Habiba Bouhamed Chaabouni
Habiba Bouhamed Chaabouni is professor of medical genetics at Tunis University.
Quotes
edit- I fulfilled a childhood dream of understanding how life started and how all human beings are eternal.
- I then look into the technical problems of the diagnostic laboratory in consultation with my medical and technical biologist colleagues.
- In the afternoon, when I have a lesson to teach, I do it, otherwise I am in the research laboratory at the medical school, which is 300 meters from the hospital department. In this laboratory, I carry out most of my research activity and monitor the work of the students I supervise.
- I have other activities that I may be called upon to undertake, such as participation in the work of commissions or juries. And of course I regularly participate in scientific meetings both nationally and internationally.
- To the entire Futura-Sciences team Futura-Sciences is a portal that I already knew well before it dedicated a section to me on the occasion of the UNESCO-L'OREAL prize.
- Type Sciences or ethics or disease or human in the Google search engine for example and you are sure to have a complete scientific file, well documented and even a discussion forum.
- At a time when websites are flourishing so strongly, we need serious, effective portals to really be a scientific reference for young people and even professionals. Futura-Sciences is one in my opinion.
- It is an honour especially since in this category, I actually represent Africa. To this date, I remain the only member from the African continent to bear this title.
- Is to succeed my master and founder of the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, the late Professor Amor Chadli.
- I saw mothers that had two or three children with a serious and incurable genetic pathology. Such encounters made a strong impression on me and underscored the need for better care for genetic disorders.
- I opted to specialize in medical genetics, a decision that caused much confusion within the medical fraternity.
- To many of them, the study of medical genetics sounded like a luxury, and the idea of a medical doctor conducting research was far too radical.
