Nagy Habib Explained

Nagy Habib
Nationality:British, Egyptian
Occupation:Surgeon
Known For:Radio-frequency based surgical devices
Profession:Liver surgeon
Work Institutions:Imperial College, London
Research Field:

Nagy Habib (born 1952) is a British-Egyptian professor of hepato-biliary surgery at Imperial College, London, and is known for devising radio-frequency based liver resection devices which remove liver tumour with minimal blood loss. His work has also focused on stem cells and gene therapy.

Early life and education

Nagy Habib was born in Cairo, Egypt, 1952.[1] He trained under both and the transplant surgeon Thomas Starzl.[2]

Career

His work has focused on stem cells and gene therapy.[3] He led the first clinical trial in the use of oncolytic adenoviruses for the treatment of liver cancer.[4] It was carried out by means of a locally restricted injection into the main blood vessel to the liver.[5] [6] The findings were published in 2001.[5] [6] It was found to be safe, but the second phase of the trial did not find it effective.[5] [6] In 2004, he took stem cells from a person with liver cirrhosis and injected them into their liver artery, resulting in some improvement of liver function.[7]

In 2003 he was appointed professor of hepato-biliary surgery at Imperial College, London.[8] In June 2007 he was appointed pro-rector for Commercial Affairs at Imperial.[4]

Habib developed several radio-frequency (RF) based liver resection devices.[9] [10] He devised the Habib RF device using the Habib needle, which has a modified version called the Habib 4X.[10] It removes tumour with minimal blood loss.[10] The procedure has come to be known as 'Habib's resection'.[11]

MiNA Therapeutics, a biotechnology company dealing in small activating RNA technology was co-founded by Habib and his son Robert.[12]

Awards and honours

He was awarded the Takreem award in December 2012, for his work in liver cancer and radio-frequency based liver resection.[4]

Selected publications

Articles

Books

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Habib Nagy / Curriculum Vitae. 2021-11-28. www.s466593873.onlinehome.fr.
  2. Web site: Interview with Nagy Habib . https://web.archive.org/web/20211129153415/https://www.oligotherapeutics.org/interview-with-nagy-habib/. 29 November 2021. Oligonucleutide Therapeutic Society . 27 November 2021 . 8 January 2019.
  3. Sugand . Kapil . Hills . Alexander . Professor Nagy Habib . . 22 March 2008 . 336 . 7645 . s109 . 10.1136/bmj.39510.543056.CE . 80337462 . en . 0959-8138.
  4. Web site: Home - Professor Nagy Habib . https://web.archive.org/web/20211127172832/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/nagy.habib. 27 November 2021. www.imperial.ac.uk . 27 November 2021.
  5. Book: Doerfler . Walter . Böhm . Petra . Adenoviruses: Model and Vectors in Virus-Host Interactions: Immune System, Oncogenesis, Gene Therapy . 2013 . Springer . 978-3-662-05599-1 . 316–320 . en.
  6. Avila . M. A. . Berasain . C. . Sangro . B. . Prieto . J. . New therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma . Oncogene . June 2006 . 25 . 27 . 3866–3884 . 10.1038/sj.onc.1209550 . 6799628 . 10171/27496 . 8901643 . en . 1476-5594. free .
  7. Book: Nill . Kimball . Glossary of Biotechnology Terms, Fourth Edition . 2005 . CRC Press . Boca Raton . 0-8493-6609-7 . 9 . 4th . en.
  8. Web site: Professor Nagy Habib . https://web.archive.org/web/20211129153845/https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/consultant-directory/nagy-habib. 29 November 2021. www.imperial.nhs.uk . 28 November 2021 . en.
  9. Book: Krestanova . Alice . Kracmar . Jan . Hlavackova . Milada . Kubicek . Jan . Vavra . Petr . Penhaker . Marek . Ihnat . Petr . Pietka . Ewa . Badura . Pawel . Kawa . Jacek . Wieclawek . Wojciech . Information Technology in Biomedicine . 2019 . Springer . 978-3-030-23761-5 . 638 . https://books.google.com/books?id=U0efDwAAQBAJ&dq=Nagy+Habib&pg=PA638 . en . Design and testing of radio frequency instrument RONLINE.
  10. Book: Kumaran . Vinay . Techniques of Liver Surgery . 2016 . JP Medical Ltd . New Delhi . 978-93-85891-56-4 . 15 . https://books.google.com/books?id=C0iJDAAAQBAJ&dq=Nagy+Habib&pg=PA15 . en . 2. Techniques for transection of the liver.
  11. Book: Penhaker . Marek . Vavra . Petr . Hlavackova . Mlada . Kracmar . Jan . Sikora . Tadeusz . Prokop . Lucas . Madarász . Ladislav . Živčák . Jozef . Aspects of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Applications: Revised and Selected Papers of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems 2011, INES 2011 . 2012 . Springer . 978-3-642-30668-6 . 308 . https://books.google.com/books?id=6UepGENufkoC&dq=Nagy+Habib&pg=PA308 . en . Linear surgical instrument for bipolar multi electrode radiofrquency ablation.
  12. News: Ralph . Alex . Father and son pioneers at MiNA Therapeutics clinch US pharma deal . 8 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211208063734/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/father-and-son-pioneers-at-mina-therapeutics-clinch-us-pharma-deal-nwd7fh7l9. 8 December 2021. The Times . 12 May 2021 . en.

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