Dr. Shymaa Enany is a professor of microbiology at Suez Canal University and the Armed Forces College of Medicine in Cairo, Egypt. She earned her PhD from Niigata University in Japan and completed postdoctoral research in both the USA and Japan. Among the first Arab scientists to employ bacterial proteomics, she identified key microbial markers relevant to community health.

Her achievements have earned wide recognition, including the International Science Council Award for Early Career Scientist in Africa (2021), Egypt’s State Encouragement Prize for Women in Health and Pharmaceutical Sciences (2019), and the TWAS Young Arab Scientist Prize in Medical Sciences (2018). She serves as the Arab Regional Executive Board Member of OWSD and is active in the Global Young Academy, the Egyptian Young Academy of Science, and the World Academy of Sciences. She also contributes as a reviewer, evaluator, and member of numerous national and international scientific bodies.

Dr. Enany serves on the scientific committee of the World Forum for Women in Science, the global Open Science Group, and the Global Burden of Disease project. As a member of Egypt’s Microbiology National Committee, she promotes research aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She represented Egypt as a Next Einstein Forum Ambassador (2019–2022), highlighting African scientists on the global stage. She also co-chairs the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition (Immunology, Virology, and Diagnostics Working Group) for low- and middle-income countries and was recently named an African Science Leadership Program Fellow.