Rashika El Ridi

Rashika Ahmed Fathi El Ridi (Arabic: رشيقة احمد فتحي الرضي) is a professor of Immunology at the Department of Zoology Faculty of Science at Cairo University.Her speciality includes immunobiology and developing a vaccine for schistosomiasis.

[2] In October 2009, Professor Rashika El Ridi won the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science for Africa and the Arab countries and was among the five most achieving women in the world.

In their statement about Professor El Ridi, the voting committee for the prize said in a statement that the awarding of that recognition was given to professor El Ridi based on her contribution to the development of a vaccine to eradicate the cycle of schistosomiasis, a tropical disease infecting more than 200 million people in the world.

[3] As of 2024, professor El Ridi has over 160 articles to her name, and her work has been cited more that 3900 times [4]

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