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Noha graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University in 2010. She soon pursued her dream career of becoming a researcher, and a teaching assistant in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. In 2013, Noha obtained her Masters degree working on the role of the Universal Stress Protein A in the physiology and virulence of the bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii. Then, Noha obtained her Ph.D. in 2016 working on characterizing type II secretion system in A. baumannii, and showed how it contributes to its pathogenesis. Noha performed this work in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Stephen Lory in Harvard Medical School, USA.

Noha is currently working as a lecturer in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University

Her research interests include: molecular pathogenesis, secretomes analyses, lipases, gene expression profiling, and screening mutants libraries

Hanzada got her Bachelor Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2010 then joined the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the Faculty of Pharmacy Cairo University as a teaching assistant. She worked on a nosocomial study of colonized and infectious MRSA to fulfill her Master’s degree. Hanzada defended her Master’s thesis earlier in 2015. Then she working on her Ph.D. project targeting the optimization of the production and purification of lysostaphin and its application to fight staphylococcal infections. Hanzada's work was under the supervision of Dr. Attia together with Prof. Dr. Manal M. Maher at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University. Hanzada got her PhD in mid 2020.

Currently, Hanzada is a lecturer in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the Faculty of Pharmacy Cairo University, and her research interests include looking for novel antimicrobial agents especially those effective against formidable pathogens.