Mansour Ali Haseeb

Professor
Mansour Ali Haseeb
منصور علي حسيب
Haseeb addressing the WHO's General Council after receiving the Shousha Prize in 1973
Born1 January 1910
Al Gitaina, Sudan
Died29 September 1973(1973-09-29) (aged 63)
Omdurman, Sudan
Other namesGodfather of Sudan's Laboratory Medicine[1]
EducationKitchener School of Medicine
AwardsShousha Prize, WHO
Order of the Star of Ethiopia
Order of Merit, United Arab Republic
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Khartoum
Stack Medical Research Laboratories
Director of the Stack Medical Research Laboratories
In office
1952–1963
PresidentSovereignty Council (1956–1958)
Ibrahim Abboud
Preceded byRobert Kirk
Succeeded byMohamed 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.

  1. ^ "Prof Haseeb: Godfather Of Sudan's Laboratory Medicine". Sudanow Magazine. Archived from the original on 2022-12-05. Retrieved 2022-12-05.