer Ahmed Saad during his appearance with the journalist Amr Adib on the "Big Time Podcast" program, the Egyptian scientist Samah Saad, brother of the singer, topped Google search trends. The singer spoke about his brother Samah, who has become a prominent figure in his field, yet has not achieved any financial success. This led Saad to mock him, saying that his brother owns an old 128 model car that often breaks down on October Bridge in Cairo, forcing him to call his brother for help.
The Egyptian public searched for specific details about the Egyptian scientist Samah Saad, making him trend. So who is truly the Egyptian scientist Samah Saad?
His name is Samah Said Ali Said, born in the Sayeda Zaynab area south of Cairo in 1967. He is a professor and researcher in biophysics, the founding director of the Aging Studies Center at Zewail City of Science and Technology, and the director of the Oncology Biology Program at Hospital 57357.
He obtained his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Faculty of Science at Ain Shams University in 1988 and completed his master's degree in photochemistry in 1994 at Tohoku University, Japan, where he received his PhD in 1997. He began his career as a researcher and trainer and then as a teacher of physical chemistry at Ain Shams University.
In 1998, he worked as a visiting postdoctoral fellow at Graz University of Technology in Austria. From 2000 to 2005, he held various positions at Washington University in St. Louis, and from 2000 to 2003, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the chemistry department.
In 2002, Samah Saad was appointed as a teaching assistant in chemistry, then joined the neurology department as a research associate before moving to the University of California, San Diego, where he worked as a research scientist for three years.
For many years, he has conducted extensive research to develop anti-cancer treatments, reduce chemotherapy doses, and minimize their side effects on cancer patients. He is one of the students of the late Egyptian scientist Ahmed Zewail and was honored by Egypt in 2020 with the State Prize for Excellence in Science.
He has over 80 contributions to international conferences and workshops, with chapters in global medical books, and has also become a scientific reviewer for dozens of biology and medical journals.
