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2021, 2022, and 2023 by Elsevier and Stanford University. In 2014, he was awarded the Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils Prize for excellent scientific research in biotechnology (fungal genomics), ranking first. Additionally, he received the Egyptian State Award for Agricultural Scientific Excellence from ASRT, Egypt in 2022 with a silver medal.



Salah M. Abdel-Momen received his Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from Texas A&M University through a US-AID grant and completed a postdoctoral program at the University of Maryland Department of Molecular Genetics. He returned to Egypt to work as a researcher at the Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, where he helped establish a laboratory for molecular plant pathology with colleagues, which assisted senior and junior colleagues in manipulating molecular tools and techniques in plant disease diagnosis and plant microbe interaction. As he continued to work at the Agricultural Research Center, he was responsible for a variety of tasks, including conducting plant disease research and overseeing multiple master's theses and Ph.D. dissertations until he was elevated to the level of professor. As a trainee or trainer, he took part in many programs at the American University in Cairo and Chicago State University in the fields of advanced management, report writing, technology evaluation and transfer, and intellectual property rights. This is in addition to other extension and on-farm training programs on various crops in most Egyptian governorates. Such activities provided him with expertise and a broad view of agricultural challenges in Egypt, allowing him to become the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research and president of the Egyptian Society of Plant Pathology. This experience also aided his appointment to several administrative positions, including Deputy Director of the Plant Pathology Research Institute for Training and Extension, Vice President of the Agricultural Research Center, President of the Agricultural Research Center, and the Egypt's minister of agriculture and lands reclamation from 2012 to 2013. Serving in these positions exposed and enabled him to get a broad understanding of agricultural problems and output, as well as to participate in plans for developing and sustaining agriculture.