From left to right, the award recipients Mayyas Osman, Layan Helmi, Dr. Salem al-Naeemi, Dr. Nada al-Darra, and Dr. Rashid Benlamri, at the award ceremony. (Credit: Vision Makers Photography)
Focusing on industrial wastewater treatment, the awarded project aims to eliminate heavy metals, such as lead, and industrial dyes using tomato leaves. These are used as a natural adsorbent capable of purifying water from chemical contaminants that threaten human and animal health.Supervised by Dr. Nada al-Darra, director of the nutrition and dietetics department at the Arab University of Beirut and a professor in food safety, Layan Helmi, a biotechnology PhD student, and Mayyas Osman, a master's student in food analysis and safety, excelled in the postgraduate category of the Arab Youth Competition, organized by the Center of Excellence for Food Security and Sustainability at the University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST), in partnership with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and the Ministry of...
Focusing on industrial wastewater treatment, the awarded project aims to eliminate heavy metals, such as lead, and industrial dyes using tomato leaves. These are used as a natural adsorbent capable of purifying water from chemical contaminants that threaten human and animal health.Supervised by Dr. Nada al-Darra, director of the nutrition and dietetics department at the Arab University of Beirut and a professor in food safety, Layan Helmi, a biotechnology PhD student, and Mayyas Osman, a master's student in food analysis and safety, excelled in the postgraduate category of the Arab Youth Competition, organized by the Center of Excellence for Food Security and Sustainability at the University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST), in partnership with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and the Ministry of...