N. Hashem
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Nemat Hashem | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | Egyptian |
| Known for | Founder of medical genetics in Egypt; research on Lymphocyte mitosis |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medical genetics, Pediatrics |
| Institutions | Ain Shams University |
Nemat Hashem (also transliterated as N. Hashem) was an Egyptian physician and scientist who was a pioneer in the field of medical genetics in Egypt and the Middle East.[1] In 1964, she established the first medical genetics clinic in the Arab world at Ain Shams University.[2]
Hashem served as a professor of Pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University in Cairo.[2] In the early 1960s, she focused her research on chromosomal abnormalities and the clinical presentation of genetic disorders within the Egyptian population.[1]
In 1963 and 1964, she gained international recognition for her collaborative research with Kurt Hirschhorn and others on the mitogenic action of phytohaemagglutinin.[3] This work was foundational in demonstrating that peripheral lymphocytes could be stimulated to undergo mitosis in response to specific antigens, a discovery critical to the development of modern immunology and karyotyping.[4]