Mustafa(pbuh) Prize News

Dr. Ali S. Hadi, an outstanding Egyptian scholar in statistics, is a former distinguished visiting professor at the American University in Cairo and an emeritus professor at Cornell University.
He has published numerous articles in his areas of expertise: advanced statistics, data analysis, and applied statistics. He has specifically conducted research on outliers data points that lie outside the majority of the data in a particular data set.
 

Samia Khoury is a symbol of hope who rose above the ashes of war to achieve international acclaim in science.

Dr. Yasir Waheed, prominent Pakistani professor and member of the advisory board of the Mustafa^(pbuh) Science and Technology Foundation, discussed the most urgent issues in the developing countries and his research on health problems.

The 2025 Young Scientist Medal winner, Buse Cevatemre Yildirim, has unlocked the smart mechanism of cancer cells that enables them to evade chemotherapy. 

The 2025 Young Scientist Medal winner, Buse Cevatemre Yildirim, has cracked the code of cancer tumors’ drug resistance, paving the path to a definite treatment of cancer. 

In our in-depth interview, Professor Amin Shokrollahi went through his love for mathematics that arose from his early family teachings, his studies in Germany, and tying his learnings with the industry and entrepreneurship in different countries.

  “Our research team at Royan Institute is prepared to transplant stem cells to human body for treating Parkinson’s disease,” says Dr. Hossein Baharvand, a faculty member at Royan Institute. 

Mohammad Amin Shokrollahi, a Mustafa^(pbuh) Prize laureate who has revolutionized digital communication by combining number theory and the science of coding, talks about his journey through life.

Omar Yaghi, prominent chemist and professor at California University, a 2015 Mustafa^(pbuh) Prize laureate and a Nobel Prize winner, maintains that a new generation of materials, to whose formation he has contributed significantly, are likely to revolutionize the next century. Only a few grams of these Crystalline and extremely porous materials called Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs ), can have an internal surface area comparable to the size of a soccer field.