Head of Tumor Biology Research Program
Education:
- B.Sc. Excellent with First Class Honors, Ain Shams University, Egypt, (1988).
- M.Sc. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan (1994).
- Ph.D. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan (1997).
Professional Memberships
| 6/1990 – present | Egyptian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science |
| 4/1993 – 3/1997 | The Japanese Chemical Society |
| 12/2006 – present | The American Society for Cell Biology |
| 7/2007 – present | The Society for Neuroscience |
| 2/2011 – 2013 | Society for Experimental Biology |
| 7/2015 – present | The Mitochondria Physiology Society |
| 2018-present | Member in the Egyptian National Committee of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| 2020-present | Member in the Technical Advisory Committee, Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology |
| 07/2010 – present | Executive Editor, Journal of Nanomedicine & Biotherapeutic Discovery. |
| 08/2010 – present | Associate Editor, BMC Research Notes. |
| 08/2011 – present | Editor, Journal of Analytical Sciences, Methods, and Instrumentation. |
| 02/2013 – present | Editor, BMC Biology |
| 10/2016 – present | Editor, Reactive Oxygen Species |
Awards:
| 2/1987 | Medal for the Ideal Student in Ain Shams University, Egypt. |
| 7/1988 | Excellence and First Class Honor Award, Ain Shams University, Egypt. |
| 10/1991 | Mumboshu’s Master and Ph.D. Scholarships from the Japanese Ministry of Education and Agriculture. |
| 10/1998 | Postdoctoral Award, Technical University Graz, Austria |
| 10/2000 | Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Department of Chemistry, Washington University in Saint Louis, U.S.A. |
| 6/2002 | Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Neurology Department, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A. |
| 9/2007 | Mentored Quantitative Career Development Award, National Institute on Aging. |
| 9/2008 | Pilot Grant Award from the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, UCSD. |
| 7/2009 | Elected Valedictorian for the 2009 class of the Workshop of the National Center for Leadership in Academic Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCSD. |
| 7/2014 | Selected member in the International Scientific Committee of Bioblast and Global Mitochondria Network. |
| 4/2017 | Chairman of Zewail City Conference on Biomedical Sciences. |
| 02/2018 | Excellence in Research Award, 7th Interntational Conference on Mathematics & Information Sciences, Sohag, Egypt. |
| 2018 – | Member in the Egyptian National Committee of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| 2020 – | Member in the Technical Advisory Committee, Egyptian Academy of Scientific Resaerch and Technology |
| 10/2020 | State Excellence Award in Basic Sciences |
Selected Publications:
World ranking of my work according to Impactio Metrics https://www.impactio.com/researcher/sameh-ali
- Top 0.04% in Endocrinology
- Top 0.25% in Internal Medicine
- Top 1.12% in Biochemistry
- Top 1.74% in Biology
- Top 3.34% in Chemistry
http://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?hl=en&user=xiUwtxEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&cstart=20
- Behrens, MM, Ali, SS, Dao, DN, Lucero, J, Shekhtman, G, Quick, KL, Dugan, LL. (2007) Brain NADPH-oxidase mediates ketamine effects on parvalbumin-expressing fast-spiking interneurons. Science 318:1645-1647. IF: 41.06.
- Ali SS*, Hardt JI, and Dugan LL (2008) SOD activity of carboxyfullerenes predicts their neuroprotective efficacy: A structure-activity study. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, 4(4):283-294. IF: 6.69.
- Abdel-Rahman E, Mahmoud AM, Khalifa A, Sameh S Ali* (2016). Physiological and pathophysiological ROS as probed by EPR spectroscopy: The underutilized research window on muscle aging. J. Physiol., 2016 Aug 15;594(16):4591-613. doi: 10.1113/JP271471. IF: 4.74.
- Asmaa Reda, Alaa Refaat, Ahmed A. Abd-Rabou, Ali Mahmoud, Mohamed Adel and Sameh S. Ali* (2019) Role of Mitochondria in rescuing glycolytically inhibited subpopulation of triple negative but not hormone-responsive breast cancer cells. Scientific Reports. 9 (1), 1-15. IF: 4.01.
- Engy A.Abdel Rahman, Salma Hosseiny, Abdullah Aaliya, Mohamed Adel, Basma Yasseen, Abdelrahman Al-Okda, Yasmine Radwan, Saber H.Saber, Nada Elkholy, Eslam Elhanafy, Emily E. Walker, Juan P.Zuniga-Hertz, Hemal H.Patel, Helen R.Griffiths, Sameh S.Ali*. (2021) Sleep/wake calcium dynamics, respiratory function, and ROS production in cardiac mitochondria. J. Adv. Res., Volume 31, July 2021, Pages 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jare.2021.01.006. IF: 10.4.
- Mohamed A Badawy, Basma A Yasseen, Riem M El-Messiery, Engy A Abdel-Rahman, Aya A Elkhodiry, Azza G Kamel, Hajar El-sayed, Asmaa M Shedra, Rehab Hamdy, Mona Zidan, Diaa Al-Raawi, Mahmoud Hammad, Nahla Elsharkawy, Mohamed El Ansary, Ahmed Al-Halfawy, Alaa Elhadad, Ashraf Hatem, Sherif Abouelnaga, Laura L Dugan, Sameh Saad Ali (2021). Neutrophil-mediated oxidative stress and albumin structural damage predict COVID-19-associated mortality. eLife 2021;10:e69417. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.69417. IF: 8.0.