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The Middle Eastern Association for Cancer Research





Building Scientific Bridges across the larger Middle-East


Join us in our next annual meeting

Please stay tuned for upcoming announcements about our 14th annual meeting

Our Services

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ABS Research Review & Consultation 

We offer high quality and timely evaluations as peer review to journal editors, grant assessments for researchers and granting agencies as well as the academic record for academic institutions aspiring to climb the ranks.

ABS Research Reviews


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Annual Meeting
 The MEACR holds a scientific annual meeting in a different Middle-Eastern or North African country each year, in collaboration with a local university, in order to shed light on the latest findings and cancer related breakthroughs in that country and more importantly to build collaborative bridges with other researchers in the world.

Online Community 

This future expansion aims to disseminate knowledge in cancer research via providing video tutorials on important techniques, as well as provide a scientific discussion platform to share knowledge within our community.

Past MEACR Meetings


The MEACR officially started its activities with its first executive committee meeting at Aleppo, Syria, in 2010, in collaboration with Aleppo University. Since then, our journey allowed us to shed light on several amazing universities throughout the Middle East and North Africa. However, in light of political unrest in addition to the recent COVID19 outbreak, our mission to hold annual meetings at different universities was interrupted and forced us eventually to move online.

2010

The first MEACR Executive Meeting in Aleppo, Syria, in collaboration with Aleppo University.

2011 

The first MEACR annual meeting was held at Tanta, Egypt, in collaboration with Tanta University.

2012

The 2nd MEACR annual meeting was held in collaboration with Sfax Biotechnology Center in Sfax, Tunisia.

2013

The 3rd MEACR annual meeting was held in Rabat, Morocco, at Mohamed V University.

2014

The 4th MEACR annual meeting was held in Marrakech, Morocco, in collaboration with Cadi Ayyad University.

 2015

The 5th MEACR annual meeting was held in Gaziantep, Turkey, in collaboration with Gaziantep University.

2016

The 6th MEACR annual meeting was held in collaboration with Qatar University in Doha, Qatar.

2017

The 7th MEACR annual meeting was held again in Gaziantep, Turkey at Gaziantep University.

2018

The 8th MEACR annual meeting was held at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman.

2019

the 9th MEACR annual meeting was held at Qatar University in collaboration with the Health Cluster of QU.

2020

The 10th MEACR annual meeting was held online in collaboration with Health Cluster of Qatar University.

2021

Due to continuing travel restrictions due to COVID, the 11th annual meeting was held online in collaboration with Qatar University.

2022

The 12th annual meeting was held at Casablanca, Morocco, in collaboration with Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences & the Moroccan Cancer Society.

2023

The 13th annual meeting was held at Sousse, Tunisia, in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine of Sousse University.

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2024

This year the 14th annual meeting is scheduled to be held at Alexandria, Egypt, in collaboration with Alexandria University.

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2025

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