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Professor Ahmed receives UAEGDA's 'International Scientist of the Year' award

  • Awards and Appointments

Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology’s Professor Ahmed has received an award for `International Scientist of the Year' from the United Arab Emirates Genetics Diseases Association (UAEGDA).

Professor Ahmed receiving UAEGDA’s 'International Scientist of the Year' award

The award is to recognise his group's recently published work on genomics, screening and metastasis of ovarian cancer. Specifically, the identification of a potential marker for early diagnosis of ovarian cancer (SOX2) and a target for therapy (SIK2) that drives ovarian cancer metastasis to the abdominal cavity.