Lara Nasser Eddine winner of the Abdel Hameed Shuman research award

The Abdel Hameed Shuman award for Arab scientists for 2014 was bestowed to Lara Nasser Eddine, the head of the Food Technology and Nutrition Department and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut.  The award is in recognition of Nasser Eddine pioneer research on obesity and diet-related diseases.  The award was also shared with Dr. Nasser Ben Mohammed Dagheri, professor at the King Saoud University in KSA. The Abdel Hameed Shuman award for Arab scientists was launched in 1982 and seeks t to contribute to solving priority problems at the local, regional and international levels, support and encourage Arab scientific research. The award also seeks to recognize distinguished scientific research as well as share scientific and applied knowledge in the region and raise awareness on scientific research.

(Source: Al Akhbar, August 17th 2015)