MIT Technology Review magazine - Arabic edition - selected 15 innovators for the "Innovators Under 35" award and announced the names of the winners of the fifth edition of the "Innovators Under 35" award, which aims to honor innovators with technical expertise who have provided innovations or Studies that will change the way people live for the better, and make a quantum leap in the world around them.

This year, an unprecedented number of nominees submitted to the award, and the innovations they participated in varied between the fields of technology, biotechnology, computer science, medicine, materials science, and others. Leading technology and world-renowned universities.

Mohamed Shaaban and the first high-resolution snapshot of the moment actin filament formation

Among the most prominent recipients of the award this year comes the young Egyptian researcher, Mohamed Shaaban, whose achievements Al Jazeera Net followed up on, and published a detailed report on his brilliant scientific achievement in August 2020, which was very well received worldwide, so that the famous “Nature” journal published An article for him in the column "Scientific Professions" to write about his experience on May 3, 2022.

Shaaban is 32 years old, and he is a candidate for a doctoral degree, from the Francis Crick Institute and the College of Medicine at Imperial College London, and according to the information provided by the magazine about the innovator, Shaaban was able to obtain high-resolution snapshots of the moment actin filaments are formed in cells, as it causes Actin polymerization and many physiological and pathological conditions such as cell migration, transmigration of sperm nuclei, and formation of tunneling nanotubes.

Egyptian researcher Mohamed Shaaban is one of the most prominent recipients of the award this year (MIT Technology Review platform)

Using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), Shaaban was able to obtain high-resolution snapshots of the moment of formation of actin filaments, one of the cellular proteins, by understanding the structure of the active nucleosome of actin, that is, the Arp2/3 complex, and analyzing it within the actin filament nucleation process.

Arp2/3 (actin-associated protein complex 2/3) is a seven-subunit protein complex that plays a major role in the organization of the actin cytoskeleton.

It is a major component of the actin cytoskeleton and is found in most eukaryotic cells that have an actin cytoskeleton.

According to the magazine, each of the idea, approach and methodology used is unique and distinct, and provides a better conception of how actin nucleation begins, which will help basic and therapeutic research to answer more complex questions and diseases related to the actin filament cycle.

In a statement to Al-Jazeera Net via social media (WhatsApp), Muhammad Shaaban says, "I am very happy with this honor in particular for several reasons, the most important of which is that it is an award granted by a prestigious institution, and because it was nominated by my professors in the United States, and because the award's jury includes high-ranking personalities." ".

He added, "Although this honor is a personal tribute to me, it is a tribute to the work team, and to our discovery, which has become one of three important discoveries in this field.. On this occasion, I am pleased to extend my sincere thanks and appreciation to everyone who has supported me over the past years, especially my professors at The United States of America and the United Kingdom.

Innovators Under 35 Award

MIT Technology Review Arabia has been organizing the “Innovators Without 35 MENA” award annually since 2018. It is the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) version of the global award that was launched in 1999 by MIT Technology Review, and included international names. Such as Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, and Sergey Brin, founder of Google.

The "Innovators Under 35" award from MIT Technology Review is a list of the world's most prominent and important innovators under the age of thirty-five.

It aims to honor a group of young innovators, male and female, who presented the most interesting and interesting inventions and studies.

Winners of the Arabic version of the "Innovators Under 35" Award for the year 2022 (MIT Technology Review platform)

The “Innovators Under 35” award includes the brightest minds, including technical experts, male and female researchers, scientists and scientists.

Since its inception in 2018, 55 innovators from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Kuwait, Tunisia, Algeria, Oman, the Emirates, Turkey and the United States have won the award.

It is noteworthy that three of the winners of the Innovators Under 35 Award for the year 2019 won the global version of the competition in 2020, and they are: the Emirati Ghina Al-Hinai, the Palestinian Omar Abu Dayya, and the Tunisian Mohamed Dawafi.

MIT Technology Review Arabia selected 15 male and female innovators for the "Innovators Under 35" award in its fifth edition, and they are Muhammad Shaaban, Jihad Al-Damlawi, David Gerges, and Dalia Muhammad Hassan, from Egypt, and from Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Al-Abd Al-Karim, Alaa Al-Ahmadi, and Fahd Al. Quraysha, and the valleys of Babtain.

Among the other countries are Tasneem Al Harahsheh, a Jordanian, Asma Abdullah, a Lebanese, Asma Al Amoudi, a Yemeni, Hilda Ghodia, a Lebanese, Ayoub Kulei, a Moroccan, and Ghada Al Hussein, a Syrian.