Dr. Islam M. Saadeldin obtained his Ph.D. degree from Seoul National University, South Korea. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University, was a visiting scholar at Niigata University, Japan, and was an Associate Professor at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. Currently, he is a Research Professor at Chungnam National University, South Korea. He has a patent of invention regarding bovine embryo transgenesis through piggybac transposons, and he authored more than 160 research papers, reviews, and book chapters covering the fields of advanced reproductive biotechnology, such as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), transgenesis, and adult and embryonic stem cells, as well as elucidating the roles of extracellular vesicles in embryo communication and the embryonic-maternal crosstalk. His current research focuses on developing CRISPR/Cas9 engineered extracellular vesicles for improving embryo implantation and pregnancy of cloned and transgenic animals. He has been awarded several national and international prizes, such as the Egyptian State Prize, Shoman Prize, Almarai Prize, Misr Elkheir prize, The Interstellar Initiative for young investigators, the International Embryo Technology Society (IETS) Early Career Achievement Award, and AUA Scholar Award.
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