Dr. Hassan Lotfi Fahmy, Prof. and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University won the best research Prize for a his research on the use of a new technique for the treatment of cataracts.  Dr. Fahmy's paper was selected out of 800 research works on the same issue in the conference of the American Society for cataract and corneal refractive defects surgeries held in New Orleans, USA. This technique, Dr. Fahmy says, is based on the use of eye-drops for the treatment of cataracts in their early phases as a substitute for surgeries. He added that the eye-drops has already been manufactured in the Scientific Center of Distinction, Faculty of Science by the use of nano-technology under the supervision of Prof. Nagwa Abul-Maali, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science, Assiut University.