Professor Mansour Ali Haseeb | |
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منصور علي حسيب | |
Born | 1 January 1910 Al Gitaina, Sudan |
Died | 29 September 1973 Omdurman, Sudan | (aged 63)
Other names | Godfather of Sudan's Laboratory Medicine[1] |
Education | Kitchener School of Medicine |
Awards | Shousha Prize, WHO Order of the Star of Ethiopia Order of Merit, United Arab Republic |
Scientific career | |
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Institutions | University of Khartoum Stack Medical Research Laboratories |
Director of the Stack Medical Research Laboratories | |
In office 1952–1963 | |
President | Sovereignty Council (1956–1958) Ibrahim Abboud |
Preceded by | Robert Kirk |
Succeeded by | Mohamed Hamad Satti |
Mansour Ali Haseeb FRCP FRCPh (Arabic: منصور علي حسيب; 1 January 1910 – 29 September 1973) was a Sudanese professor of microbiology and parasitology.
Haseeb was born into a family of scholars. He graduated with a diploma from the Kitchener School of Medicine and continued his studies in the United Kingdom, obtaining a Diploma in Bacteriology. Haseeb worked in different medical institutions in Sudan before being appointed Director of the Stack Medical Research Laboratories. Further, he became the first Sudanese Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Khartoum and chairman of the Sudan Medical Research Council.
Haseeb made valuable contributions through his services in vaccine production and implementation programs. In addition, he championed medical research in Sudan to the extent that he is remembered as the "Godfather of Sudan's Laboratory Medicine".
Haseeb also was the Mayor of Omdurman and died suddenly aged 63, shortly after receiving the Shousha Prize from the World Health Organization.