Within the framework of working on the diagnosis of societal problems, the effective contribution to overcome them and the activation of scientific research in the fields of societal responsibility for contribution to meet the needs of society and sustainable development service, the president Prof Dr Maged el Kemary receives Philip, doctorate student from Stirling University, Scotland and have three-month scientific mission at Kafrelsheikh University funded by scientific project between the two universities in the field of diagnosis tilapia diseases, reducing its impact or its spread in fish farms.

This meeting includes following-up work in the research project, discussing research results, harnessing the university possibilities for project success, finding solutions that contribute to increase fish resistance to diseases and reducing the loss to meet the growing demand on fishes.

As well, el Kemary points out that this project aims to find a solution to the ambiguity of the death of Egyptian tilapia in some seasons.  

It is worth mentioning that the president does a visit for United Kingdom last week to participate in workshops with Scottish side, donors and industrial sector to discuss the outputs of scientific project, develop and encourage the fields of scientific cooperation between the two universities and maximize the benefit from project outputs and future work plan.