Shymaa Enany

Vision statement

Empowering women to push their work forward even with their family responsibilities and through poverty, and to strength their relations with communities.

My personal vision for women in science is how improving their situation could provide huge scientific progress in society. I believe by joining the OWSD Executive Board, I will target excellent science communications and diplomacy, focusing on women scientists, within a timeframe and on a schedule. I will empower women and help them to reconcile family and research duties through OWSD.

Candidate’s bio

Dr. Shymaa Enany is an associate professor of Microbiology, Suez Canal University, Egypt. She received her PhD from School of Medical Sciences, Niigata University, Japan.
Her postdoc was in USA and Japan. She was the first Arab scientist applying microbial proteomic techniques helping in revealing good markers for microbes spreading in
community.

She received many awards for her scientific contributions. Recently, she awarded the most prestigious award in Egypt; the state encouragement prize for women in the field of
health and pharmaceutical sciences, 2019. Also, she was awarded The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Young Arab Scientist Prize 2018 for Scientific Achievement in Medical
Sciences. This year, she was selected as a member in the Global Young Academy (GYA). She is an alumna of Egyptian Young Academy of Science, an evaluator on Academy of
Scientific Research and Technology, a reviewer in International Exhibition of Innovation, and an affiliate of The World Academy of Sciences. Dr. Shymaa is also one of scientific committee of World Forum for Women in Science, a selected young leader in Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum and World Science Forum (WSF), a member in the global Open Science Group, and a collaborator in Global Burden of Disease.

She is one of Egyptian Microbiology National Committee working for achieving sustainable development goals for a better future. She was appointed as an Egyptian ambassador in Next Einstein Forum (NEF), which showcase the global contribution and potential of scientists from Africa that enabling Africa to get onto the global scientific stage, and she is a selected member in COVID-19 Diagnostics group in Africa and the co-chair of the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition platform (Immunology, Virology and Diagnostics Working Group) in low- and middle-income countries. Latterly, she is selected as an African science leadership program fellow.