Dr. Shahenda El Naggar Attends Training Workshop in Boston, MA in November 2011

Tag Archives: fundraising campaign

In order for CCHE to provide top care, it must recruit top physicians and professions and stay on the cutting edge. In order to do these things, it must have a robust research program. Part of ensuring that CCHE lives up to these standards is educational sponsorship for its distinguished professionals.

Dr. Shahenda ElNaggar, Head of Basic Research at CCHE 57357 paid a visit to Boston, MA, USA in November 2011 to attend a workshop organised by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) entitled “Translational Research for Basic Scientists”. The workshop focused on drug development, visits to several departments at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and site visits to various clinics around Boston, among other important topics.

Her visit also allowed her to spend a week at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute being trained in neurosphere and slice culture, two techniques needed for valuable research at CCHE. In doing so, Dr. ElNaggar was able to establish collaborative relationships with several skilled oncology professionals from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In her free time, Dr. ElNaggar had the chance to visit Boston University’s Egyptian Club, just as they were beginning their BU Challenge fundraising campaign for CCHE.

Her visit was proudly sponsored by ECN as part of our ongoing effort to aid our excellent staff in enhancing their knowledge, thereby improving the quality of treatment at CCHE.

Please visit this page again in the near future as we will be updating it regularly with new information on the impact of this visit and projects associated with it.

Mr. Ibrahim Higazy, a renowned sports presenter and journalist, was welcomed by Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 (CCHE) in the third week of October 2012 and spent his time encouraging the patients. In doing so he referenced his history as a soldier in the Egyptian army in the 1970s, during which he served Egypt in a particularly trying time in the region’s history.

It was eleven years ago that Mr. Higazy helped spur the fundraising campaign amongst secondary school and college students to raise 22 million Egyptian pounds to build the original CCHE complex. Mr. Higazy has again vouched his support for the expansion of the current CCHE campus, the next major project at hand, to which ECN is a major contributor.

Noting his service in his conversations with the children, he attested to the fact that “cancer itself is a difficult battle” but that the compassionate treatment that CCHE 57357 gives its patients lessens the burden. He was extremely impressed by CCHE not only for its existence as a state-of-the-art pediatric oncology center, but also by the quality of the services provided to children for free. In his closing words to a small assembled audience of Egyptian and American expatriates, he remarked that a visit to CCHE would prove to anyone that anything is possible when people work together as a team.