Ahmed Gaffer Hegazi

Ahmed Gaffer Hegazi, also written Ahmed Hegazi, was born on 31 May 1948 and is a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the Department of Zoonotic Diseases at the National Research Centre in Egypt. He took his master's degree in 1979 and his doctorate in 1981. His recent research has centred on bee products and their therapeutic effects, the field known as apitherapy, and he is president of the Egyptian Environmental Society for Uses and Production of Bee Products, secretary of the Egyptian Society of Apitherapy and a member of the International Apitherapy Commission of Apimondia. The source credits him with 166 published papers and several patents for drugs derived from natural products, among them one for psoriasis and one for fascioliasis. Egyptian prizes in 1989, 1990 and 1996 are listed. This entry records his career and does not assess the clinical evidence for apitherapy.