Somali Scientists

[Khayr]

This is definitely inspirational and we need to focus more on the inspiration, MashaAllah.

[Chimera]

Mesa College Student wins prestigious award in science competition‏

 

 

SAN DIEGO–A 26-year-old refugee from Somalia and San Diego community college student has bested some of today’s top scientific student minds in a highly competitive international science competition. Mohamed Musse, one of our four Mesa College students who presented research at the 10^th Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), held in November in Charlotte, North Carolina, was the recipient of a prestigious award for his poster participation.

 

Mohamed’s research project and poster entry was called “Micro-Purification of Phosphofructokinase-1.” His entry competed against 154 research abstracts submitted to ABRCMS in the Biochemical Sciences, Biochemistry category by students from top universities and research institutes. Only twelve awards were given in this category.

 

Mohamed’s winning entry was based on experience and research he gained during a summer internship working at UCSD under the guidance of Dr. Percy Russell and Anita Williams, who supervised his research. It was in Dr. Russell’s laboratory that Mohamed learned about research, and acquired experience in advanced lab techniques, and purifying proteins in a micro-scale. The award consists of a gold medallion, a certificate of recognition, and monetary scholarship.

 

Mohamed is a student at San Diego Mesa College and a scholar in the college’s Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program. “This is an outstanding achievement and accomplishment for Mohamed, for our College, and for our UCSD research mentors,” said Elizabeth J. Armstrong, interim president of Mesa College.

 

According to Ed Alexander, Mesa College chemistry professor and Bridges program director, research abstracts were competitively submitted to ABRCMS. Only 150 students from ten unique divisions received poster presentation awards. Of these, only nine were awarded to community college students, and Mohamed’s entry was the only award given to a community college student in the biochemical sciences division. This was the first time a Mesa College student presentation has won an award in that division.

 

“The accomplishments of Mohamed and all our Bridges students are a tribute to the outstanding quality of education afforded to students by our faculty at San Diego Mesa College,” said Dr. Alexander.

 

The Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program at Mesa College is a science education program designed to support the success of community college students from underrepresented groups or populations affected by health disparities, who plan to transfer and earn a bachelor’s degree in biomedical, behavioral or related sciences (www. sdmesa.edu/bridges).

 

The program is funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD).

ABRCMS is the largest professional conference for biomedical and behavior students. This year’s conference attracted approximately 3,100 undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scientists, faculty and administrators. The conference serves as a key experience for participants, and to the development of young scientists.

 

San Diego County News

[Taleexi]

A small world that is ... I and Mohamed met last night for entertaining ourselves some differential equations.... he is pound to UCSD......... in the fall. Wishing him well

[Abwaan]

Taleexi, somebody who looks like this young man just walked past where I am sitting at the Ardaaga if you know what I mean. Are you telling me that is him? lol

[Legend of Zu]

Bal ukaadsha. waa qoloma dadkan aad meesha noogu soo taxdeen. so reera malaha saynisyahaniintani? LoL

jokes aside...

 

Walaahi it is fantastic we always hear how our community are not studing and doing all sorts of bad things. it is great to hear the good stuff that we also do!

 

Well done Chimera

[Abwaan]

Guess what Taleexi, that is him.

[Taleexi]

Lol @ Abwaan...... let us catch up bro.

[Complete]

MashAllah to all and Alhamdulillah. If only we could focus on these success stories instead of our failures.

 

Chimera;711600 wrote:

Mesa College Student wins prestigious award in science competition‏

 

MashAllah. I personally know this brother. It's refreshing to see and hear someone from Mesa making it in the paper. Great love for Mesa College.

[Som@li]

Great stuff...

[Liqaye]

Great and excellent positive thread

[Polanyi]

good stuff. Lakin xage waxan ka kenta?lol.

[OdaySomali]

Great topic. BUMP.

[OdaySomali]

Ahmed Samatar

 

Scientist at Schering Plough - Merck & Co.

 

Schering-Plough manufactured several pharmaceutical drugs, the most well-known of which were the allergy drugs Claritin and Clarinex, an anti-cholesterol drug Vytorin, and a brain tumor drug Temodar. As of June 2005[update], Schering-Plough had 1.4% market share in the U.S., placing it seventeenth in the top twenty pharmaceutical corporations by sales compiled by IMS Health.

[Chimera]

Abdullahi Elmi - Electrical Engineer - Winner of the 2008 Mesa Robotics competition.

 

- Worked with a team to build a fully autonomous robot capable of playing a

game of Robot Pool.

 

- Constructed a color detecting circuit using sensors to identify ball color.

 

- Build a temperature controlled fan that changes speed according to temperature.

 

- Part of the Rick Rob engineering team:

 

 

 

http://rickrob.sdsu.edu/theteam.htm

[Chimera]

Researchers at Cardiff University's Biosciences dept. working with Frankincense. Pictured is Dr. Ahmed Ali (research director for the Compton Group) using a purification column to purify the Frankincense. He is pictured with Prof. Vic Duance (centre director of Arthritis Research UK Biomechanics and Bioengineering Centre.) and Dr. Emma Blain (research fellow).

 

An age old cure

 

The answer to treating painful arthritis could lie in an age old herbal remedy - frankincense, according to University research.

 

Scientists from the School of Biosciences have been examining the potential benefits of frankincense to help relieve and alleviate the symptoms of the condition.

 

"The search for new ways of relieving the symptoms of inflammatory arthritis and osteoarthritis is a long and difficult one," according to Dr Emma Blain, who leads the research with her co-investigators Professor Vic Duance from the School of Biosciences and Dr Ahmed Ali of the Compton Group.

 

"The South West of England and Wales has a long standing connection with the Somali community who have used extracts of frankincense as a traditional herbal remedy for arthritic conditions. What our research has focused on is whether and how these extracts can help relieve the inflammation that causes the pain," she added.

 

The Cardiff scientists believe they have been able to demonstrate that treatment with an extract of Boswellia frereana – a rare frankincense species – inhibits the production of key inflammatory molecules which helps prevent the breakdown of the cartilage tissue which causes the condition.

 

Dr Ali adds: "The search for new drugs to alleviate the symptoms of conditions like inflammatory arthritis and osteoarthritis is a priority area for scientists. What our research has managed to achieve is to use innovative chemical extraction techniques to determine the active ingredient in frankincense.

 

"Having done this we are now able to further characterise the chemical entity and compare its success against other anti-inflammatory drugs used for treating the condition."

 

The research comes as a result of a seedcorn project, funded by the Severnside Alliance for Translational Research (SARTRE), through the MRC Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme devolved portfolio.

 

SARTRE is a joint project between Cardiff University and the University of Bristol to combine and accelerate translational research.

 

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/articles/an-age-old-cure-6841.html