مجموعة من ورش العمل التي أقيمت داخل مركز التميز العلمي:

• We have organized a workshop entitled “The new opportunities in drug discovery using cell cultures”, 8^th – 10^th 2018. It was attended by 25 of young researchers as well as undergraduate students. They were taught the basic techniques of tissue culture and its application in drug discovery.

• We have organized a workshop entitled "qPCR Workshop activity “From planning & optimizing experiment to drug discovery applications”, 11^th -12^th 2019. The workshop provided participants a deep and objective understanding of different molecular biology techniques with highlighting all types of qPCR and applications in genotyping and expression profiling in various fields of molecular diagnostics and drug discovery. 20 participants has attended the workshop.

• Isothermal Calorimeter application We hosted the Sweden expert Peter Jameson, who hold a 3-days hands on workshop to train researchers at faculty of pharmacy on using ITC and its application. 25 attended the workshop, attendees included research assistants and junior staff as well as 4 undergraduate students.

• An international training course in cooperation with the “International Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology”, Trieste Italy and a UNESCO affiliated center. The course entitled “CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing: a new approach for therapeutics (hands on course)”. The course was originally planned 6-8 Sept. 2021 but due to travel restriction it was postponed to 20^th -22^nd 2022. Funding is secured from ICGEB, ASRT and Helwan University to cover the running cost and accommodation of international speakers and provide grants to part of the participants. Course will have speakers and instructors from UK, USA, Italy and Egypt. Applications has been submitted and screened and we have selected 30 participants from Colombia, Croatia, Gambia, India, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Slovenia, Turkey, and Vietnam in addition to Egypt.