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Sherif El-Khamisy

Sherif El-Khamisy is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Sherif El-Khamisy rather than just read about it. In short: Sherif El- Khamisy is an Egyptian Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics. He is the Director of Research and Innovation and co-founder of the Healthy Life Span Institute, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

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Reference excerpt

Sherif El- Khamisy is an Egyptian Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics. He is the Director of Research and Innovation and co-founder of the Healthy Life Span Institute, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is also one of the 2022 winners of Obada Prize

Education El- Khamisy obtained his first degree in pharmacy at Cairo University in 1997 and moved to Ain Shams University for his master's degree in the same course where he graduated in 2000. He obtained a Diploma in Business administration from American University in Cairo in 2002 and bagged his PhD in University of Sussex in 2005.

Career In 2005, he became a lecturer at department of Biochemistry, Ain Shams University, Egypt. In 2006, he was a post doctoral fellow at the Department of Genetics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, US. From 2007 to 2008, he was a MRC Post-doctoral Fellow, Genome Center, University of Sussex, UK. In 2008, he became a fellow of Wellcome Trust, Genome Center, University of Sussex. In 2013, he became a Reader at Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield and in the same year he became the group leader of Wellcome Trust. In 2014, he became the Chair of Molecular Medicine Department, Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield and in 2015, he became the Director of Research and Innovation of the institution.

Awards and memberships In 2004, he received the Biochemical Society Award and became a fellow of Wellcome Trust in 2008. He received The State Award for Medical Sciences in 2011 and the Lister Research Fellowship Prize in 2015. He is also a recipient of Wellcome Trust Investigator Award and Shoman Award for Medical Sciences in 2015 and 2016 respectively. In 2017 and 2018, he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Sherif El-Khamisy

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Sherif El-Khamisy claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Sherif El-Khamisy before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Sherif El-Khamisy ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Sherif El-Khamisy

In research: Sherif El-Khamisy appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Sherif El-Khamisy in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Sherif El-Khamisy is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Egyptian biologists, Egyptian pharmacists, Egyptian scientists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sherif El-Khamisy outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Sherif El-Khamisy matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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