Tamer Sakr

Tamer Sakr

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Tamer Sakr participated in the WNU RT School 2012 as a Fellow, and in 2019 as a lecturer. Hear him describe the value WNU participation adds to careers.

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Tamer Sakr is an Associate Professor of radiopharmaceutical chemistry and the Quality Control Director of Radioisotope Production Factory (RPF), Second Egyptian Nuclear Research Reactor Complex (ETRR-2 complex), Egyptian atomic Energy Authority (EAEA). He has a B.Sc. in Pharmacy 2000, M.Sc. in Radiopharmaceutical chemistry 2006 and Ph.D. in Radiopharmaceutical chemistry 2010. Tamer Sakr is a good example how WNU supports their Fellows; he was a fellow in WNU Radiation Technology School 2012 in South Korea, and was an invited lecturer for WNU RT School 2019 in Russia.

As a Quality Control Director of Radioisotope Production Facility (RPF), he had succeeded with the RPF team to produce and supply I-131 and Tc-99m generators to the Egyptian nuclear medicine market. He began the implementation of a nano-nuclear pharmacy research field in Egypt and teaches pharmaceutical chemistry and nuclear pharmacy courses in Egyptian universities. He has received 3 fellowships to USA, South Korea and Argentina and 1 scientific visit to Brookhaven National lab and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) – USA. He has received 2 grants from IAEA and was invited to 4 international coordinated research meetings in radiopharmaceutical field – IAEA and as a Scientific Committee member at International Symposium on Trends of Radiopharmaceutical (ISTR-2019).

He has 42 international publications in scientific collaboration with institutes and universities in USA, Argentina, Italy, Austria, Brazil and South Korea. He has supervised 20 Ph.D. & M.Sc. theses and is a reviewer to several scientific journals.

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