Upon completion of her PhD in Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA, Dr. Samar at Ain Shams Faculty of Medicine directed research in basic cancer research. This led to the publication of many articles in cancer diagnosis and follow up where she helped establishing detection systems for many epithelial cancers using tumor and genetic markers. At 2002, she joined Glasgow Caledonian University where she identified the differences between breast and ovarian cancers in the Androgen receptor gene methylation and exon one CAG repeat length. Dr. Kassim also joined important research in molecular events accompanying hepatitis C viral infections among Egyptian patients. She helped the development of Bioinformatics Master and undergraduate programs in Helwan and Ain Shams Universities. She is the Co-PI of the Egyptian node of the H3ABioNet granted by the NIH through which published in Science Magazine (H3Africa consortium, 2014). Dr. Kassim contributed in the development of recommended Bioinformatics curricula by H3ABioNet. She Currently leads the Precision Medicine Portal Working group of H3ABioNet through which they published their first review article about Pharmacogenetics in African in Precision Medicine. Lately she contributed in Nature publication studying human migration in Africa (Choudhury A et al, 2020). Dr. Kassim currently leads the Computational Biology Team At MASRI Research Institute, Ain Shams University.