Other Names: Ibrahim Pasha University
Address: Ain Shams University, Abbassia 11566, Cairo, Faculty of Science: El Khalifa El Mamoon Street
Location: Cairo
Phone Number: (202) 4820230; (202) 6831474; (202) 6831231; (202) 6831492; (202) 6831417; (202) 6831090
Email: info@asunet.shams.edu.eg
Website: http://asunet.shams.eun.eg/
Subordinate to: Government of Egypt
Size: Seven campuses, throughout Cairo. 100,000 undergraduate students, 30,000 graduate students, and 3,000 faculty members. Within its Faculty of Science that are 23 individual departments.
Primary Function: Higher Education, Research
History: Ain-Shams University, originally named Ibrahim Pasha University, was founded in 1950 and was Egypt's third university.

Activities:
An article in the Spring-Summer 1998 Non-Proliferation Review mentions that Aim-Shams University began studying sulfur and nitrogen mustard and organophosphorous nerve agents such as sarin and VX-related compounds after the 1973 Yom Kippur war.

The University houses the Center for Genetic Engineering and Bio-technology, which supports all research projects dealing with genetic engineering and biotechnology within the faculties and different research units located at the university. The university also oversees the Research and Training Center on Vectors of Diseases, which was established in 1980 and works with specialized medical institutions throughout Egypt to increase awareness of disease prevention.

Key Sources: Ain-Shams University Website, <http://asunet.shams.eun.eg/>; Dany Shoham, "Chemical and Biological Weapons in Egypt," Nonproliferation Review, (Spring/Summer 1998), vol. 5, no. 3., p. 49, <http://cnsinfo.miis.edu/db/npr/vol05/53/shoham53.pdf>.

	Updated February 2004