.:: Theodor Bilharz Research Institute ::.

Prof. Dr. Sanaa Botros was awarded the Arab Women Organization Award for Science and Technology 2008 and the African Union Women Scientists 2009 |||| Prof.Dr.Yasser Samhan and Prof.Dr.Hossam Helmi got an award from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology for their invention that ranked the 2nd among all the applicants of the contest who participated in the Euro-Mediterranean Innovation Market |||| The Fourth Annual Scientific Meeting between Theodor Bilharz Research Institute and Beaujon Hospital (France) |||| Theodor Bilharz Research Institute and Arab Women Investors Union in collaboration with International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies ||||


	TBRI is a medical research and training institution affiliated to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. It was founded upon an agreement, in 1964, between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Egyptian Government and was inaugurated in June 1978. TBRI collaborates with the WHO in the control of schistosomiasis in the Middle East. TBRI hosts the World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO) Cairo Training Center (CTC) in Africa.


	THEODOR BILHARZ THE SCIENTIST Theodor Maximilian Bilharz, the German physician and parasitologist was born March 23, 1825 in Sigmaringen. He is the discoverer of bilharzia worms in the corpse of an Egyptian during his work in the Egyptian School of Medicine in Cairo (1851). He died on the 9th of January, 1862 (39YS) and was buried in the German Cemetery in Cairo.


	RESEARCH DIVISIONS The structure of TBRI includes six research divisions that encompass 20 research departments. They cover a wide spectrum of academic and clinical specialities in the field of tropical endemic diseases and their complications.


	INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION CENTER The information and documentation center consists of five units: decision support, library, documentation and publication, computer and information technology, information systems and statistics.


	TRAINING & WORKSHOPS Different level training courses in the field of control and management of tropical endemic diseases and their complications are arranged by TBRI departments to suit the requirements of trainees from local, regional and international scientific institutions . These training courses cope with the recent technological advances.


	HOSPITAL The hospital comprises 300 beds, 6 outpatient clinics, 11 specialized units, 3 operation theatres, 24 hours emergency unit, blood bank, nursing school pharmacy and laboratories serving the inpatients, the emergency cases and the outpatient clinics.

SNAIL RESEARCH STATION

This station was established in 1980 for running snail researches under simulated natural conditions. It is 4000 square meter, located 25 kilometers far from Cairo. It has 18 parallel ditches with muddy bottoms and sloping banks each 30 m long. Two channels at right angles to the ditches serve as common feeding and draining channels. This system of experimental ditches is supplied by underground water (40 m deep). It includes two field laboratories.

THEODOR BILHARZ THE SCIENTIST

RESEARCH DIVISIONS

INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION CENTER

TRAINING & WORKSHOPS

HOSPITAL

SNAIL RESEARCH STATION