Wellcome Trust Investigator Award Lister Research Fellowship Prize Sherif El- Khamisy is an Egyptian Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.
He is the Director of Research and Innovation and co-founder of the Healthy Life Span Institute, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
In 2006, he was a post doctoral fellow at the Department of Genetics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, US.
In 2013, he became a Reader at Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield and in the same year he became the group leader of Wellcome Trust.
He received The State Award for Medical Sciences in 2011 and the Lister Research Fellowship Prize in 2015.