Hayat Sindi

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Hayat Sindi (2012)

Hayat Sindi ( Arabic حياة سندي, DMG Ḥayāh Sindī ; born on November 6, 1967 in Mecca ) is a Saudi Arabian pharmacologist and expert in biotechnology . She has been UNESCO's Goodwill Ambassador since 2012 and was one of the ten most influential women in the Arab world in the same year.

Career

Hayat Sindi went to England at the age of 14 to graduate from school. In 1995 she graduated from King's College London with a degree in pharmacology. Six years later she received her PhD in biotechnology with a thesis on an electromagnetic-acoustic sensor at Newnham College , Cambridge .

Sindi is a visiting scholar at Harvard University . Both for science and for social innovation , she received PopTech - scholarships . She is the co-founder of Diagnostics For All , which provides affordable diagnostic tools for point-of-care diagnostics that enable treatment of patients beyond the reach of medical infrastructures. As the founder and CEO of the i2 Institute , Sindi supports young researchers and inventors. In addition, she tries to sensitize women in the Arab world to science.

Awards

In 2010, Sindi won the Mekkah Al Mukaramah Prize for Scientific Innovation, presented to her by Prince Chalid ibn Faisal . National Geographic honored her as an Emerging Explorer a year later . Irina Bokowa appointed Hayat Sindi on October 1, 2012 as UNESCO honorary ambassador for science. Through the " Clinton Global Initiative " of the Clinton Foundation Sindi was in September 2014 Leadership in Civil Society Award.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ arabianbusiness.com: 100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2012. (English, rank 9)
personal data
SURNAME Sindi, Hayat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sindi, Hayat bint Sulaiman bin Hassan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saudi Arabian pharmacologist and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Mecca