Samera Ibrahim Islam سميرة إسلام
Full Name: Samira Ibrahim Islam.
Arabic: سميرة إسلام
Origin: al-Hafuf, al-Ahsaa, Saudi Arabia.
Famous for:
- First Saudi full professor in Pharmacology in 1983 .
- She is the first Saudi woman to obtain Bachelor and Ph.D degrees.
- First Saudi woman to become a professor of pharmacology.
- She is also the first to introduce formal university education for girls in the Kingdom.
- The first woman vice dean in a Saudi university.
- First Muslim and Arab woman to be nominated by UNESCO as a distinguished Scientist of the World For the Year 2000
- First Saudi woman and the second Saudi Arabian to hold an official staff position in the World Health Organization (WHO)
She heads King Fahd Medical Research Center’s Drug Monitoring Unit at King Abdulaziz University.
Contributions:
Drug metabolism as it pertains to the Saudi population.
She founded and heads the Drug Monitoring Unit of King Fahd Medical Research Center at King Abdulaziz University.
She is on the board of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation.
Muslim Science, a UK-based online magazine, has named two Saudis in its top 20 list of most influential Muslim women in the scientific field.
Articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samira_Islam