Cairo – Mubasher: Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Imperial College London and the chairman of Aswan Heart Center’s (AHC) board Magdi Yacoub has inaugurated the Mounir Armanious Research Centre (MARC) last Sunday.

The MARC is expected to be the largest pharmaceutical sciences centre in Egypt, Cairo Scene reported.

Yacoub said that the MARC will provide patients with diagnoses for several diseases and will also develop foreign pharmaceuticals until it is possible to produce wholly-made Egyptian pharmaceuticals, according to the online platform.

The research centre has nearly 80 pharmacists and chemist researchers that seek to attest new pharmaceutical researches, chairman of EVA Pharma Company and founder of the MARC Riad Armanios said.

For her part, Laila Gad, director of the MARC, noted that the centre is qualified with the latest drug-making technology necessary for producing numerous kinds of medications, including tablets, capsules, and plasters.

In the same vein, Yacoub unveiled that the board of trustees of Magdi Yacoub Foundation (MYF) was considering opening a branch for AHC in the New Administrative Capital, Egypt Independent reported.

It is worth noting that the AHC was founded in 2009 in Aswan to combat heart disease in Egypt.