Father of five, entrepreneur at heart, and scientist in the laboratory, Dr. Omar Shoukry Sakr is the founder and CEO of Nawah-Scientific, an Egyptian cloud lab for on-demand scientific services, and Africa’s biggest online destination to outsource scientific experiments in the fields of natural and biomedical sciences.
Recently, Nawah Scientific received accreditation from the United States Food and Drug Administration (US-FDA) for food analysis and safety through the Laboratory Accreditation for Analyses of Foods Program.
Says Dr. Sakr: “Accreditation reduces costs by half and accelerates analysis time by nine-tenths for Egyptian exports which need sample analysis abroad”
According to Sakr, Nawah Scientific plans to expand into Nigeria and South Africa in the coming months, bringing the benefits of greatly reduced time and cost for food analysis to both countries.
The startup will require approval from local regulators in Nigeria (the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration – NAFDAC) and South Africa (National Department of Health – Food Control).
According to Rania Al-Mashat (Egypt’s Minister of International Cooperation): “The government supports the expansion of Egyptian startups regionally and globally.”
Dr. Sakr is a pharmacist by education and holds a PhD in pharmaceutical technology from the University of Geneva, and an MBA from HULT business school in London. His career extends over 18 years of experience in the pharmaceutical field, both in academia and industry. His workplaces include Egypt, Switzerland and Germany.