Rana Dajani

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Rana Dajani (2016)

Rana Dajani ( Arabic رنا الدجاني, DMG Ranā ad-Daǧānī ) is a Jordanian molecular biologist and champion of education and the integration of scientific thought in the Arab world.

Professional life

Rana Dajani graduated from the University of Iowa with a Ph.D. in 2005 postgraduate studies in molecular biology. from. Rana Dajani is a graduate of the Fulbright Program and a two-time Fulbright Prize winner. In 2013 she received the Eisenhower Fellowship . 2014 she was a visiting professor at the Yale Stem Cell Center of Yale University and Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge and the Stem Cell Therapy Center in Jordan.

In October 2017, she was selected by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study as a fellow for the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program at Harvard University .

She is now an associate professor at the state-owned Hashemite University in Zarqa . She works on the biochemical processes of signal transduction in cells and emphasizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach.

She publishes her scientific results in renowned peer-reviewed journals. She has lectured at the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship Symposium at the University of Cambridge , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , McGill University in Montreal, and the UK Belief in Dialogue .

Social, cultural and political engagement

In addition to her scientific work on genome research in the areas of diabetes mellitus , cancer and stem cells , Rana Dajani advocates the integration of scientific thinking such as the theory of evolution into Islamic thinking . Dajani is intensively committed to scientific education for women and was decisively involved in the discussion about legal regulations for stem cell therapy in Jordan, which also set an example for corresponding regulations in the Arab and Islamic world.

She founded and ran the We Love Reading program, which works to improve children's literacy in 30 countries. We Love Reading trained 730 women in storytelling techniques, and in 2017 the campaign won the King Sejong Literacy Award , which UNESCO awards annually. The program resulted in the creation of 330 libraries across Jordan, adding 10,000 children to read and write beyond the school system, 60% of whom were girls.

In 2010 Dajani was appointed a member of the Clinton Global Initiative , which within the Clinton Foundation focuses on the global fight against HIV .

Rana Dajani is a member of the Jordanian Women's Council at the United Nations .

Awards and recognitions

The British Muslim Science Magazine named her one of the most influential scientists in the Islamic world and in 2014 CEO Middle East Magazine named her 13th of the “100 Most Powerful Arab Women”.

At the request of the US Embassy in Jordan and the Environment, Science, Technology and Health Office for the Middle East and North Africa of the US Embassy in Amman , Rana Dajani was inducted into the US State Department's Hall of Fame for women scientists in 2015 .

She received the following honors for her scientific and civil society work:

  • 2009 Prize for innovations in the social field in the Arab world, which was awarded by the development aid organization Synergos .
  • 2009 King Hussein Cancer Center Award .
  • 2013 Literary Award for Best Practices from the Library of Congress
  • 2014 WISE Qatar Award
  • 2014 King Hussein Medal of Honor
  • 2015 “Top Idea” of the open innovation platform Open IDEO for its refugee child work
  • 2015 Education Impact Award from the British children's rights organization Stars Foundation
  • 2015 Voted among the 50 most innovative social projects at the World CSR Congress
  • 2018 Jacobs Foundation Prize

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rana Dajani , Past students in Molecular Medicine (formerly Molecular & Cellular Biology), University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
  2. ^ Yale News, First Person: A Fulbrighter at Yale .
  3. ^ Jordanian Fulbright Alumna Receives Global Changemaker Award . America-MidEast Educational and Training Services. Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved on August 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ Eisenhower Fellows: "Rana Dajani" ( Memento from June 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Rana Dajani: Jordan's stem-cell law can guide the Middle East . In: Nature . 510, No. 7504, June 12, 2014, pp. 189-189. doi : 10.1038 / 510189a .
  6. ↑ Jordanian Scholar Wins Harvard Fellowship (en) . In: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University , November 1, 2017. 
  7. ↑ Rana Basem (Mohammed Rebhi) Dajani , Hashemite University. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
  8. ↑ R. Dajani, p Sanlioglu, Y. Zhang, Q. Li, MM Monick, E. Lazartigues, T. Eggleston, RL Davisson, GW Hunninghake, JF Engelhardt: pleiotropic functions of TNF-alpha deterministic mine distinct IKKbeta-dependent hepatocellular fates in response to LPS. In: American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. Volume 292, Number 1, January 2007, pp. G242-G252, doi : 10.1152 / ajpgi.00043.2006 , PMID 16935850 .
  9. ^ R. Dajani, Y. Zhang, PJ Taft, SM Travis, TD Starner, A. Olsen, J. Zabner, MJ Welsh, JF Engelhardt: Lysozyme secretion by submucosal glands protects the airway from bacterial infection. In: American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology. Volume 32, Number 6, June 2005, pp. 548-552, doi : 10.1165 / rcmb.2005-0059OC , PMID 15746432 , PMC 2715323 (free full text).
  10. ↑ Naja Dajani: How women scientists fare in the Arab world . In: Nature . 491, No. 7422, October 31, 2012, p. 9. doi : 10.1038 / 491009a . PMID 23128188 . Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  11. ↑ Dr. Rana Dajani, Molecular Biologist, Jordan . Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  12. ↑ a b Kelly James Clark: Religion and the Sciences of Origins: Historical and Contemporary Discussions . Springer, 2014, ISBN 9781137414816 (Retrieved August 8, 2017).
  13. ↑ 'The Anti-Revolutionary': One on one with Dr. Rana Dajani . Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  14. ↑ a b c Embassy Amman honors Dr. Rana Dajani Associate Professor Molecular Cell Biology at the Hashemite University . US Embassy in Jordan. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
  15. ↑ a b c d Rana Dajani We Love to Read, Jordan Founder and Director . Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  16. ↑ Jordan's “We Love Reading” wins UNESCO's King Sejong Literacy Prize - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization .
  17. ↑ Rana Dajani synergos social entrepreneur . Retrieved August 6, 2017.
  18. ^ Grassroots Libraries Promote Love of Reading , Voice of America. September 29, 2010. Retrieved August 8, 2017. 
  19. ^ Clinton Global Initiative . Retrieved August 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Dajani, Rana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES رنا الدجاني (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jordanian molecular biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century