Colleague Yaser A. M. Abdel-Karem at the Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo, has won one of the top awards of the faculty in the field of natural products: the "McNeil Award in Natural Products Chemistry". Dr. Yaser A. M. Abdel-Karem, Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University. The ceremony took place on Friday, May 2nd, 2014. Source: Egyptian Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs in Canada.