Journal of Rare Diseases - About the Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Neveen Soliman, MD, PhD, Kasr Al Ainy Medical School, Cairo University, Egypt

Neveen A. Soliman is a Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology at Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University. She is the founder and director of the Egyptian Group for Orphan Renal Diseases (EGORD). She is currently the Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Egyptian Genome Project (EGP) and a member of the Medical Research Council at Academy of Scientific Research and Technology.

Prof. Soliman's main research interest is understanding and unraveling the genetic basis of chronic kidney diseases. Her research work is primarily focused on clinical and molecular characterization of monogenic kidney diseases. She has extensive experience in the assessment of patients with rare and inherited kidney diseases and the application of genetic and genomic analysis. Also, she is regularly involved in rare and genetic kidney disease education and training. Prof. Soliman is a member of several nephrology and genetics scientific societies and serves on the advisory council of some rare disease foundations. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications many of them in high-ranking journals.