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Nagy A. Habib

Nagy A. Habib MBBCh, FRCS (Ed)

Surgery
London, England, United Kingdom

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Nagy Habib is a leading translational researcher on liver cancer and its treatment. He pioneered the first clinical trial in the use of adenovirus and plasmid for the treatment of liver cancer, as well as the use of plasmid gene therapy in hydrodynamic gene delivery. He is the first person in the West to publish a clinical trial on the use of adult bone marrow-derived stem cells for the treatment of patients with liver insufficiency.

He has published on the evolution of molecular biology of tumors from oncogene, tumor suppressor gene, epigenetic modification, gene therapy, stem cell therapy, RNA (Ribonucleic acid), and saRNA (small activating RNA) and RNA aptamers.

He is the inventor of and was co-author of the first publication about the use of radiofrequency in devices used in liver surgery (Habib 4X), as well as interventional endoscopy (Habib EndoHPB – HPB: Hepatopancreatobiliary) and interventional radiology (Habib Percutaneous HPB, Habib VesCoag, Habib VesOpen).

He holds a gold award from the Advisory Committee for Clinical Excellence, which is given in recognition of exceptional contributions from NHS consultants, and he was named as one of Britain’s top surgeons in December 2011 by the Saturday Times Magazine. In December 2012, he was awarded the TAKREEM AWARD for Science and Technology for scientific work in liver cancer and the technological development of the Habib 4X surgical device.
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