Prof. Mohammed Abdel Samiea, Assiut University President met Dr. Hazem  Sharaf and Dr. Samir Rabiea, members of the Technical Support and Follow-Up Committee for Laboratories Accreditation Projects, an affiliate of the Ministry of Higher Education. The visit comes within the framework of the periodical activity undertaken by the committee to check the progress and achievements in the executive plan of the laboratories Accreditation Project.    Prof. Abdel Samiea expressed his readiness to provide all possible means and facilities to improve and develop the university’s laboratories. He also indicated his satisfaction with the achievement done by the university being the first university in Egypt to have two of its labs; Molecular Biology Lab and Analytical Chemistry Unit accredited. Besides, the university ranks first among Egyptian Universities with the number of accredited Faculties (Engineering, Science, Pharmacy, Medicine, Vet. Medicine, and Agriculture).        On their part, the Committee members hailed the mutual cooperation between the University Administration and Development Projects Management Unit, Ministry of Higher Education and expressed their satisfaction with the support and facilities provided by the university for Faculties and Labs applying for Accreditation. Prof. Mahmoud Abdel Nasser, Director of the University’s Project Management Unit indicated that this visit is a follow up visit to check the progress achieved in three projects: Centre for Testing the Technical Efficiency and Qualifying for Accreditation, Faculty of Science, and this is the central lab which will undertake the responsibility of following and enhancing all university labs applying for accreditation. The second project concerns Laboratory of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, and this laboratory cares for the diagnosis of poisoning cases and is being prepared to be accredited and become a research lab providing technical consultations in the field. And, the third project visited is the center for blood transfusion, South Egypt Cancer Institute. Prof. Abdel – Nasser also indicated that during the visit, they signed two contracts for two more laboratories in the Faculty of Medicine and South Egypt Cancer Institute.