Autism & fragile X syndrome

Prof. Dr. Nagwa A. Meguid: Autism & fragile X syndrome | TED Talk

Prof. Dr. Nagwa is a leading scientist at Egypt National Research Center. She talks about her efforts & research in helping mothers be aware of Fragile X Syndrome. Dr. Nagwa holds her Ph.D. in Human Genetics at NRC. She is a Senior Geneticist at the Genetics Institute, California and Yale University; a fellow of Uppsala University, Sweden. She won L’Oreal UNESCO Award for Women in Science for Africa & Middle East (2002) and the National State Award of Excellence in Advanced Technology. She is the Founder of the Autistic Research group in the NRC (National Research Centre, Egypt). She supervised around 70 Ph. D. and Masters theses. She has more than100 publications.