Dr. Raghda Ramadan
Assistant Professor
Faculty Office Ext.
3052
Faculty Building
UB1
Office Number
362
Dr. Raghda Ramadan received her BSc degree with honours from Faculty of Pharmacy and Biotechnology at the German University in Cairo. Shortly afterwards, she worked as a junior researcher at the Egyptian National Research Centre (NRC) and the American University in Cairo, covering various aspects of computer-aided drug design. She obtained a M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Science, with Clinical Molecular Science specialization, from Maastricht University in Netherlands, a joint program with Hasselt University in Belgium, and she was awarded the best dissertation award prize. Consequently, she was accepted as a Ph.D. student at the University of Ghent in Belgium, with Prof. L. leybaert a lead scientist in the molecular biology field. Dr. Ramadan obtained her Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Science at School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Sep. 2019, focusing on investigating molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases.
After obtaining her Ph.D., Dr. Ramadan has joined the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN) interdisciplinary bioscience group, where she was leading the cardiovascular research at the Radiobiology unit. Her research focused on understanding Health effects of radiotherapy, mainly cardiovascular diseases and secondary cancers, focusing on epigenetic mechanisms, transcriptomics, proteomics, DNA damage response, and more. Utilizing state of the art techniques in cellular and molecular biology, she was able to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets for which a US patent was filed for potential valorization. Her research was published in several prestigious international journals, and she was awarded the European MELODI Award, and the Belgian Nuclear Society- Young Generation award, in addition, her achievements extend to her role as a member of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCAER). Since Sep 2023, Dr. Ramadan has joined Nile University as an Assistant Professor at the School of Biotechnology.
Awards:
The European MELODI award for best young scientist in the field of Radiotherapy-induced health effects, October 2022
- Best science award of the Belgian Nuclear Society- Young Generation contest, November 2020.
- Best poster award of the Belgian Nuclear Society- Young Generation contest, November 2019.
- Young Investigator Award of the European Radiation Research Society to attend 44th Annual Meeting of the European Radiation Research Society (ERR 2018), 21-25 August 2018, Pecs, Hungary.
- Best oral presentation prize awarded by Belgian Society for Advancements of Cytometry, October 2017.
- UGhent faculty mobility travel grant to participate in “2nd European radiation protection Research week", October 2017, Paris, France.
- CONCERT (H2020) travel grant to participate in "42nd Conference of the European Radiation Research Society conference" September 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- FWO travel grant to participate in "Advanced Course on Redox Regulation of Metabolic Processes”, organized by FEBS, September 2016, Spetses, Greece.
- UGhent faculty mobility travel grant to participate in "Advanced Course on Redox Regulation of Metabolic Processes”, organized by FEBS, September 2016, Spetses, Greece.
- OPERA travel grant to participate in “PCR-based Techniques in Radiobiology and Low-Dose Risk Research”, June 2016, Budapest, Hungary.
- FWO travel grant to participate in "Basic Clinical Radiobiology" workshop organized by ESTRO, March 2016, Budapest, Hungary.
- UGhent faculty mobility travel grant to participate in "Basic Clinical Radiobiology" workshop organized by ESTRO, March 2016, Budapest, Hungary.
- Second best master thesis award, by the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), October 2015.
Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiovascular diseases and cancer for the aim of identifying potentail biomarkers and theraptutic targets- Computer-Aided Drug Design and molecular modeling of small molecules